All The Very Real Passports Not Issued By Countries 

@Flash bang are you a bot

Now that is ironic.

Ye

You may raise some interest, but mostly because they will want to show it to others because of the rarity.

Which makes it an even better excuse to talk about how you work for the UN

Whats the rarest one youve seen?

isn't it a problem when you get a rare passport and don't know what to do with it?

@@GPEtana Definitely South Korean. I've seen only three of those and they belonged to members of the same family. It's also the best passport design I've seen to date.

@@jendorei not as big a problem as you would think… those rare passport generally will need a visa… immigration inspectors will look for a visa from their overseas consulate. If that’s not there, there are public websites that an inspector can reference.

@@jendorei Not really. Passports are generally designed similar to each other due to international standarts. If we need to check out security features to make sure we have a database that shows the spesifics of every current passport.

how would anyone know he was traveling for business or pleasure?

@@andii256 Interrogate with thumb screws? Just ask? IT's just one of those things that you are supposed or not supposed to do. And most pleasure travel would be with family.

@aroundsundown generally when travelling on official business you have a "note verbal". However most still use it for personal reasons

You can use it for leisure only when you re enter the country where you work (if it’s not yours) when you’ve been abroad. And you need a paper that say that yes you need to be in this country to work for the UN. Elsewhere, you are not supposed to use it in a border control. But if you’re driving like a shit, yes you can use it 🤫

Question anyone with a diplomatic passport violates international law good luck with that

I need to make a "donnez-moi un million de euros" document. The supervisor can say, "that's French for 'give him a million bucks' so give him a million bucks" :)

How to have Laissez Passer passport?

@@funkygawy *Donnez-moi un million d'euros

Aren't there customs/border lines for diplomats? Did they have training with the more weird ones, or was it still far outside what is normally seen?

It really depends on the country. many countries there are diplomatic lines, but even in Washington DC a "real" dedicated diplomatic line only exists since 2019. In countries where you need a visa as a diplomat it's easy, they only care if you have a diplomatic visa in your passport, in countries with an agreement for visa-free travel for diplomats its more tricky. For example, theoretically China and Japan accept the EU laissez-passer without a visa, but in practice it is not on the list of valid documents that the border agents have, so always good to have a back-up national passport with you...

A previous HAI episode went into detail about the Sovereign Order of Malta, I'm surprised Sam didn't explicitly call it out. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8gYDjWUefI4.html

@@trimeta It seems that I missed this episode. 😅

Hospitallers have been around longer than most countries.

There are a few actually but they are in a grey area as far as if they are the OG Orders, the Order of Lazarus has a few branches recognized by the UN but does not have a passport and there are a few other Orders of Malta that work with the SMOM that are also UN observers.

Yea they HAVE TO let you pass 😂

I want a video on this topic.

One of the few times you ever want a democracy to have closed parliament/courts is this type of thing!

@@Auzgames aye!

Ye

There’s a really cool movie on this

I just checked and passeport is actually "pass the (sea) port", not the door (although the confusion is very understandable, I might have made the same mistake xd)

In french they don't pronounce the t, so it's port same as in english. The first passports were to allow someone to go on a boat at times when travel was restricted. It was more like what we call today an exit visa. The passport had no value outside of the area under control of the issuer. So it was just a pass to use the port.

@@tonymouannes I know about French pronunciation, I'm French myself xdd But thanks for the historical explanation

IMAGINE SAYING TO YOUR GIRLFRIEND, PLEASE LAISSEZ PASSER 😂😂😂

And the Wild Passport. I know that it's legally not a password

Holy see passports is basically Vatican's Diplomatic passport for it's ambassadors and diplomats to UN and other countries. All countries have different type of passport for their diplomats. It's different from civilian passports.

vatican is a country though

@@_vindicator_ but what he is saying is that there is a separate passport issued by the Vatican City (the state) and the Holy See (then office of the pope) (The king of the Vatican and the Holy See are always the same person though so the distinction is odd)

@@Valiguss yeah now he's saying that coz he edited the comment lol

Yep, but it wouldn't be right to say they used it for entry. They just showed up at border control, were asked where they are really from, and upon realizing they're Canadian citizens their identity was verified in the database and they were allowed entry based on that alone

So this "Iroquois passport" thing was accepted better than a Canadian Citizenship Card with your picture on it, eh? I don't know what to say about that.

⁠@@pamelakennedysztyblewsky2454 i think it‘s the owner not accepting the Canadian citizenship card. Were they supposed to cause an outrage denying indigenous people access to their laand?

