The chances that someone both took a picture of the passport and read the NFC chip and saved it are pretty low.
You’re talking about accessing someone’s house here. I don’t know anyone that carries their passport around.
It’s something you’ll have to deal with anyway, since you cannot issue new passports to your entire population. Not to mention those people that don’t have one in the first place.
> But the fact they can do this means they do have those records.
They certainly have all the records somewhere. But do they have all of them in the same place?