Your passport chip provides the same information that is presented on the photo page of your passport. That includes your name and date of birth, as well as a higher quality version of your photo. When we store your passport details in your Yoti account, we also tag them with how they were obtained (read from the chip, or just from a photo taken by your phone’s camera). This is because the chip also contains a digital signature which proves the information is genuine and hasn’t been tampered with. For this reason, many organisations prefer to receive passport information that has been scanned from a chip, as they consider it more trustworthy.
Articles in this section
- What ID documents do you currently support?
- Do I need to add an ID document to use my Yoti?
- How do I scan my passport?
- What information is taken from my ID documents?
- Why do you want the information on my ID documents?
- What if Yoti doesn’t accept my ID document?
- My ID document has expired, can I still use Yoti?
- What if my Yoti photo doesn’t look like the photo on my ID document?
- Can I add more than one ID document type to my Yoti?
- Can I remove my original ID document and/or add a new one?