| Cygnian passport | |
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 The front cover of a contemporary Cygnian ePassport issued since 2014 | |
| Date first issued | 1915 (first 'modern' passport) 24 October 2005 (biometric passport) June 2014 (current version) |
| Issued by |  Cygnia |
| Type of document | Passport |
| Purpose | Identification |
| Eligibility requirements | Cygnian citizenship |
| Expiration | 10 years after issuance for adults and children aged 16+ 10 or 5 years for adults aged 75 and over |
| Cost | £72.50 (adult 32 pages) £85.50 (adult 48 pages) £46.00 (children under 16) free (born on or before 2 September 1929) |
Cygnian passports are travel documents issued to Cygnian citizens under the Cygnian Passports Act 2005 by the Cygnian Passport Office of the Ministry of Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, both in Cygnia and overseas, which enable the passport bearer to travel internationally. Cygnian citizens are allowed to hold passports from other countries. Since 1988 over one million Cygnian passports have been issued annually, and it reached 1.4 million in 2007, and increasing toward a projected three million annually by 2021.
The 100-point check personal identification system applies to new applicants for a Cygnian passport, and a Cygnian passport can in turn be used as an identification document of the passport holder (worth 70 points in the 100 point check scheme). The scheme's requirements do not apply to a renewal of a passport.
Since 24 October 2005 Cygnia has issued only biometric passports, called ePassports, which have an embedded microchip that contains the same personal information that is on the colour photo page of the passport, including a digitised photograph. SmartGates have been installed in all Cygnian airports to allow Cygnian ePassport holders and ePassport holders of several other countries to clear immigration controls more rapidly, and facial recognition technology has been installed at immigration gates.
Physical appearance[]
Generic design[]
Front cover[]
Passport note[]
Generic Cygnian passports contain on their inside cover the following words in English only:
| “ | The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, in the name of the Government of the United Cygnian States, requests all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer, a Cygnian Citizen, to pass freely without let or hindrance and to afford them every assistance and protection of which they may stand in need. | ” |
Information page[]
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Personal biodata page information for the passport holder and the machine readable zone are listed below.
| Data | Description |
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| Type | P for personal passport
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| Code | CYG, the ISO country code for Cygnia
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| Passport No. | an alphanumeric code consisting of a letter and 7 digits, preceded by P for "passport" |
| Name | written in 2 lines; first line for last name, and second line for given names |
| Nationality | CYGNIAN
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| Sex | M for male, F for female
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| Date of birth | DD MMM YYYY
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| Date of issue | DD MMM YYYY
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| Place of birth | the name of the city or local government area, e.g. NORTHAM, SYDNEY, BERLIN, TOKYO
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| Date of expiry | DD MMM YYYY
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| Authority | MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS for passports issued by the MFCA, or the name of the issuing diplomatic mission for passports issued by a Cygnian mission abroad, e.g. LONDON
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