Someone needs to tell Australia about that law lol. Aussie citizens were totally locked out during the pandemic, but wasn't the first time. During the Asian Tsunami it blew my mind that Australia sent so many officials overseas to reissue passports/visas to allow Aussies who lost them in the tsunami to travel home. Insane! They should have just thrown anyone who said they were an Aussie onto a plane headed for Australia & dealt with identifying them once they landed (could have done a lot of the work on route too in reality) & anyone who wasn't actually an Aussie could have just been showered, fed & watered, clothed, given medical care & held at the airport until they contacted friends or family or authorities in their real country to get identity documents to fly home to their real country. Australia also likes to strip citizenship from any duel citizen who breaks the law, causing some tension with NZ after sending to NZ people who came to Australia as babies but had duel citizenship due to actually being born in NZ to NZ in their 20's & 30's, cause of them breaking the law in Australia. NZ was understandably not impressed! I had a friend some years ago btw who had only 1 stamp on their passport, an Australian one! They had gone skiing in NZ & NZ doesn't require passports for Aussies to travel there, so he hadn't got a NZ stamp in it, only the Aussie stamp that he got due to requiring an Aussie passport to be allowed to re-enter Australia. We really could learn a thing or 2 from Canada & NZ!

​@@mehere8038 Well, the law in question is The Constitution Act, 1982, Part 1 (The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms), Section 6 (Mobility Rights) laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/const/page-12.html#h-44 I couldn't find a comparable section in the Australian Constitution.

same here in the Netherlands. however it's not like the monarch wrote the paspoort him/her self.

He's just gonna copy the letter from his mom

Good to know that Charles can do something useful for his subjects 😉

The acronym KC3 makes me think of "Krusader Cings 3"

And because our passports are issued by the monarch, the monarch themselves doesn't need a passport to enter other countries.

If you can’t watch a video without bad jokes and flashing colors youre a child

@@null7879 Edit: I just realized I misread your message. I thought you said "with". In that case, it makes more sense now. You're insulting me for complimenting a joke, and implying that I "can't watch a video without it" even though I said nothing of the sort. Still have no idea why you brought up flashing colors though.

@@null7879 dude, let people enjoy things

/slow blinks/

He's a self declared Antifa supporter, Soros-paid (Wendover Production is significantly funded by the Open Society Foundation), intentional felon. It's dsgusting that you'd then go and condone his terrorist behavior

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Most importantly, it'll be blue! All totally worth it for that. I got my most recent one in between the removal of "European Union" and the colour change. Interstitial!

In commonwealth countries most authority is still ceremonially derived from the monarch. So yeah, the Que... King signs your passport, driver's license, and jail warrant.

I got my new passport today, it still references QEII. It makes sense that they're using up the old stock first.

Its thanks to Top Gear I'm able to remember what's on the inside of a British passport and how it can be used effectively.

@@georgeprout42 ... It may be that you requested it before QE2 passed?? Or not.

here's the attention you ordered 😐👍

That’s pretty cool

@John Wick Thank you for explaining a comment that is not a question

I see spam bots have gotten new catchphrases and are even more annoying.

I also heard that non-Malaysian citizens need a passport to travel between west/peninsular Malaysia & east Malaysia (which is autonomous)?

​@@lzh4950 yes, you're right. It's all in the Malaysia Agreement 1963.

Get a citizenship and stop feeling sorry for yourself. Excuses are a sign of poor character. You had two generations to deal with this shit.

@@B3Band did you not read what I said about working hard for something to be stripped away from me at the end because of my travel document? I doubt you are palestanian (stateless) with a lebanese travel document. Because you'll know how impossible it is to even get a 30 day visa to a country, let alone a citizenship. You're telling me to get a citizenship when im not even allowed to enter my own country (palestine) nor many more around the world. Also, If you don't know, most countries around the world unlike Europe and North America don't give you a citizenship no matter how long you stay in the country. And finally, those were not excuses, doesn't seem like you know what an excuse is. I've tried many things and worked hard, yet I still get rejected cause of my travel document. I didn't say uve given up in my comment and I haven't. So tell me, where did you get the audacity to comment this when you clearly have no idea what being stateless and having a travel document from a falling apart, 3rd world country means? You don't know where I am in life right now, and I honestly don't think it worth my time to tell you all the things I've done the last 5 years of my life.

