Contemporary ordinary passports edit
Passports where the captioned country is shown in italics are issued by states that lack widespread recognition.
However, even though Taiwan maintains official relations with only 22 countries, its ROC 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, Jamaica and Mauritius, pursuant to their positions on Taiwan's political status, refuse to visé or stamp ROC 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 the ROC, or to Taiwan as a polity distinct from the People's Republic of China.
Africa edit
North America edit
South America edit
Asia edit
Europe edit
Oceania edit
International organizations and sovereign subjects of international law edit
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Sovereign Military Order of Malta
ordinary passports are only issued to three officials of the order: the Grand Master, the Deputy Grand Master, and the Chancellor
Contemporary diplomatic passports edit
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Queen's Messenger passport
Types edit
Special passports edit
- Camouflage passport
- Fake passport
- Green Book (Tibetan document)
- Hajj passport
- Pet passport
- World Passport
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:
- British National (Overseas) passport - GBO[3] is widely accepted for international travel
- British Subject passport - GBS[4] is widely accepted for international travel
- Tongan Protected Person passport has very limited travel acceptance
Travel documents issued to non-nationals edit
- 1951 Convention Travel Document
- 1954 Convention Travel Document
- Certificate of identity
- Interpol passport
- Laissez-passer (European Union, United Nations)
- Nansen passport
- Travel document
Common design passport groups edit
References edit
- ^ "Global Ranking - Visa Restriction Index 2016" (PDF). Henley & Partners. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
- ^ "Table of travel documents entitling the holder to cross the external borders and which may be endorsed with a visa". Council of the European Union. 17 June 2010. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
- ^ PRADO documentation for British National (Overseas) passports accessed 14 March 2016
- ^ PRADO documentation for British Subject passports accessed 14 March 2016
External links edit
Media related to Passports at Wikimedia Commons
Awaiting confirmation edit
No authoritative source has been found to show that these territories currently issue ordinary passports of their own: