Talk:World Passport
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Is this passport accepted by USA and EU? Unsolicited 14:32, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
- Its not accepted by anyone. Spartaz 14:27, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
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Ratherhaveaheart 17:15, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
The author of the text below has written this excerpt with a particular political bent that opposes the fundamental and universal human right to freedom of movement. See the questions in CAPITAL letters within the text.
The World Passport is a document issued by the World Service Authority, a private (WHERE IS THE SOURCE FOR THIS?), non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., purportedly (THIS WORD CARRIES AN UNDERLYING EMPHASIS THAT IS POLITICALLY MOTIVATED) under the authority of Article 13, Section 2, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. World Passports have allegedly (THIS WORD CARRIES AN UNDERLYING EMPHASIS THAT IS POLITICALLY MOTIVATED) been implicitly accepted on a de facto, case-by-case basis by over 150 countries and, at one time or another, on an explicit, legal or de jure basis by Burkina Faso, Ecuador, Mauritania, Tanzania, Togo and Zambia. However, Burkina Faso withdrew its de jure recognition of World Passports in 1992(WHERE IS THE SOURCE FOR THIS STATEMENT?), and there is evidence going back to 1996 that Zambia has also withdrawn its recognition (WHERE IS THE SOURCE FOR THIS STATEMENT?). Procedures for verifying the identity of applicants are lax (WHERE IS THE SOURCE FOR THIS--THIS STATEMENT IS A VALUE-JUDGMENT), and passports issued by the World Service Authority have been mentioned in U.S. indictments for fraud and providing material support to terrorists (WHERE IS THE SOURCE FOR THIS). Canada[1], New Zealand[2], Switzerland[3] and the United States[4] (ONLY PARTS OF THESE GOVERNMENTS HAVE GUIDELINES ON THIS--THESE GUIDELINES DO NOT REFLECT THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT'S VIEWPOINT WHICH IS WHAT SEEMS TO BE STATED HERE. THIS IS NOT ACCURATE AS OTHER DEPARTMENTS OF THESE SAME GOVERNMENTS HAVE RECOGNIZED THE DOCUMENTS) have all stated that they do not recognize such documents because they are issued by a private organization, not a competent government authority, and thus do not meet the definition of a passport. It is unclear whether any country currently accepts WSA passports. (THIS STATEMENT IS NOT BASED UPON ANY QUANTITATIVE EVIDENCE OF LACK OF RECOGNITION.)
