I have an Indian passport, which has given trouble scanning in different places. However, the data was entered manually by the officer, whenever it failed to scan. On examining closely, I noticed that its MRZ format is different. Typically, passports have 2 x 44 characters. But my passport has 2 x 42 characters. I looked everywhere to see if such a format exists. Please let me know if you're aware of such a format. FYI: The document is legit and was issued recently. 

Also, please let me know if it may pose problems in international travel, especially to the US.

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Just wanted to give some more context here. 

The passport with bad MRZ has a valid visa. The visa itself has a MRZ which looks good. In that case, what would be your recommendation on the following actions?

1. Should I get a new passport with non faulty MRZ? In that case, when I travel, I will travel with 2 passports; The old passport will have a faulty MRZ but valid visa. And the new passport will have a non faulty / valid MRZ.

2. Should I not bother applying for a new passport as I already have a valid visa on the current passport (with non scanable MRZ)? In which case, I will just continue to use my current passport with valid visa as is.