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2 unusual facts about passport


Forever Activists

Passports were revoked, and for many their membership in the brigade was to cost them jobs and reputations for decades to come.

Tourism in Egypt

Passports and visas are required of foreign visitors except natives of several Middle Eastern countries.


Asian Geographic

ASIAN Geographic PASSPORT organises travel photography workshops to places such as Kuching, Malaysia and Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Assem Jarrah

His work permit was found in the smouldering remains of United Airlines Flight 93 along with Ziad's charred passport.

Balram Chainrai

Balram Chainrai is a Nepalese based businessman that was born in Okhaldhunga District, eastern Nepal and migrated with his family to Hong Kong with his British Gurkha Army father and brought up in Hong Kong and that holds a British passport, who formerly owned Portsmouth Football Club.

Bangladeshi passport

The inside back of the passport contains an embossed image of the National Parliament of Bangladesh in Bengali (Bangla) and English, with a quotation of Louis I Kahn, the architect of the complex, written in English.

The inside cover of a machine readable Bangladeshi passport has an embossed image of the National Monument, with the national anthem of Bangladesh written in Bengali (Bangla) and English.

Belizean passport

In early 2004, Belize suffered a "passport crisis" due to a shortage of blank passports when a delivery from the country's United Kingdom-based passport supplier De La Rue was delayed.

Biological passport

Franco Pellizotti received a two-year sanction as a result of abnormalities detected in his biological passport.

Tadej Valjavec received a two-year sanction as a result of abnormalities detected in his biological passport.

Biometric passport

On 25 June 2008 Indian Passport Authority issued first e-passport to the President of India, Pratibha Patil.

Blue Danube Radio

It also syndicated Casey Kasem's Top 40 (American hit parade), and a short programme called Passport encouraged the study of foreign languages.

Canadian Children's Museum

With a museum-issued passport and a good imagination, visitors can travel to Nigeria, Japan, India, Mexico, Indonesia and other international destinations.

City of Fear

City of Fear is the fourth album by FM, a progressive rock group from Toronto, Canada, released in 1980 on Passport Records and distributed in Canada by Capitol Records, catalogue number PB-2028, and in the USA on Passport distributed by Jem Records, catalogue number PB-6004.

Cuban passport

The abolition of the hated requirement led to long lines at passport offices filled with citizens desiring to legally travel abroad; however, the lines were partly attributed to the fact that the cost of obtaining a passport was going to double the next day to the equivalent of 100 United States dollars.

Dominican Republic passport

In May 2001, Kim Jong-nam, the son of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il, was arrested at Narita International Airport, in Tokyo, Japan, travelling on a forged Dominican Republic passport.

Edmar Figueira

He also passed a short period in Germany under negotiation with the Bundesliga Club SC Freiburg, but did not sign because of not having an EU passport.

Godfred Karikari

Godfred has yet to obtain his Hong Kong passport, but is still being drafted into new head coach Ernie Merrick's 27-member training squad.

Hinduja Group

On 26 January 2001, Prime Minister Tony Blair was accused of prejudicing the independent inquiry into the Hinduja passport affair, after he declared that Keith Vaz not done "anything wrong".

HM Passport Office

The agency's headquarters is collocated with the Home Office at 2 Marsham Street and it has six regional offices around the UK, in London, Glasgow, Belfast, Peterborough, Liverpool and Durham as well as an extensive nationwide interview office network as all first time adult passport applicants are required to attend an interview to verify their identity as a fraud prevention measure.

In 2007, the 90 British diplomatic missions that issued passports were consolidated into seven Regional Passport Processing Centres (RPPCs) based in Düsseldorf, Hong Kong, Madrid, Paris, Pretoria, Washington, D.C. and Wellington with an additional centre in Dublin.

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region passport

On 10 April 2013, the Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, announced that, starting from 2015, holders of Hong Kong SAR e-passports would be able to use SmartGates in Australia on a trial basis.

Human rights in Turkmenistan

Those without Russian passports may be forced to become Turkmens, and fear that they may never be able to return to Russia.

Josh Lambo

As a 15-year old he spent the summer training with Everton F.C. during their US tour in 2006 on the recommendation of US international Tim Howard and was invited to Finch Farm before being offered a professional contract on the proviso that he could secure an EU passport due to his Greek heritage.

Josiah Belden

The party was detained at Mission San Jose by General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo for illegally entering Mexico without valid passports; Vallejo violated his orders to force all American immigrants to leave California, allowing the group to remain after becoming Mexican citizens.

Khosla Ka Ghosla

The only person Cherry discusses his plan with are Asif Iqbal (Vinay Pathak), the agent helping him with his passport and visa paperwork.

