Afghan passport

Afghan passport
The front cover of an Afghan passport from the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2013-Present).
Date first issued	1880
Issued by	Afghanistan
Type of document	Passport
Purpose	Identification
Eligibility requirements	Afghan citizenship
Expiration	5 years

The Afghan passport is issued to citizens of Afghanistan for international travel. It was introduced by Emir Abdur Rahman Khan in 1880.

In September 2011, the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs began issuing two types of biometric passports (e-passports) for Afghan diplomats and public servants. These were produced in the United Kingdom.^[1]^[2] In March 2013, new international standard e-passports were introduced to all citizens of Afghanistan.^[3] According to spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Janan Musazai, "on the photo page, there are 16 security codes."^[1] Issuance of computerized ID cards were also started in the same month.^[4] These changes are expected to prevent fraud in future elections, government corruption and improve the security situation of Afghanistan. The cost of a new Afghan e-passport is 5,000 Afghanis ($100 US dollars).^[5]

Afghanistan has only one passport office, located in Kabul.^[6] According to the 2012 Visa Restricitions Index, holders of an Afghan passport can visit only 26 countries visa-free or with visa on arrival. This is the lowest number of all passports worldwide as of 2012.

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Sample of current Afghan passport
Sample of current national identity card

Passports

Africa

Central

Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Congo, Republic of the Equatorial Guinea Gabon

ECCAS	Angola Congo, Democratic Republic of the São Tomé and Príncipe

Eastern

Northern

Southern

Western

Mauritania Saint Helena¹

ECOWAS	Benin Burkina Faso Cape Verde Côte d'Ivoire Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Niger Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Togo

Americas

Caribbean

Anguilla¹ British Virgin Islands¹ Cayman Islands¹ Cuba Dominican Republic Montserrat¹ Turks and Caicos Islands¹

CARICOM	Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Dominica Grenada Haiti Jamaica Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago

Central

Costa Rica Panama

CARICOM	Belize

Central America-4	El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua

Northern

South

Chile

Andean	Bolivia Colombia Ecuador Peru

CARICOM	Guyana Suriname

Mercosur	Argentina Brazil Paraguay Uruguay Venezuela

Asia

Central & North	Afghanistan Kazakhstan⁵ Kyrgyzstan Russia³ Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan

East	People's Republic of China Hong Kong¹⁰ Macao¹⁰ Japan Korea, North Korea, South Mongolia Republic of China (Taiwan)⁸

South	Bangladesh Bhutan India Maldives Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka

Southeast	Brunei Burma Cambodia East Timor Indonesia Laos Malaysia Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam

West	Abkhazia⁵ ⁸ Armenia⁶ Azerbaijan⁵ Bahrain Cyprus⁶ Egypt⁷ Georgia⁵ Iran Iraq Islamic State⁹ Israel Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Nagorno-Karabakh⁶ ⁸ Northern Cyprus⁶ ⁸ Oman Palestinian Authority Qatar Saudi Arabia South Ossetia⁵ ⁸ Syria Turkey⁴ United Arab Emirates Yemen

Europe

Other Europe

European Union

Oceania

Australia Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia, Federated States of Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Pitcairn Islands¹ Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu

International organizations
Defunct passports
Passport types

International organizations	European Union laissez-passer International Committee of the Red Cross Interpol United Nations laissez-passer

Defunct	British Indian Empire¹ Czechoslovakia East Germany Korean Empire League of Nations refugee Mandatory Palestine Rhodesia Soviet Union¹¹ UNMIK Travel Document Yugoslavia

Types	Biometric Camouflage Diplomatic Fake Hajj Horse Internal International Machine-readable Pet Travel document alien refugee stateless person World

¹ 1. Includes Crown Dependencies, British Overseas Territories, and former British plantations, crown colonies, colonies, protectorates, protected states, mandates, trust territories and other British possessions.
2. The Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey are not part of the European Union, but Manxmen and Channel Islanders are citizens of the European Union; the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey, and Manxmen and Channel Islanders themselves (unless they qualify and apply for recognition of a change in status), are however excluded from the benefits of the Four Freedoms of the European Union.
3. The Government of the United Kingdom also issue passports to British nationals who are not British citizens with the right of abode in the United Kingdom and who are also not otherwise citizens of the European Union.

² Open border with Schengen Area.

³ Russia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia.

⁴ Turkey is a transcontinental country in the Western Asia and Southeast Europe.

⁵ Abkhazia; South Ossetia) and Kazakhstan are transcontinental countries in the Western Asia and Eastern Europe.

⁶ Armenia (Nagorno-Karabakh) and Cyprus (Northern Cyprus) are entirely in Western Asia but having socio-political connections with Europe.

⁷ Egypt is a transcontinental country in North Africa and the Western Asia.

⁸ Partially recognized.

⁹ Not recognized by any other state.

¹⁰ Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China

¹¹ The Soviet Union was a transcontinental country located in Eurasia