What information does an U.S. passport store?

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heatgun

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Let me start the story,
I was born in Holland but I am NOT a Holland citizen, I am citizen of another country which requires EVERY MAN, no matter what age you are and where you live you will have to serve in army for two years which isnt option for me, I've been living in U.S for over 5 years and I have a life here, I am about to send my n400 package and request name change but I was wondering what information does an US passport store? I know it doesnt have father name, mother name, other citizenships in print but what about in electronic section? what info will custom see when they scan US passport on their screen?
Only way for me to visit my home country is carry US passport with different last name and first name, birth of place already going to be different since I was born in NL but one of my friend told me that even if my birth name, last name arent on US passport, they will be in electronic chip and custom will be able to see when they scan it when I entry my country. can anyone confirm this?
thank you!!
 
The claim is that the chip contains only what is on the bio page of the passport. It won't contain your other names or anything. In Turkey (I'm assuming you're Turkish), there's no way they can see anything else than what is in your passport.
 
cafeconleche said:
The claim is that the chip contains only what is on the bio page of the passport. It won't contain your other names or anything. In Turkey (I'm assuming you're Turkish), there's no way they can see anything else than what is in your passport.
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one of my friend is from Turkey and he paid like $10k to government then got away with military service but in Azerbaijan you have to go and serve in two years with no other option.
I have never given my fingerprints back in my country for anything, there was no need for fingerprint back in days so is there any way for them to find out that I am same person just by looking and scanning at US passport?
 
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Oh, you're from Azerbaijan. I highly doubt they can figure out who you are if your name is different, and your place of birth is different. I'm wondering, though, if they will see that you LOOK Azeri and try to figure out some other way that you skipped out on conscription. I don't know how serious passport control in Azerbaijan is. Plus, I don't think your fingerprints are in the chip either. It seems you could get away with this.
 
They can check the visa stamps in your passport that show where you have been. However, you do not get a passport stamp of the country belongs to you.
 
jackpeterson said:
They can check the visa stamps in your passport that show where you have been. However, you do not get a passport stamp of the country belongs to you.
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My original question was if custom or immigration in other country (other than US) can see your other citizenships or born name, other names that we used before requested name change on N400
 
If you can get a visa to your country that probably means that they don't have much information on you. So I wouldn't worry.
 
No they cannot get that information by scanning your US passport.

heatgun said:
My original question was if custom or immigration in other country (other than US) can see your other citizenships or born name, other names that we used before requested name change on N400
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