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What's on your passport?

Back in 1980 when I applied for an Aussie passport, I received a phone call from the passport office asking what I wanted listed as "Place of Birth". On their advice I opted for "Little Aden" as they suggested that its "obscurity" might pose less of a problem than "Yemen" or any permutation containing "Arabia" for entry into some countries, in particular Israel which I had suggested I might want to visit "one day". My British passport just lists "Aden", again with no actual country specified.

So, I was wondering what others of you had on your passports and whether, particularly in recent years, this had caused you any issues at various border controls around the planet.

Re: What's on your passport?

I'm lucky - my passport shows Abadan as Place of Birth and noone has questioned it until I stopped off in Dubai recently! And even then it was just polite interest about this white guy being born "just up the Gulf". I think that most Immigration Officers must just think that it's a spelling mistake and should be Aderdeen!! If they think about it at all.

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