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State-issued travel documents have existed in some form since antiquity; the modern passport was universally adopted and standardized in 1920. [2] The passport takes the form of a booklet bearing the official name and emblem of the issuing government and containing the biographical information of the individual, including their full name ...
On 8 February 2017, a joint CNN and CNN en Español investigation called "Passports in the Shadows" (Spanish: Pasaportes en la sombra) - based on the information provided by a whistleblower and subsequent investigations, reported that employees of the Venezuelan embassy in Baghdad, Iraq has been selling passports and visas to persons from ...
Ordinary Passport – Issued for ordinary travel, such as holidays and business trips.; Diplomatic Passport – Issued to Mexican diplomats, top ranking government officials, diplomatic couriers, and family of the previous on the list, another type of identification Cédula diplomática mexicana is issued for travel when not in official duties, it may be accompanied by an ordinary passport.
The Henley Passport Index is a global ranking of countries according to the travel freedom allowed by those countries' ordinary passports for their citizens. [3] It was launched in 2005 as Henley & Partners Visa Restrictions Index [4] and was updated to Henley Passport Index in January 2018.
It appeared as its own entity on 1934 as the Secretary of State of Education and Fine Arts (Secretaría de Estado de Educación y Bellas Artes), although it wouldn't be until 2000 when it focused exclusively on education. Its headquarters are located at Santo Domingo. Its Minister is Ángel Hernández Castillo, since August 8, 2022.
SAIME (formerly ONIDEX) is a Venezuelan government institution, traditionally in charge of Civil registry services. The name derives from the Spanish acronym for Servicio Administrativo de Identificación, Migración y Extranjería (Administrative Service of Identification, Migration and Foreigners).
It is during the Second Republic that the Secretary of State of External Relations (Secretaría de Estado de Relaciones Exteriores) is created on 1874. During this period, some of the most distinguished men of the time were in charge of Dominican diplomacy, such as Ulises Espaillat , Pedro Francisco Bonó , Manuel de Jesús Galván , among others.
The history of higher education in the Dominican Republic goes back to colonial times.The first academic center was founded by Dominican friars in 1518 and it would later be elevated to a university by the papal bull In Apostolatus Culmine of October 28, 1538. [4]