---
id: "be_passport"
kind: "pattern"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["pii", "persons"]
country: ["BE"]
langs: ["nl", "fr", "de"]
quality: 85
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/be_passport"
---

# Belgian passport number (`be_passport`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Number of a passport issued by Belgium, which FPS Foreign Affairs produces on request of a municipality or an embassy. It has eight characters, two letters followed by six digits, and no check digit. Microsoft Purview expects it without spaces or delimiters.

- Pattern of: `passport`
- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Personally identifiable information (pii), Person related (persons)
- Countries: Belgium (BE)
- Languages: Dutch (nl), French (fr), German (de)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[A-Z]{2}\d{6}$
```

## Examples

- `QX 417263` (invalid example) — Purview expects no spaces
- `Q4172635` (invalid example) — One letter and seven digits
- `QX41726` (invalid example) — Five digits

## Mappings

- fhir: `http://hl7.org/fhir/sid/passport-BEL`
- purview: `Belgium passport number`, `EU passport number`

## Supported by tools

- `awsglue`
- `microsoftpurview`
- `snowflake`

## Translations

- nl: Paspoortnummer
- fr: Numéro de passeport
- de: Reisepassnummer
- ru: Номер паспорта Бельгии: Номер бельгийского паспорта - две буквы и шесть цифр без пробелов.

## Sources

- doc: <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/sit-defn-belgium-passport-number>
- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_passport>

## Quality

Score 85/100. Missing: examples.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/be_passport.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/BE/persons/be_passport.yaml>