Azerbaijani passport

Azerbaijani passport
The front cover of a contemporary Azerbaijani biometric passport (2013).
The data page of the latest version of the Azerbaijani biometric passport.
Date first issued	28 May 1991 (current passport) 2012 (biometric passports)
Issued by	Azerbaijan
Type of document	Passport
Purpose	Identification
Eligibility requirements	Azerbaijani citizenship
Expiration	1 year period for children under age of 1 3 years period – for children under age of 3 5 years period – for children under age of 3-18 10 years period – for persons above the age of 18

The Azerbaijani passport is issued to the citizens of Azerbaijan for the purpose of international travel. Ordinary passport is valid for 10 years (since 2007) from the date of issue and contains 34 visa pages. Passport content is printed both in Azerbaijani and in English.

According to the 2012 publication of the Visa Restricitions Index, citizens of Azerbaijan can travel to 57 countries without a visa or by obtaining a visa at border crossings.

Types of passports

Ordinary passport: Issued to normal citizens.
- Ordinary passports are issued in two different lengths of validity: five and ten years. Azerbaijani citizens up to 18 years of age can only be issued a five-year passport, while those who are 18 years of age or older ten-year (Green) passport.
Official passport: Issued to public servants.
Diplomatic passport: Issued to diplomats and their family members and government high-level officials.

Physical appearance

Coat of arms of Azerbaijan is printed in relief in the center of the front cover with "Azərbaycan Respublikası" in Azeri and "The Republic of Azerbaijan" in English above the coat of arms, as well as, "PASPORT" and "PASSPORT" printed below.

The passport is 88 x 125 mm with 54 pages in total.

In line with the passport type, the samples of Azerbaijani passports can be of the following colors:

Civil passport-dark green
Official passport-dark blue
Diplomatic passport-dark red

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The Coat of Arms of Republic of Azerbaijan is printed on the front cover of the passport.
The description data page of the Azerbaijani biometric passport.
The first page of the Azerbaijani e-passport.
Inside of the front cover and the first page of an ordinary .
The data page of the Azerbaijani biometric passport.

Information page

Azerbaijani passports are issued by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan. They include the following data on the information page:

Photograph of the holder (digital image printed on page)
Type (P)
Passport number
Surname
Given names
Date of birth
Sex
Place of birth (only the city or town is listed, even if born outside of Republic of Azerbaijan.)
Date of issue
Date of expiry
Holder's signature (digital image printed on page)
Machine Readable Zone starting with P<AZE

Biometric passport

New biometric Azerbaijani passports were announced on 17 July 2012.^[1]

New passport booklet design is in compliance with ICAO regulation document 9303. E-passport sign indicating the presence of RFID chip, is placed on the cover of the passport, as well as above the photo of the holder on the main rigid information page which contains the RFID chip as well as a machine readable zone at the bottom of the page. The overall design of the new booklet, apart from the above-mentioned, does not differ from the previous non-biometric booklet design.

Visa requirements

Main article: Visa requirements for Azerbaijani citizens

Visa requirements for Azerbaijani citizens

In 2015, Azerbaijani citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 58 countries and territories, ranking the Azerbaijani passport 79th in the world according to the Visa Restrictions Index.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Passports of Azerbaijan.

Republic of Azerbaijan Ministry of Foreign Affairs

References

↑ http://www.news.az/articles/society/64964

Passports

Africa

Central

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

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

North

South

Chile

Andean	Bolivia Colombia Ecuador Peru

CARICOM	Guyana Suriname

Mercosur	Argentina Brazil Paraguay Uruguay Venezuela

Asia

Central & North	Afghanistan Kazakhstan⁶ Kyrgyzstan Russia³ Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan

East	People's Republic of China Hong Kong¹¹ Macao¹¹ Japan Korea, North Korea, South Mongolia Republic of China (Taiwan)⁹

South	Bangladesh Bhutan India Maldives Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka

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

West	Abkhazia⁵ ⁹ Armenia⁷ Azerbaijan⁵ Bahrain Cyprus⁷ Egypt⁸ Georgia⁵ Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Nagorno-Karabakh⁷ ⁹ Northern Cyprus⁷ ⁹ Oman Palestinian Authority Qatar Saudi Arabia South Ossetia⁵ ⁹ 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 (Nansen) Mandatory Palestine Rhodesia Soviet Union¹² UNMIK Travel Document Yugoslavia

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

¹ A) Includes Crown Dependencies, British Overseas Territories, and former British plantations, crown colonies, colonies, protectorates, protected states, mandates, trust territories and other British possessions.
B) 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.
C) 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. The vast majority of its population (80%) lives in European Russia, therefore Russia as a whole is included as a European country here.

⁴ Turkey is a transcontinental country in the Middle East and Southeast Europe. Turkey has a small part of its territory (3%) in Southeast Europe called Turkish Thrace.

⁵ Azerbaijan and Georgia (Abkhazia; South Ossetia) are transcontinental countries. Both have a small part of their territories in the European part of the Caucasus.

⁶ Kazakhstan is a transcontinental country. Kazakhstan has a small part of its territories located west of the Urals in Eastern Europe.

⁷ Armenia (Nagorno-Karabakh) and Cyprus (Northern Cyprus) are entirely in Southwest Asia but having socio-political connections with Europe.

⁸ Egypt is a transcontinental country in North Africa and Western Asia. Egypt has a small part of its territory in Western Asia called Sinai peninsula.

⁹ Partially recognized.

¹⁰ Not recognized by any other state.

¹¹ Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China

¹² The Soviet Union was a transcontinental country located in Eurasia

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