The Somaliland passport (Somali: Baasaboorka Somaliland, Arabic: جواز سفر صوماليلاندي) is the passport issued to citizens of the unrecognized country of Somaliland for international travel.[2][3][4] A passport was issued for the first time in 1996, and a biometric passport was in 2014, in line with new global standards and the requirements of the International Civil Aviation Organization.
Somaliland Passport Baasaboorka Somaliland (Somali) جواز سفر صوماليلاندي (Arabic) | |
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Type | Passport |
Issued by | Somaliland Immigration[1] |
First issued | 1996 (first version) 14 September 2014 (biometric version) |
Purpose | Identification |
Eligibility | Somalilander citizenship |
Expiration | 5 years |
Cost | $110 for Somaliland National ID holders. |
The color of the Somaliland passport is black, and it bears the symbol of the state's sovereignty. It also bears the following inscriptions in the Somali, Arabic and English languages:.
Above:
"Republic of Somaliland" (Somali: JAMHUURIYADDA SOMALILAND) (Arabic: الجمهورية صومالي لاند)
In the center: there is the Emblem of Somaliland
Below: «Passport» (Somali: BAASABOOR) (Arabic: جواز سفر)
Notably, the three-letter code used in Somaliland passports to represent the country and nationality is RSL, which is, understandably, absent from the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 list of country codes.
Citizens with a Somaliland travel document can go to the following countries:
There are a number of types of Somaliland passports: