Emergency/Short Term Passports

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Emergency/Short Term Passports

• John Mercer
• Chair, Document Content
• Format Working Group

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Background

• Machine Readable Passports (MRP) made to Doc 9303
  Part 1 standard
• Latest edition of Part 1 was published in 2003
• Current Standards work will add biometric
  features on a globally interoperable basis

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Passport Issuance - I

• Domestic issuance
• Centralized, or select locations
• Best technology available
• Best security features
• Personalization printers expensive
• Normally requires some time until passport is
  delivered to the holder

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Passport Issuance - II

• Foreign Issuance
• No Urgency - Repatriate the application or use
  resident printers
• Takes time
• Full validity passport

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Passport Issuance - III

• Emergency Issuance
• Urgent time, done quickly
• Less than optimal issuance conditions
• Results in Travel Letters, or Short-Term
  Passports

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Short Term and Emergency Issue Passports

• Not the intent to make a weak link document
• Short Term passports should be MRPs, or at least
  MRP format

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Differences between Short Term and Regular
Passports

• Cover Color-different not garish
• Validity-not more than one year
• Book Size-fewer pages, 8 to 12
• Book Designation-Emergency or Short Term or
  Provisional
• Passport Number-Serial Number
• Security Features-Two or more
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