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List of passports

Summary

A passport is a booklet issued by countries to their citizens, permitting the person to travel to other countries. In some cases countries issue travel documents similar to passports to their residents. International organizations also issue travel documents, usually called laissez-passer, to their staff. This article shows images of the various passports currently issued.

Contemporary ordinary passports edit

 
Colors of ordinary passport covers across the world

Special cases edit

Passports where the captioned country is shown in italics are issued either by territories with extremely limited recognition of their passports or by states that are neither member states of the United Nations nor United Nations non-member observer states.

However, even though Taiwan maintains official diplomatic relations with only 14 countries, its "Republic of China (Taiwan) Passport" is still accepted as a valid travel document in most countries of the world. Although its passport enjoys (for nationals with rights of abode in Taiwan) visa-free (or visa on arrival access) status in 137 countries, ranking the ordinary Taiwanese passport 29th in the world (tied with Uruguay) according to the Visa Restrictions Index,[1] some countries, such as Argentina, Brazil, the People's Republic of China (PRC), Jamaica and Mauritius, pursuant to their positions on Taiwan's political status, refuse to visé or stamp Taiwan passports, and instead issue visas on a separate travel document or a separate piece of paper to Taiwanese travellers to avoid conveying any kind of recognition to Taiwan as a polity distinct from the People's Republic of China (PRC).

Africa edit

 

North and Central America edit

 

South America edit

 

Asia edit

 

Europe edit

 

Oceania edit

 

International organizations and sovereign subjects of international law edit

Contemporary diplomatic passports edit

Types edit

 
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Special passports edit

Not granting a right of abode edit

Certain passports do not, without additional endorsement, confer the right of abode anywhere and have varying international acceptance for travel:

Travel documents issued to non-nationals edit

Common design passport groups edit

 
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See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Global Ranking - Visa Restriction Index 2016" (PDF). Henley & Partners. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 March 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
  2. ^ PRADO documentation for British National (Overseas) passports accessed 14 March 2016
  3. ^ PRADO documentation for British Subject passports accessed 14 March 2016

External links edit

  Media related to Passports at Wikimedia Commons

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