Entering the US with mismatching birth country and city in passport

3/9/2017 11:18:00 AM

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.

3/8/2017 10:53:28 PM

If noticed, then yes, this could potentially trigger some extra questioning. However, assuming both countries have good relations with the US (read: are not Sudan or Somalia), it’s unlikely they would be denied entry over it. And realistically, given the knowledge of geography evinced by the average US immigration officer, I would be pretty surprised if they picked up on (say) “Brazzaville/Dem Rep Congo” or “Kinshasa/Rep Congo” as being wrong.

All that said, assuming this is a clerical error by the Norwegian passport authorities, I would advise her to get a replacement passport ASAP. This will ensure there are no issues, and they will do this free of charge if it’s their mistake.

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