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Colombian passport

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Issued by
  
Colombia

Purpose
  
Identification

Type of document
  
Passport

Eligibility requirements
  
Colombian citizenship

Colombian passport

Date first issued
  
September 2015 (biometric passport booklet)

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, Uruguay and Venezuela. For these countries, they may use just their domestic identification cards called Cédula de Ciudadanía.

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

    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.

    References

    Colombian passport Wikipedia
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