Comment by jkaplowitz

My understanding is that the EU sanctions themselves do care about place of birth, separately from citizenship, not just Apple’s implementation. I’ve certainly seen such a question in non-Apple implementations of these sanctions.

As for not supporting eID, yeah that isn’t great, but so many people have non-electronic EU residence permits (including me within the last few years - though I don’t have Russian origin or citizenship) that they’d have to support the non-eID flow regardless. Maybe they wanted one fewer flow to implement, or maybe they felt that eID verification didn’t meet their compliance needs. No idea there.