Guatemalan passport
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Type | Passport |
Issued by | Instituto Guatemalteco de Migración |
Purpose | Identification & Travel |
Eligibility | Guatemalan Citizenship |
Expiration | 5 years after issuance for individuals |
Guatemalan passports (
Appearance
Like all Central American passports the cover is navy with gold fonts stating the official name of the country in Spanish and in English, the
Passports have a validity of five years and the languages used are Spanish and English.
Security features
The Guatemalan passport contains many security features in it like colored fibers embedded in the pages, a watermark on all pages, and others. Like in the quetzal bills, the passport has an outline of an image on one side and on the other side the image is colored; and when a page is held up against light, the observer is able to see the color on the white outline.
Guatemalan passports are machine readable and contain a
The passport issuing authority is the Dirección General de Migración (General Immigration Directorship), a dependency of the Ministerio de Gobernación (Ministry of the Interior).
Types of Passports
- Ordinarios (Personal) - Issued to Guatemalan citizens for general travel and are requested through the General Immigration Directorship.
- Oficiales (Official) - Issued to Guatemalan employed officials who are holding an office in the government and represent the country. These passports are requested through the General Immigration Directorship.
- Diplomaticos (Diplomatic) - Issued to Guatemalan high-ranking officials that are employed by the government. These passports need to be requested through the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
- Temporales (Temporal) - Issued only to government officials or diplomats who represent the country for a specified period of time.
See also
References
- ^ "The Official Passport Index Ranking". Henley & Partners. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
- Visa requirements by country from the Guatemalan MOFA
- regulation 539/2001 [1]
- regulation 1932/2006 [2]
- Archive-It
- List of nationals who do need a visa to visit the UK [4].
- List of countries whose passport holders do not require visas to enter Ireland [5].