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Old Nov 2, 2015 | 11:12 am
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Originally Posted by worldiswide
I know it changes and I understand it's not my number.. but why is that? How long have passports been around? Did the early ones have numbers? It's just seems like a better control to associate something like a number with a person over time. How are the previous numbers cross referenced to the new one..seems like that needs to be done to know where someone has been.. what info is used to make the match. Is identity verification part of the renewal..
Problem is, if the passport is lost/stolen, and the number is associated with the person, not the document, then you've got (a) two passports out there with the same number, and (b) no obvious way to tell which one is the valid one.
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