Entering the US with mismatching birth country and city in passport
My girlfriend and I are planning to travel to the US this summer to visit her family that lives there. We are both Norwegian citizens, but she was a refugee from an African country, and when she recently renewed her passport, we noticed that the place of birth in the passport does not lie in the country of birth in the passport (but next to the border in a neighboring country). This was something that was not present in her previous passport.
Is this something that can cause problems for us when entering the US?
Best Answer
There may be perfectly legitimate reasons for such discrepancies. For example a city could belong to country A when a person was born, but later change to country B because of border adjustment or because country A was reformed/renamed/ceased to exist. So the fact that the place of birth in the passport does not lie in the country of birth in the passport is not a problem in itself.
What would be a problem is when the the place of birth or the country of birth is wrong. In this case, your friend should replace her passport and check the information in the passport carefully every time she gets a replacement. Using a passport which is known to contain incorrect data amounts to identity fraud, and stating that your friend didn't bother to check her passport when she received it would constitute a very poor defense.
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