Us Passport Numbers

[kid]

I got my first passport in 1985 I renewed it in 1995 and again in 2005 each time I was given a different Passport number seems a little strange. I would think that they would want to be able to track you and have the Passport number remain the same also when I renewed in 2005 I requested a 48 page passport double the size of the normal one All I had to do to get it was put a letter in with my App asking for the bigger passport another strange thing no Mag strip or Bar code in the most recent one Just wondering why ? Any one know ?

Edited September 2, 2005 by kid

[Maestro]

I got my first passport in 1985 I renewed it in 1995 and again in 2005 each time I was given a different Passport number seems a little strange.

That’s a little like turning in an old bank note that’s no longer valid and asking for a new one with the same serial number.

I would think that they would want to be able to track you and have the Passport number remain the same

Don’t you worry! If they want to find you, they will.

also when I renewed in 2005 I requested a 48 page passport double the size of the normal one All I had to do to get it was put a letter in with my App asking for the bigger passport another strange thing no Mag strip or Bar code in the most recent one Just wondering why ? Any one know ?

If with “no Mag strip or Bar code” you are saying that your new passport is not machine-readable, it could be that when switching to machine-readable passports they decided to produce only the smaller size. Switzerland did this, for example.

Whether Britain already issues machine-readable passports according to the international standard, I do not know. To the best of my knowledge, it is a line or two of machine-readable text on the fist page that is required, not a magnetic strip or a bar code.

[kid]

That’s a little like turning in an old bank note that’s no longer valid and asking for a new one with the same serial number.

Maestro,

I kinda understand where you are going with this but Califorina and most other states I will bet Keep the same Drivers Licence number so thats why I wondered about the PP numbers.

I took a look at my passport and I do see the 2 lines on the bottom of the first page you are referring to.

Thanks

Edited September 2, 2005 by kid

[meelousee]

That’s a little like turning in an old bank note that’s no longer valid and asking for a new one with the same serial number.

Maestro,

I kinda understand where you are going with this but Califorina and most other states I will bet Keep the same Drivers Licence number so thats why I wondered about the PP numbers.

I took a look at my passport and I do see the 2 lines on the bottom of the first page you are referring to.

Thanks

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Just because I know,

Why the different numbers it would seem logical you would want to track or keep in touch with the individual.

State =VS= FED this is sadly the real case. Your passport should be the same as your SOCSEC number and DL.

The USG printing shop decided long ago that the programmed numbers would follow suite of the following... I wrote it.

open files

read files

open records

read records

number=number=plus 1

else next record.

Without going into silly detail all this means is that the printing office that made the passports add a 1 to the next new document. Like the statements here if you turn in an old note and want that notes number to be the same it cant be done. BUT

Lets say you have a 1000 dollar note that number is 1957, and you have a 500 note with 1957 these two notes are worth a fortune if you can find them, so the US printing office realized this so they did the above but with money they but added leading zeros so that all note had the same number of digits, eight, with of course two letters designating press and mint.

Should you just happen to have a four digit note with the numbers of 1957, any note 2, 5,10,50 or 100 (no leading zeros) no matter the mint or printer we can make millions on the sale of both notes.

this note is worth 15k market price. This is the catch if your US passport form 1919 is 1957 and this note is presented with it the collector will pay 100,000 times the face value

Your passport number is unique to all other ever and I mean EVER printed if you find a duplicate call me I know exactly how to capitalize on it. we will dance even in the dark in piles of money!

[astral]

UK passports work the same way.

New Passport, new number everytime and the number is printed all

through the passport. Makes it easier for the clerk issuing the document

as he picks the next one off the pile and types or scans in the number.

It also means that if the system is being fiddled, they can check who was issued

a particular batch of numbers; which clerk, which embassy, MI6 etc.

Edited September 3, 2005 by astral

[Maestro]

The picture of that 10,000 dollar bill doesn’t show very clearly on my computer screen. Would you mind terribly sending me the original by courier?

[Maestro]

I kinda understand where you are going with this but Califorina and most other states I will bet Keep the same Drivers Licence number

There are fewer security concerns with drivers licences, which just about anybody can print.

Passports, like bank notes, have to meet a much higher security standard, for which reason they are printed centrally with the serial numbers already stamped – sometimes even punched – on the documents, then shipped out in batches to the hundreds of places authorised to issue passports.