Colombian passport
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The front cover of a contemporary Colombian biometric passport.
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| Date first issued | September 2015 (biometric passport booklet) |
| Issued by |  Colombia |
| Type of document | Passport |
| Purpose | Identification |
| Eligibility requirements | Colombian citizenship |
The Colombian passport is a travel document which is issued to citizens of Colombia for the purpose of international travel. Since September 2015 a Biometric passport has been introduced. The previous machine-readable version can be used as long as it is valid.
Citizens of Colombia do not need a passport when traveling to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. For these countries, they may use just their domestic identification cards called "CÉDULA DE CIUDADANÍA".[citation needed]
Several drivers resulted in the issuing of the document:
- The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) issued Resolution No. A36-15 in which it urged its 190 member countries to issue readable passports from 2010. The intent of this resolution was to ensure security and integrity of travel documents worldwide.
- Increased safety: The new book has special design features, and print materials that correspond to three levels of security.
- Allowing quick migration processes: the machine-readable zone facilitates the process of recognition and registration of the passenger when entering or leaving a country, because a machine automatically interprets the information encoded in their passport, which reduces approximately 50% on-call time by immigration agents.
Visa requirements
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In 2016, Colombian citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 103 countries and territories, ranking the Colombian passport 50th in the world according to the Visa Restrictions Index.
See also
External sources
- Machine-Readable Passport, Conozca el Pasaporte de Lectura Mecanica
- Colombia.com, Guia para los colombianos en el exterior
- [1], previous Colombian Passport
- [2], current Colombian Passport
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1 A) Includes Crown Dependencies, British Overseas Territories, and former British plantations, crown colonies, colonies, protectorates, protected states, mandates, trust territories and other British possessions. 2 Open border with Schengen Area. 3 Partially recognized. 4 Not recognized by any other state. 5 Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China |
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