The Bahamian passport is issued to citizens of the
Bahamas for international travel.
As of March 2019, Bahamian citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 154 countries and territories, ranking the Bahamian passport 26th in terms of travel freedom according to the
Henley visa restrictions index.
Passport message
Passports contain a message, to other countries stating that the bearer of the passport is a citizen of the country, and to provide him or her safe passage. The message reads:
"These are to request and require in the name of the
Governor-General
Governor-general (plural ''governors-general''), or governor general (plural ''governors general''), is the title of an office-holder. In the context of governors-general and former British colonies, governors-general are appointed as viceroy t ...
of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance and to afford him or her every assistance and protection of which he or she may stand in need."
Appearance
A regular passport is navy blue, with the
Coat of arms of The Bahamas emblazoned on the front cover. The words "COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS" and "PASSPORT" along with the international e-passport symbol are below. The passport contains 50 pages for entry/exit stamps and visas. Additionally, the biodata page is made of
polycarbonate
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.
Data page
* Type (PA)
* Country code (BHS)
* Passport No.
*Photo of the holder
* Surname
* Given Names
* Nationality (Bahamian)
* Date of Birth
* Sex
* Place of Birth
*
National Insurance Number
* Date of issuance
* Date of expiry
* Place of Issue
The information ends with the
Machine Readable Zone
A machine-readable passport (MRP) is a machine-readable travel document (MRTD) with the data on the identity page encoded in optical character recognition format. Many countries began to issue machine-readable travel documents in the 1980s.
Mos ...
beginning in PABHS.
See also
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Visa requirements for Bahamian citizens
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Caribbean passport
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List of passports
References
External links
Bahamian passport requirements
Bahamas
Government of the Bahamas
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