What your country's passport looks like

eurobillsandcoins · Post by **eurobillsandcoins** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 8:23 pm

Hmm, I don't know why, but I'm just curious about how every european country's passport looks like, if you could, post the data page of your passport (feel free to blank out your name, passport number, picture)
I posted a picture of my own HKSAR passport, I know my name is different than my name in France, because I had my name changed when I became a French Citizen, and changed my last name to my spouse's last name.
Here it is: (I hosted it on one of my friend's website)
http://www.aloofhosting.com/thomasng/hksarpassport.JPG

!Pretfles! · Post by **!Pretfles!** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 8:25 pm

Your link does not seem to work.

eurobillsandcoins · Post by **eurobillsandcoins** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 8:26 pm

Hmm, I fixed it

Speukes · Post by **Speukes** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 11:03 pm

I didn't find a nice picture of a current Belgian ID, but in a few years we'll have new digital ID's that will look like this:

http://www.ibz.fgov.be/img/commun/idcard.jpg

In the future, you should be able to do a lot of things with your ID, like paying something, digital signature, ...

eurobillsandcoins · Post by **eurobillsandcoins** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 12:26 am

Hong Kong also has mandatory IDs for people starting from 11 years old, Hong Kong Permanent Identity Cards are issued to residents without who have the right of abode in Hong Kong (cannot be removed from the HKSAR, unlimited stay, may study and work freely), and if the card has 3 stars, they are Chinese Citizens and may apply for HKSAR passports. Hong Kong Identity Cards are issued to people with limited stay (if over 180 days). The government issued the first smartid card on June 23, 2003, and began to start a 6 year territory wide replacement exercise on August 18, 2003. People are called up in groups by their year of birth, and when the call up period is in force, the people have 3 months to replace their ID cards, at the 12 smartid card centres around Hong Kong. The citizens are required to apply in person to any of the smartid centres, so they can have their two thumbprints live-captured along with their picture. The card has a chip, which allows for many new functions, and they can use the new HongKong Post e-cert which, if you have a smart card reader, you insert the card, and be sure your information is safe by only allowing people with the id card inserted to do internet banking, online auctions, and many other multi-applications. They can also use the government's online ESDlife services in MTR stations, to book appointments, contact the government, request information. Also, your library card can be embedded on the chip, for self-serve book checkout. In June, you may also have your driver's license embedded on it, so you can carry your id card for your library and driving functions. Also, there are self-serve Immigration kisoks in SmartId card centres and ROP centres, to correct their information, change the PIN number for e-cert. Also the Immigration department is trying a self-serve HKSAR passport application system, where you insert your id card, put your fingerprints on the scanner for verification, enter your personal details, and then put a picture of yourself on a scanner, use your credit card to pay, and then collect the passport in 5 days. I have personally had my id card replaced in February, under the call-up period for 1964 or 1965. Also, some banks are starting to allow you to integrate your banking functions into the card, for use in atms. And finally, people with these new id cards, may use self-serve immigration gates at the airport, ferry terminals, and border between Mainland China.
Here is a sample of the new id card:
http://b5togb.hkedcity.net/gate/gb/www. ... _front.jpg

eurobillsandcoins · Post by **eurobillsandcoins** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 5:05 am

Ok never mind..............the hosting company deleted his website.

Donald · Post by **Donald** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 6:19 pm

I wrote this in a thread about driving licences:

Olivier wrote:Show us her passport!!!

These are the holographic security features, you see when looking at a flat angle at the identity card

This is how the identity card looks like in normal view.

And here is the identification part of her passport, which has similar security features

Olivier · Post by **Olivier** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 12:30 am

Will she have a biometric passport soon?

N0W1K · Post by **N0W1K** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 9:12 am

I only could find these pics of our passports or ID card

Speukes · Post by **Speukes** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 5:46 pm

Speukes wrote:I didn't find a nice picture of a current Belgian ID, but in a few years we'll have new digital ID's that will look like this:

http://www.ibz.fgov.be/img/commun/idcard.jpg

In the future, you should be able to do a lot of things with your ID, like paying something, digital signature, ...

A year later, our digital ID's have arrived in Belgium...

Donald · Post by **Donald** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 7:45 pm

Olivier wrote:Will she have a biometric passport soon?

If she stays in Europe, Erika Mustermann will keep her passport until October 2011. If she plans to visit the USA next year, she must have a new passport issued. Otherwise she needs a visa. Maybe, the visa comes cheaper, if she goes only once to America. The present passport costs 26 €, the new edition will be expensive, could be 130 € or so.

wilg · Post by **wilg** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:01 pm

I found these pictures for the Netherlands:

Passport
ID card

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 12:49 am

Donald wrote:If she stays in Europe, Erika Mustermann will keep her passport until October 2011. If she plans to visit the USA next year, she must have a new passport issued. Otherwise she needs a visa.

Hmm, not quite. According to the current US regulations, countries that participate in the Visa Waiver Program need to start issuing passports with biometric features by 26-Oct-2005. So if, for example, Germany complies with that rule, German visitors who already have a (machine readable but not biometric) passport can enter the US in late 2005, or 2006, etc. with that passport.

Problem is, the EU's own deadline for biometric passports (again, for starting to issue them) is 28-Aug-2006. Quite a few EU member states, however, cannot meet the earlier US deadline, which is why EU Commissioner Frattini recently asked the US government to "adapt" it ...

Christian

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 10:40 am

Welcome to the forum, Christian!
Please register yourself a username also here on the forum. It's quite straightforward. Just click "Register" on the upper part of this page and fill in a form.
Registering is handy because it lets you send and receive private messages, edit your posts and makes it easier for you to later find the messages you've written.
Also, when you are registered no one else can write text blaming to be you. Now anyone could write an anonymous post and write "Christian" in the end. That has never happened on this forum yet, but it's nevertheless possible.

tabbs · Post by **tabbs** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 1:32 pm

Thanks for the welcome :-) Actually I had tried logging in by entering my EBT username and password. But apparently they do not work in the forum ...

Christian (NW, DE, EU)