piighost/us-passport

US passport number, one uppercase letter then eight digits. Noisy by nature: any reference code of that shape matches, for example an invoice number. Pair it with a whitelist, or keep it for documents where a passport is expected.

Label: US_PASSPORT

Pattern

\b[A-Z]\d{8}\b

Must be caught

• Passport C12345678 expires in 2031. → C12345678
• Travel document: X98765432 → X98765432

Must be left alone

• C123456789
• c12345678

Tags: us, government-id, identity

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Used by

• piighost/passports — Passport numbers for the ten countries the registry covers.
• piighost/us-extended — The `us` group plus passport, EIN and bank routing numbers.

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