GPapenb: What are you talking about, I didn't say one word about electronic records. He didn't ask what is stored ELECTRONICALLY on an international passport, and he didn't say "ePassport". I gave him a link to biometric passport info if that is what he wanted.
I talked about stamps, visas, etc. These are placed on an international passport. This is "information recorded or kept on an international passport"
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From the question I assume you do not mean personal identifying info but if you do I'll provide a link, that varies from nation to nation. You may find some info about your question at that link also. I'll also include links for machine readable and biometric.
If required, visas are just about always included in the passport. They may be a stamp or a sticker applied to the passport or even a separate document (tourist card, for example) stapled in place; depends on the country.
Generally any time you pass through a passport control point your passport is at least read so there's a record. But even that may not always happen. If you are entering most countries you will get an entry stamp or exit stamp. If a visa is required you almost certainly will get that at least.
I know that US CIS will also make notes in the passport by the visa or stamps, if you have some exception or have been denied entry they make an entry to show why you were denied. If they see an overstay they will make note of that for sure.
Looking back at my passport, sometimes they write things like the flight number you are leaving or arriving on, even a note about what you are bringing in (alcohol for example). But for the most part it's an entry or exit stamp. IF you put it all together it would show your overall travels but not necessarily every single trip.
Once you are in schengen Europe for example you'd typically have only a single entry stamp and maybe an exit stamp from another country and no record of your internal movements.
Ground transits at the Mexican and Canadian border may have changed in the past few years but passports aren't typically required and aren't stamped by those nations, and a US passport isn't required and wouldn't be stamped for reentry into the US most of the time. Again, taht may be changing or have changed, but a lot of that traffic is "day traffic" and gets handled differently.What information is kept or recorded on an international passport?What a bunch of bullshit must I read here!
The informations stored on an e-passport are only those established by the issuing country; nobody is able to "ADD ON" electronic information to a passport nor is anybody able to change any electronic information on a passport.
Therefore travel histories, visas issued, or illegal overstays may not be detected based on the electronic chip on your passport.
They may however be detected since most countries issue machine readable passports (allready since about 1990/2000) and the data may be compared to other data bases. This is frequently done in Europe where passports are scanned against the Schengen Information System (SIS) which is a database covering felons and other unworranted persons. It will be shortly expended by the Visa Information System (VIS) which will also inclide the data of Schengen visa applicants and the reasons for visa denial.
The United States are adopting a similar system but it does not mean they are able to add data to the passport, they may just read out data.
Source(s):
http://www.mfa.gov.hu/NR/rdonlyres/172EA鈥?/a>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Inform鈥?/a>
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