@@B3Band all this without even mentioning the financial burden. Cause u know more than half of Lebanon is living under poverty rn, they definitely have money to leave

What's a "Palestine"?

@@jonahs92 Its probably some tourist attraction of Israel

It's not a passport. It's a schengen visa.

Pretty certain they're all Ukrainian passports with different visas. 1 says nationality UKR, 2 has the Hungarian embassy in Kiev stamp, 3 has Ukrainian cyrillic, and 4 has a stamp from Hurghada, which gets a lot of tourists from Ukraine and other post-Soviet countries.

@@RusNad Also the Interpol passport mentions Ukrainian name Svitlana

​​@@RusNadope, only the top right is (upside-down особливі відмітки means special notes). Bottom left is definetly not ukrainian - wrong colors (its plain white with national monument like cathedral in the background, holders signature and authority in bottom right and 🔱 Україна 🔱 Ukraine 🔱 at the top )

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I dont get it

@@Tenjooo 0:36

Once I was asked like this, but it wasn't a passport officer.

Estonia and Latvia have a non-citezen passport, for those who have been born in the country prior to 1991 but have no recorded relatives living there pre 1940. These are also called alien passports and somehow the EU is chill enough with it to let these guys be a part of the Union. Why do they meet the criteria of being a member while say Bosnia and Herzegovina doesn't? I can't answer that

Aren't Jordans Palestinians since 97% of Jordan people are descendents of Palestinians

@@Cerg1998 A country doesn't "meet the criteria". A country accepts the list of things they have to do in order to join. Some countries refuse to do certain things on that list.

@@Cerg1998 Bosnia is a territory still under UN-protectorate. The highest executive power lies with the High Representative of the United Nations for Bosnia and Herzegovina, which at the time is Mr. Christian Schmidt. The UN is willing to hand over full souveranity to the Bosnian officials, if the three ethnic groups can agree on a common government, which they cannot. So this temporary status keeps going on for years now. De facto Bosnia and Herzegovina is not a full souverain country by that.

@@ekesandras1481 hmm, interesting, I wonder why I've never heard about that, despite googling it. Thanks.

Not that I'm aware of. I used my UK passport to travel to and from ships, and when turning up in foreign countries. There is a section in the Seaman's book for visa stamps that were used when visiting the Soviet Union, but that hasn't existed for 30 years. There is no special system otherwise. I certainly didn't come across it in the decade I spent working on ships as an EOOW

​@@JSmith19858 I think they mean the seaman's discharge book. The first time someone told me they were gonna 'pull out my seaman's discharge' I nearly choked

@@lauraxx8014 you don't use it to travel. There is no special system, and certainly not one that broke down during Covid. People got stuck on ships because they were kept idled and at anchor

Thanks a lot. I knew I wasn't the only one wondering about this

i thought it was hebrew...

Yeah national insecurity yikes. Obviously people are talking about the Order of Malata and not the British dependency of Malta.

@@greatsageequaltoheaven8115 British dependency?

Insecure lol

@@josephschembri4811i believe its a synonym for crown depenedency

@@josephschembri4811 it's bait, he's misclassifying the country as a dependency on purpose to fuck with you

I love this story. Don't wanna take my regular passport? Here's my trump passport, lays down blue book! 😀

very interesting story.

Kiribati literally has less than 200k people TODAY I doubt it was higher before and I highly doubt it was due to racism, in a pre-internet world verifying that such a small country exists would be difficult.

Hahaha

@John Wick go away

@@bababababababa6124 Just report for spam and move on, dont waste thought on bots

The NK Passport is actually not the worst passport.

@@unknownperson3691 Well, what is?

Do they even have passports in north Korea? I mean they are not allowed to leave the country anyways...

Sounds like the Conch Republic in Key West, Florida...

It's a micronation there's 40K+ of them in existence

@@AndrewAMartin Those actually worked so well they stopped selling them a while back :D

Is it by any chance white people area? Just curious

@@neilnelson7603 That doesn't matter.

I think it was originally posted to Nebula a while ago and Sam just forgot to upload to RU-vid at the same time. Looks like he finally realized the mistake and finally uploaded to RU-vid.

That checks out. I work with an organization that helps refugees in Kenya apply to Western universities and when the students applied for these Conventional Travel Documents (passport) the Kenyan government claimed they were out of the special ink needed to print them. So the UNHCR had to purchase the ink for Kenya

@@oliviasadler5579 I met with some reps from the UNCHR a couple weeks ago in Geneva. They deal with so much shit from everyone it’s insane.

