The Nicaraguan passport is issued to citizens of
Nicaragua
Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the countr ...
for international travel. As of 1 January 2017, Nicaraguan citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 112 countries and territories, ranking the Nicaraguan passport 46th in terms of travel freedom (tied with Marshallese passport) according to the
Henley visa restrictions index.
The current Nicaraguan passport has 89 security features, including bidimensional
barcode
A barcode or bar code is a method of representing data in a visual, machine-readable form. Initially, barcodes represented data by varying the widths, spacings and sizes of parallel lines. These barcodes, now commonly referred to as linear or o ...
s, holograms, and watermarks, and is reportedly one of the least forgeable documents in the world.
Appearance
Like all Central American passports, the cover is navy blue with gold letters indicating the official name of the country in Spanish; at the top it has the words Centroamérica and in the middle a map of Central America showing the territory of Nicaragua shaded. At the bottom it has a text indicating the type of passport.
The passport consists of 48 pages. It is 124 mm in width and 86 mm in height.
Identification page
* Photo of the passport holder
* Type ("P" for passport)
* Code of the country
* Passport serial number
* Surname and first name of the passport holder
* Citizenship
* Date of birth (DD. MM. YYYY)
* Gender (M for men or F for women )
* Place of birth
* Date of issue (DD. MM. YYYY)
* Passport holder's signature
* Expiry date (DD. MM. YYYY)
* Issuing authority
Validity
Passports for people over 16 years of age are valid for ten years and for people under 16 years of age for five years.
See also
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Visa requirements for Nicaraguan citizens
Visa most commonly refers to:
*Visa Inc., a US multinational financial and payment cards company
** Visa Debit card issued by the above company
** Visa Electron, a debit card
** Visa Plus, an interbank network
*Travel visa, a document that allows ...
*
Central America-4 passport
The Central America-4 passport (also called the Central American passport) is a common-design passport issued by the Central America-4 Border Control Agreement member states ( El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua). Although the desi ...
References
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Council regulation
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539/200
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Council regulation
Regulation is the management of complex systems according to a set of rules and trends. In systems theory, these types of rules exist in various fields of biology and society, but the term has slightly different meanings according to context. Fo ...
1932/200
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Council regulation
Regulation is the management of complex systems according to a set of rules and trends. In systems theory, these types of rules exist in various fields of biology and society, but the term has slightly different meanings according to context. Fo ...
539/2001 consolidated version, 19.1.200
* List of nationals who do need a visa to visit the U
* List of countries whose passport holders do not require visas to enter Irelan
Passports by country, Nicaragua
Government of Nicaragua
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