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Type: Passport: Issued by: Department of State: First issued: 1775 (first version)1926 (booklet)1981 (machine-readable passport)December 30, 2005 (diplomatic biometric passport booklet)
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Etymological sources [example needed] show that the term "passport" may derive from a document required by some medieval Italian states in order for an individual to pass through the physical harbor (Italian passa porto, "to pass the harbor") or gate (Italian passa porte, "to pass the gates") of a walled city or jurisdiction.
The four-story chancery building, housing the ambassador's office, faces Avenue Gabriel and the gardens of the Champs-Élysées; it is beside the Hôtel de Crillon. [3] It was built in 1931, following the demolition of an existing building, the Hôtel Grimod de La Reynière. [5]
A Venezuelan passport. Visa requirements for Venezuelan citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Venezuela.. As of 2024, Venezuelan citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 127 countries and territories, ranking the Venezuelan passport 46th in the world according to the Henley Passport Index.
Colombian passport (Spanish: Pasaporte colombiano) is a travel document which is issued to nationals of Colombia for the purpose of international travel. Since September 2015, a biometric passport has been issued, but the previously issued machine-readable passport can be used until its expiration date.
Cuban Americans (Spanish: cubanoestadounidenses [3] or cubanoamericanos [4]) are Americans who immigrated from or are descended from immigrants from Cuba.As of 2023, Cuban Americans were the fourth largest Hispanic and Latino American group in the United States after Mexican Americans, Stateside Puerto Ricans and Salvadoran Americans.
Jose Antonio Vargas (born February 3, 1981) is a journalist, filmmaker, and immigration rights activist. Born in the Philippines and raised in the United States from the age of twelve, he was part of The Washington Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting in 2008 for coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting online and in print. [2]