Guatemalan passport

Guatemalan passport

Guatemalan Passports are issued to Guatemalan citizens to travel outside of Guatemala.

Apperance

Like all Central American passports the cover is navy with gold fonts stating the official name of the country in Spanish and in English, the Guatemalan Coat of Arms in the middle and the words Pasaporte and Passport in the bottom.

Passports have a validity of 5 years and the languages used are Spanish and English.

ecurity Features

The Guatemalan passport contains many security features in it like colored fibers embedded in the pages, a water mark on all pages, and others. Like in the quetzal bills, the passport has an outline of an image on one side and on the other side the image is colored; and when a page is held up against light, the observer is able to see the color on the white outline.

Guatemalan passports are machine readable and contain a bar code with the holder's biometric information. Because of this detail, no attempts have been made to also include the RFID chip yet.

The passport issuing authority is the Dirección General de Migración (General Immigration Directorship), a dependency of the Ministerio de Gobernación (Ministry of the Interior).

Types of Passports

*Ordinarios (Personal) - Issued to Guatemalan citizens for general travel and are requested through the General Immigration Directorship.
*Oficiales (Official) - Issued to Guatemalan employed officials who are holding an office in the government and represent the country. These passports are requested through the General Immigration Directorship.
*Diplomaticos (Diplomatic) - Issued to Guatemalan high ranking officials that are employed by the government. These passports need to be requested through the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
*Temporales (Temporal) - Issued only to government officials or diplomats who represent the country for a specified period of time.

Visa-free travel

Americas

ee also

* List of passports

References

*Visa requirements by country from the [http://www.minex.gob.gt/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2016&Itemid=142 Guatemalan MOFA]
* [http://www.worldpassports.org/americas/pages/Guatemala.htm A Picture of the cover]
* Council regulation 539/2001 [http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CONSLEG:2001R0539:20050624:EN:PDF]
* Council regulation 1932/2006 [http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2007:029:0010:0013:EN:PDF]
* Council regulation 539/2001 consolidated version, 19.1.2007 [http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/consleg/2001/R/02001R0539-20070119-en.pdf]
* List of nationals who do need a visa to visit the UK [http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1020786334922] .
* List of countries whose passport holders do not require visas to enter Ireland [http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/moving-country/moving-to-ireland/coming-to-live-in-ireland/visa-requirements-for-entering-ireland] .

External links

* [http://www.migracion.gob.gt Dirección General de Migración]


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