Template talk:Passports

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I put HKSAR & MSAR passports under People's Republic of China. These passports have an issuing state of CHN (issued by the state People's Rpeublic of China) and the immigrations departments of HK & Macau are issuing these passports under the authorisation of the PRC Foreign Affairs Ministry. I would think HKSAR & MSAR are two categories of PRC passports.

Moreover, please note that the region of the "issuing state" may not be the same the the region of the "passport". For example, even British National (Overseas) passports are issued by the issuing state United Kingdom (an EU member), BN(O) passports are held by former colonial citizen in Hong Kong (Asia) and it does not confer any right of abode in the UK nor EU citizenship. However, since the issuing state is located in the EU, BN(O) is categorised as an European passport in this template, but not an Asian passport.

BN(O) 04:44, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

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Maldivian passport article doesn't exist so I removed it and why were all these under the UN section: Biometric · Internal · Machine-readable | Alien · Camouflage · Hajj · Laissez-passer · Pet · World. Only Laissez-passer could fall into that UN category. --Avala (talk) 16:58, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kosovo

Once again, the page about the Kosovar passport has been removed. Please understand that Kosovo issues its own passports. You or your country may not recognize their independence or their right to issue passports, but they do issue them. This is not a political statement, but a fact. So please stop removing it. Thank you for your understanding, (209.7.171.66 (talk) 20:32, 14 March 2008 (UTC))

[edit] Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan

All three have to be either in Europe (for political or cultural reasons and since parts of Georgia's and Azerbaijan's territory are in Europe according to some) or they should be in Asia (where they are located per UN, Encyclopaedia Britannica, etc). I'll move Georgia to Asia since Armenia and Azerbaijan are already there. Alæxis¿question? 15:29, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Defunct passports

I added a few communists countries which no longer exist (Czechoslovakian passport, East German passport, Soviet passport, and Yugoslavian passport). I thought it would be interesting to have an article about their passports and free travel abilities (or lack thereof). After a week or so, no one really touched them, so I'm thinking about removing them. If any of you would be interested about contributing that would be great. If not, it's no big loss either. Just thought I'd bring up the idea. Thanks, (Einstein00 (talk) 02:05, 14 May 2008 (UTC))