Is the country code for "U.A.E." in a passport "ARE"?

2/23/2015 12:06:01 PM

“ARE” is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code and the NATO 3 letter code for the UAE. This means that yes, “ARE” is the country code in UAE passports.

2/23/2015 8:39:01 AM

ARE is indeed the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for United Arab Emirates. These are the codes used for machine readable passports as defined by ICAO. Looking at the wikipedia page showing the format used for machine readable passports you can see that the ISO 3166-1 codes are used both to identify the issuing country as well as the nationality of the passport holder. So your cousin’s passport seems to be correct.

For completeness sake note that ARE is also the NATO 3-letter code for United Arab Emirates.

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