20/01/2022
15 Fun Facts about passport that probably you didn’t know:
1- If you do a Face tattoo or face surgery you will need to do a new passport
2-You can’t wear a uniform in your passport photo, Wearing hats, caps, sunglasses, and hair which is covering part of your face are not allowed
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3. You may get banned from boarding if your passport doesn’t have enough blank pages and You cannot use a valid passport to travel to many foreign countries if it expires within 3 or 6 months
4. The first passport was named in the Bible
5. It is possible to get a World Passport
6. Most of the world’s passports have a red cover
7. Citizens of the Vatican state in Italy (the smallest country in the world!) have their own country’s passports
8. There are millions of ‘stateless persons’ around the world
9. When the mummy of Ramses II was sent to France in the mid-1970s, it was actually issued a legal Egyptian passport
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10. There was an Iranian man who lived in an airport for 17 years due to failing to present a passport to French immigration officials.
11. The only person in the world who does not need to carry a passport when traveling abroad is the Queen Elizabeth II
12. Photographs were once not required.
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13. The exiled royals of the Austrian Hapsburg Monarchy were issued Austrian passports labeled: “valid for travel of all countries of the world except Austria.”
14. The Schengen Area is the area comprising 26 European countries that have abolished passport and any other type of border control at their common borders, essentially functioning as one country as far as travel
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15. Singapore and Japan take the top spot in the Henley Passport Index, offering its citizens visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to a record total of 190 destinations.
