Colombian passport

Colombian passport
The front cover of a contemporary Colombian biometric passport.
Date first issued September 2015 (biometric passport booklet)
Issued by  Colombia
Type of document Passport
Purpose Identification
Eligibility requirements Colombian citizenship
Expiration 10 years

The Colombian passport is a travel document which is issued to citizens of Colombia for the purpose of international travel. Since September 2015 a Biometric passport has been introduced. The previous machine-readable version can be used as long as it is valid.


Citizens of Colombia do not need a passport when traveling to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. For these countries, they may use just their domestic identification cards called Cédula de Ciudadanía.[1][2]

Several drivers resulted in the issuing of the document:

  • The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) issued Resolution No. A36-15 in which it urged its 190 member countries to issue readable passports from 2010. The intent of this resolution was to ensure security and integrity of travel documents worldwide.
  • Increased safety: The new book has special design features, and print materials that correspond to three levels of security.
  • Allowing quick migration processes: the machine-readable zone facilitates the process of recognition and registration of the passenger when entering or leaving a country, because a machine automatically interprets the information encoded in their passport, which reduces approximately 50% on-call time by immigration agents.

Visa requirements

Countries and territories with visa-free or visa on arrival entry for holders of regular Colombian passports

As of May 2018, Colombian citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 127 countries and territories, ranking the Colombian passport 39th in terms of travel freedom according to the Henley Passport Index.[3]

See also

External sources

References

  1. "Acuerdo sobre Documentos de Viaje de los Estados Partes del MERCOSUR y Estados Asociados" (PDF) (in Spanish). mercosur.int. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  2. "En 2014 se aprobó el "Segundo Acuerdo Modificatorio del Anexo del Acuerdo sobre Documentos de Viaje de los Estados Partes del MERCOSUR y Estados Asociados"" (PDF) (in Spanish). mercosur.int. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  3. "Global Ranking - Passport Index 2018" (PDF). Henley & Partners. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 June 2018. Retrieved 2 June 2018.


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