On Monday 17 January 2011 08:27:46 John M. Steele wrote: > I have not tried this (I plan to next time) but several USMA members have > pointed out that if you fill in the form by hand, there is no problem > submitting height in meters or centimeters. The data does not appear on > the passport in any case, it is only tucked away in government files.
Besides specifying that height be in meters, the form should also be amended to allow passport photos in the most common size, which IIRR is 30 mm × 40 mm, though there are several countries besides the USA with idiosyncratic requirements about photos. One (I don't remember which) requires that the head be turned at 45° to the camera's view line. > I also note that they require "American style" dates (mm/dd/yyyy) which > they transpose on the passport to an internalional style dd mmm yyyy, with > an alpha month abbreviation. My recollection is that "landing cards" > require dd/mm/yyyy (I think filling it out wrong is your admission ticket > to the "Americans only" passport line on re-entry). Should we also push > for official use of ISO8601? Yes. Three-letter month abbreviations can be incomprehensible or even misleading between languages. The month whose name in Finnish begins "mar" is November. Pierre -- La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre. Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.
