Colombian passport

The Colombian passport is a travel document which is issued to citizens of Colombia for the purpose of international travel. Since September 2015 a biometric passport has been issued, but the previously issued machine-readable passport can be used through its expiration date.

Colombian passport
The front cover of a contemporary Colombian biometric passport.
TypePassport
Issued by Colombia
First issuedSeptember 2015 (biometric passport booklet)
PurposeInternational travel
EligibilityColombian citizenship
Expiration10 years
Cost168.000 COP (USD50)

Colombian citizens do not need a passport when traveling to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. For these countries, they may use just their domestic identification cards called Cédula de Ciudadanía.[1][2]

Several drivers resulted in the issuing of the document:

  • The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) issued Resolution No. A36-15 in which it urged its 190 member countries to issue machine-readable passports from 2010. The intent of this resolution was to ensure the security and integrity of travel documents worldwide.
  • Increased safety: The new book has special design features, and print materials that correspond to three levels of security.
  • Allowing quick migration processes: the machine-readable zone facilitates the process of recognition and registration of the passenger when entering or leaving a country, because a machine automatically interprets the information encoded in their passport, which reduces approximately 50% on-call time by immigration agents.

Visa requirements
Main article: Visa requirements for Colombian citizens
Visa requirements for Colombian citizens
  Colombia
  ID card travel
  Visa free access
  Visa on arrival
  eVisa
  Visa available both on arrival or online
  Visa required

As of January 2019, Colombian citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 127 countries and territories, ranking the Colombian passport 44th in terms of travel freedom according to the Henley Passport Index.

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See also

External sources

References
  1. "Acuerdo sobre Documentos de Viaje de los Estados Partes del MERCOSUR y Estados Asociados" (PDF) (in Spanish). mercosur.int. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 August 2013. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  2. "En 2014 se aprobó el "Segundo Acuerdo Modificatorio del Anexo del Acuerdo sobre Documentos de Viaje de los Estados Partes del MERCOSUR y Estados Asociados"" (PDF) (in Spanish). mercosur.int. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 October 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2016.


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