As far as I know the modern syles of passport are scannable. If you noticed the customs official introduces the laminated page into a scanner. It is highly possible that the height/weight info is recorded in the code and becomes available only to the customs official for identification purposes. If this is correct the question becomes what units are they using when encoding the data. I would assume there is a high possibility that they use metric units for international compliance and then the computer at the US customs can display furlongs if that's what the operator understands. A. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 30 November, 2000 13:10 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:9457] RE: Passports On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:50:27 -0700, "Dennis Brownridge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >US passports, also English/French bilingual, no longer show height or mass. >However, my old 1976 passport said >height/taille: 6 feet/pieds 0 inches/pouces > >> -----Original Message----- >> > >> I have both British (EU) and Canadian passports. Neither shows height (or >> mass). >> >> Bill Potts, CMS UK passports don't show heights, but the application form asks for your height in metres. -- Chris KEENAN UK Metrication: http://www.metric.org.uk/ UK Correspondent, US Metric Association