@@Ryanraguseo What about what the UN did to Kenyan women on 2014?

Some Hong Kongers also hold the British National (Overseas) passport originally given out back when HK was still ruled by the UK, & has been used by some to migrate to the UK, but 1 of my friends believe that that passport would've expired once HK returned to China from the UK in 1997. Otherwise the country her family has migrated to would force her to give up her BN(O) passport as it'd be considered a form of dual citizenship (together with the passport of the country she migrated to), which that country doesn't recognize

​@@lzh4950it still can be given out today, you just have to have been born in HK before it was handed over

I believe that when you do speak fluently Latvian, your chances of getting naturalised are quite considerable, though. It's mostly people who don't speak Latvian who are still just 'aliens'.

I mean, if you were in that situation wouldn't the naturalisation test be very easy? Also how does it work for the Schengen area, are they considered Latvian by other countries?

@@My_Old_YT_Account For someone who speak Latvian, the test is easy. For those who don't, they'd need to spend a few months to learn enough to pass it. The test is fair, it's passable for anyone who can put in the effort. Alien passport holders can travel to Schengen Area without a visa, but unlike citizens, they can't stay there permanently or work there without a permit. On the other hand, they are allowed to travel to Russia without a visa, while citizens can't. Basically, those people have an unique legal status and aren't treated like anyone else.

@@My_Old_YT_Account Citizenship is the very right of each EU-Member State. If a country says that they are aliens, not citizens, then they are aliens. But the alien passport can be seen as a residency permit and that may be transferable within the EU. Note that an alien passport (statelessnes) is not the worst situation. Russia regularly denies do issue documents stating that a person is not a russian citizen. Russia even denies to issue a document that they deny a statement. The result is "unknown citizenship" and blocks people from naturalizing and getting stateless travel documents.

@@sarowie Can you provide a source for that? "Russia regularly denies do issue documents stating that a person is not a russian citizen." I can't find anything about that.

I’m sorry dude, that sucks

The Emperor does not issue passports to non-Imps

Aurebesh? I thought it was Ithkuil.

Normally it will mostly just set to either 1.1. or whatever the civil servant decides what he wants to fill in.

In these parts it's the first day of the year that is available, which would usuallt be january 1st but could ve pushed several days into january for really popular years.

Here in Germany it's XX. So it would be XX.XX.1998

In my family we have some, but instead they're at 1st of July

they are given a year of birth with day and month blank. Causes all kinds of problems. Always had to teach people to not use a date type for date of birth from a passport in software.

There are separate Vatican City and Holy See passports, the former primarily for personal passports for citizens of the Vatican who do not need a service passport for their work in the Church and the latter for any person in service to the Holy See regardless of their citizenship status. But since they're both (I would assume) issued by the Pope who is both Monarch of Vatican City and Bishop of Rome it doesn't make as much of a material difference day-to-day.

@@kevinreilly51 oohh, I thought all were Holy See passports 🤔🤔 thanks for the info!

My mum is a Swiss diplomat and I had a diplomatic passport until I moved out. We were only allowed to have one passport so I always had only the diplomatic one. It's probably different rules from country to country.

Someone I went to school with had a US black diplomatic passport and I was very jealous. They were the dependent of US ambassadors.

I remeber the news over here in Paraguay a couple of years ago... Some people that had nothing to do with diplomacy or weren't tied to any official state affair were being given diplomatic passports just to be able to pass border controls faster lol, these people were mainly just rich friends of politicians, so probably there is the reasin why your friend wanted to be careful

Once Estonia became independent again, did the people on those passports get switched to the newly independent Estonia ones?

@@My_Old_YT_Account Yes. These were recognized as the same thing as regaining independence was basically treated as continuing that same state, just now with an actual territory again.

> Is alien passport is kinda those passport of non-nationals given to Russians born(or stayed after soviet union collapse) in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania? Yeah, the middle one in the picture in the video 4:23 is an Estonian Alien's Passport, for example.

And that's no longer valid anywhere outside Central / South America as modern passports require a programmable chip with the passport info and persons biometrics. The chips are WORM (write once read many) so can't be updated. The sticker may be accepted by neighbouring countries but it absolutely won't be accepted by any major countries outside Central / South America.

And last week a shot of the Stone Arch Bridge for the video on Washington DC... the stock footage is getting noticeably minnesotan 😳

Are you referring to the "nothing can stop me"- cheat? Yeah, that'd be pretty nice...

Was looking for someone else to notice 😂