Panamanian passport

Panamanian passport
The front cover of the new Panamanian biometric passport.
First and second page of a Panama biometric passport
Date first issued	01/06/2014 (biometric passport)
Issued by	Panama
Type of document	Passport
Purpose	Identification
Eligibility requirements	Panamanian citizenship
Expiration	5 years after acquisition
Cost	$100 (ordinary) / $180 (frequent traveler)

A Panamanian passport is the passport issued to citizens of Panama to facilitate international travel. Panamanian citizens enjoy visa-free access to 125 countries and territories.The passports are issued by the Passports Authority of Panama.

Design

The cover of the passport has a dark blue background. The front part of the cover has the words "REPÚBLICA DE PANAMÁ" (Republic of Panama) on top, the coat of arms of Panama in the middle, and the word "PASAPORTE" (passport) on the bottom in Spanish, English and French. All of this is outlined in a grey color. The back part of the cover only has the blue background. The biometric passport symbol appears at the bottom of the front cover under the word "PASSEPORT".

As of January 2016, Panamanian passports are still issued with Panama's old coat of arms, having 9 stars instead of 10. This change took effect in January 2014.

Identity information page

Data Page of a Panama biometric passport

The Panamanian passport includes the following data on the identity information page:

Photograph of the owner/holder (digital image printed on page)
Type (P)
Code (PAN)
Nationality
Passport Number
Surname
Given Names
Sex (Gender)
Personal Number
Place of Birth (only the country is listed, even if born inside Panama)
Authority
Holder's signature (digital image printed on page)
Date of Issue
Date of Expiry
Machine Readable Zone starting with P<PAN

Languages

The identity information page is printed in Spanish and English.

Visa pages

The passport contains 32 pages for visas. Each with a construction or project of the 2009-2014 government of the Panama. The pages include the following:

MetroBus
Construction of the Panama Metro (Pages 2 and 18)
'Cadena de Frio' Market (Pages 3 and 27)
Educational Centres of Curundú
Cinta Costera (Pages 5 and 15)
New prison system (Pages 7 and 24)
$100 at 70
Panama Canal expansion
'Irving Saladino' housing complex
Madden Highway
Hospital city
Tocumen International Airport (Pages 12 and 28)
Enrique Malek International Airport
Río Hato Airport
Curundú Project (Midsection, pages 16 and 17)
Casco Viejo renovation
'December 24' Hospital
Social Interest Housing
Internet For Everyone
Country Brand
'Gazas de Pacora' primary care centre
Governmental City
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez Airport
Renewable energy
Student school supplies
City sanitation

Passport message

All passports contain the following message:

In Spanish:

El Gobierno de la República de Panamá solicita a las autoridades nacionales y extranjeras, brindarle al titular del presente pasaporte, las facilidades para su normal tránsito, asistencia y protección necesaria, así como las debidas consideraciones y reciprocidad en casos similares o que así lo amerite.

In English:

The Government of the Republic of Panama request the national and foreign authorities to provide the holder of this passport with the required support to facilitate his/her normal transit, the assistance, and the necessary protection, as long as the due considerations and reciprocity are mutual.

In French:

Le Gouvernement de la République du Panama demande aux autorités nationales et étrangères de fournir au titulaire du présent passeport les moyens nécessaires à son déplacement normal , l'assistance et la protection nécessaires , ainsi que l'attention requise dans un cadre mutuel el réciproque.

Visa requirements

Main article: Visa requirements for Panamanian citizens

Visa requirements for Panamanian citizens

In 2015, Panamanian citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 127 countries and territories, ranking the Panamanian passport 36th in the world according to the Visa Restrictions Index.^[1]

Electronic passport

Panama unveiled an electronic passport, in late 2012, with a supposed implementation in 2013, in either March, or October.^[2]^[3] Because of this, it was necessary to present a travel reservation to request a passport for the first time; older, expired passports (with expiration dates after December 2007) merely had their validity extended.^[4]

In January 2014 Panama finally started issuing electronic passports to its citizens. Its cost increased from $50 to $100, and the inside contains images of recent government projects.^[5]

Types

Ordinary passport (Grey outline) - Issued for ordinary travel, such as holidays and business trips.
Diplomatic passport (Gold outline) - Issued to Panamanian diplomats, top ranking government officials and diplomatic couriers.
Emergency travel document - Issued when Panamanians lose the document outside of Panama and must return home.. Must be ordered at a Panamanian embassy or consulate.

Passport Fees

Fees as at 1 January 2014^[6]
Type of Citizen	32 Pages	64 Pages
Regular	$100	$180
Retired	$50	$90

Pavlo Lazarenko scandal

In 1998 Pavlo Lazarenko, the former Prime minister of Ukraine was arrested as he tried to enter Switzerland. He was found to be carrying an apparently valid Panamanian passport, although Ukrainian citizenship did not permit dual nationality.^[7]

References

↑ https://www.henleyglobal.com/files/download/HP/hvri/HP%20Visa%20Restrictions%20Index%20160223.pdf
↑ TVN En marzo entrará en vigencia el pasaporte electrónico
↑ La Prensa Pasaporte digital, a partir de octubre
↑ Dirección Nacional de Pasaportes Nuevo Requisito Temporal
↑ La Prensa Nuevo pasaporte, instrumento para hacer política
↑ http://apap.gob.pa/pasaportes/pasaporte-por-primera-vez/
↑ Satzewich, Vic The Ukrainian diaspora ISBN 978-0-415-29658-8

Sources

Council regulation 539/2001
Council regulation 1932/2006
Council regulation 539/2001 consolidated version, 19.1.2007
List of nationals who do need a visa to visit the UK .
List of countries whose passport holders do not require visas to enter Ireland .
Embassy of Panama in Washington D.C. http://www.embassyofpanama.org
See also http://www.embassyofpanama.org/cms/registry2.php for Canal Zone registry.
Panama's Immigration and Naturalization Department http://www.migracion.gob.pa
List of countries whose passport holders do and do not need visas to travel to Panama http://www.embassyofpanama.org/pdf/consulate_documents/clasificacion_de_visas.pdf from the Embassy of Panama in Washington D.C.
See also http://www.mire.gob.pa Panama's foreign affairs ministry. (Spanish page only)
For Passport applications and procedures http://www.gobiernoyjusticia.gob.pa Panama's government and justice ministry (Spanish page only)
Panama Passport Agency (Spanish page only) http://www.pasaporteordinario.gob.pa/

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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