Written Question·Home Office·UIN 22245
Passports: Biometrics
Tabled: 7 January 2025
Answered: 15 January 2025
Question
Clive Efford
Labour — Eltham and Chislehurst
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to update the technology required to read (a) diacritical characters and (b) accents marks in the biographical information of UK passport holders.
Answer
Seema MalhotraBritish passports meet the standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). While these standards permit the use of either diacritic marks or their transliteration, the number of countries that have adopted use of diacritics in their...
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