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Update in July 2022: The passport machine readable zone (MRZ) calculator now permits gender to be unspecified.
Name Description Source Format Template Tag Length P/C
Track 2 Equivalent Data Contains the data elements of track 2 according to ISO/IEC 7813, excluding start sentinel, end sentinel, and Longitudinal Redundancy Check (LRC), as follows: Primary Account Number (n, var. up to 19) Field Separator (Hex 'D') (b) Expiration Date (YYMM) (n 4) Service Code (n 3) Discretionary Data (defined by individual payment systems) (n, var.) Pad with one Hex 'F' if needed to ensure whole bytes (b) ICC b 70 or 77 57 0–19 primitive

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