Liechtenstein identity card

The Liechtenstein identity card (in German: Identitätskarte Liechtenstein) is issued to Liechtenstein citizens by the Immigration and Passport Office in Vaduz.

Lotfi Raissi

On February 12, 2002, Judge Timothy Workman allowed Raissi to post $14,000 bail and surrender his passport, after stating that there seemed to be no credibility to the US claims.

Macao Special Administrative Region passport

According to the Nationality Law of the People's Republic of China and the Explanations of some questions by the Standing Committee of the PRC National People's Congress concerning the implementation of the Nationality Law in the Macau SAR, any Macau SAR permanent resident holding Chinese nationality can apply for the Macau SAR passport.

Mary Joseph Butler

On the closing of the Dublin convent, the Duke of Ormonde assured his cousin, Abbess Butler, of his special protection, should she consent to remain in Ireland, but she decided to return to Ypres, upon which the duke procured for her, from the Prince of Orange, a passport (still preserved at Ypres) permitting her and her nuns to leave the country without molestation.

Matías Aguirregaray

In October 2010 he joined Segunda División B club Terrassa FC, in order to help him gain a Spanish passport to ease a potential move to a higher-rank team within Europe.

National Statistician

Following the implementation of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007, the General Register Office continues to be part of a ministerially-accountable department, becoming a part of the Identity & Passport Service in the Home Office and the post of Registrar-General is now held by its head.

Norwegian passport

As an EEA member state, Norway started storing fingerprint data when applying for a new passport on 6 April 2010.

The biometric passports contain an RFID chip containing the passport's printed data in a digital format along with the photograph in a JPEG format along with a digital key to verify the that the data contained is authentic and hasn't been tampered with.

Operation Weasel

The exact nature of the operation, if it did indeed exist, is subject to disagreement — most accounts link it to investigations into the sale of Nauruan passports, the defection of North Korean scientists to the West, or both.

Øresund Bridge

The Øresund Bridge crosses the border between Denmark and Sweden, but in accordance with the Schengen Agreement and the Nordic Passport Union, there are usually no passport inspections.

Palauan passport

The Palauan Passport is an international travel document that is issued to Palauan citizens which is issued centrally at the Passport Office in Meyuns, Palau.

Passport system in the Soviet Union

The document declared that all citizens at least sixteen years old residing in cites, towns, and urban workers' settlements, as well as residing within one hundred kilometres of Moscow and Leningrad, within fifty kilometres of Kharkov, Kiev, Minsk, Rostov-on-Don and Vladivostok and within the hundred-kilometre zone along the Western border of the USSR were required to have a passport with propiska.

Ryan Stack

That way he could play as a European on a bosman passport, and thus not count as one of the two non-Europeans that were allowed per team in the Greek League at that time.

Samantha Brown

Samantha Elizabeth Brown (born March 31, 1970) is an American television host, notable for her work as the host of several Travel Channel shows including Girl Meets Hawaii, Great Vacation Homes, Great Hotels, Passport to Europe, Passport to Latin America, Great Weekends, Green Getaways, Passport to China, and Samantha Brown's Asia.

Sanjay Shah

In 2004 he gave up his Kenyan passport and flew to the United Kingdom on a British Overseas citizen passport which permits temporary entry but not residence.

SmartGate

Trials of the SmartGate system in conjunction with the biometric passport technology were expanded in late 2004 from use with Qantas air-crew (which began in 2002), to include over 1,000 Qantas platinum frequent flyers.

STV Productions

STV Productions have produced many shows, including: Scottish Passport, The Hour, Catchphrase, The Poison Tree, Fake Reaction, Antiques Road Trip and many more.

Swedish passport

The passports are issued by the Swedish Police and applications are filed at police stations which have a passport office.

Trent Johnston

He continued playing Sydney Grade Cricket for North Sydney Cricket Club, but qualified for an Irish passport and then-coach Adrian Birrell decided he might be a useful addition to the Irish side.

United States passport

The minister to France, Benjamin Franklin, based the design of passports issued by his mission on that of the French passport.

The Travel Control Act of May 22, 1918, permitted the president, when the United States was at war, to proclaim a passport requirement, and President Wilson issued such a proclamation on August 18, 1918.

Unruhe

In Traverse City, Michigan, Mary Lefante goes to a local pharmacy to get her passport photo taken.

Wilfrid B. Israel

Less officially, he formed a working partnership with Frank Foley, the British intelligence agent who was Passport Officer at the British consulate in Berlin, vouching for the characters of Jews in line to emigrate, while warning Foley of German agents who attempted to infiltrate.

Zeeshan Anis Siddiqui

According to the Daily Times he was arrested when he went to a Police Station in Peshawar to report the loss of his passport.


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