blue, with the words (DIPLOMATIC PASSPORT) and (SWEDEN) Identity information page The Swedish Passport includes the following printed data: Photo of Passport Holder Type (P) Code (SWE) Passport No. 1 Surname 2 Given Names 3 Nationality (SVENSK SWEDISH) 3a. Personal Id. No. 4 Date of Birth 4a. Height 5 Sex 6 Date of Issue 7 Date of Expiry 8 Place of Birth 9 Authority 10 Holder's Signature The information page ends with the Machine Readable Zone starting with P<SWE. In addition to this, the passport also has printed safeguards to make it easier to visually detect forgery attempts. Different spellings of the same name The name in the non-machine-readable zone is spelled as in the national population register, i.e. transliterated to Latin script if required. In the machine-readable zone, letters outside the A–Z range like å, ä or ö are mapped to digraphs, å becoming AA, ä becoming AE, and ö becoming OE. For example: Fältskog → FAELTSKOG. Letters with accents are replaced by simple letters (for example, é → E). Chip data The current series of passports contain an RFID chip with 16 data groups (DGs). DG1 – MRZ, mandatory DG2 – Face, mandatory DG3 – Finger, optional (Mandatory for EU Schengen and EU MS) DG4 – Iris, optional — DG14 – SecurityInfo, optional DG15 – Active authentication public key, optional SO – Security object, mandatory The security object contains signed hash values of all data groups. Correctly verifying this SOD with its PKI certificate hierarchy will tell that the passport is authentic and issued by the correct and valid issuer. Even the public available data (DG1, DG2, DG14, DG15, SO) in the chip requires decryption with a key printed in the machine-readable zone, which aims to prevent the chip from being read without the user's consent. Sweden started capturing and storing fingerprint data for new passport applications on 28 June 2009, as required by the European Union. Languages The data page/information page is printed in Swedish and English, with translation in other official languages of the European Union elsewhere in the document. The page containing the guide to check the security features of the data page is printed only in English. Identification requirements Application is done at passport offices (located in police stations) or embassies. The applicant must show up in person, and will have the photo taken there. When doing the application identification of the applicant is