Why Do Passports Only Come In 4 Colours?
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0:43 and the UK having a unicorn is okay?
I can't believe I didn't know the UK passport had a unicorn until this comment, I've looked at it so many times..
ibx2cat it’s because the national animal of Scotland is a unicorn
Scotland is cute
Darn gays n' their political correctness gettin' our passports
Wales has a dragon
Fun fact: Japanese passports are only red if it’s a 10 year passport. 5 year passports are a blue colour instead of red. I don’t know any other countries that do this.
Brazil. Light blue and dark blue
Philippine passports come in red/burgundy. Diplomatic Philippine passports come in blue.
Thanks guys. I had a thought it might not just be Japan 👍
Japan also has green passports for public servants (director level and above) and brown diplomatic passports.
Regular passports for German citizens are burgundy temperorary ones (valid only for a couple of weeks - which you for example get if you lose yours abroad) are green. Those for diplomats are black and those for people travelling on the state's behalf without being diplomats are bright red. I think most countries use different colours for different kinds of pasports.
Next EU parliament session:
MEP: who wants to change all member countries's passports to blue so the UK will have to change theirs again?
Everyone:🤚
Tizio Incognito yeah right
Croatia is a EU country which has blue passports.
@@Nightraven26 yeah i know
Blue with gold/yellow text would make more sense as being part of EU. Also add the stars around the emblem, like how you have stars around the country name on the border crossings. Just an idea.
Blue makes more sense for the EU. That's their color. Green for islamic nations makes sense. Red for former brittish colonies makes more sense than blue, even if blue also works almost equally. My instict says orange or yellow for latin american countries and gold for Asian countries.
I had a Yellow British passport once. I’d lost my passport in Thailand. A temporary passport was arranged and delivered next day. It lasted two days and I had to surrender it at passport control on my return to the UK. Oh and it only had one blank page in it. Apart from that it looked exactly like a normal one.
Woah yellow
0:41 fun fact, the British Passport really does have a unicorn on it, at least a kangaroo is real. 🇬🇧🇦🇺
Wait till Scotland gets independent. Hahaha
@@sohopedeco wont happen pedro.
The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland
Kangaroos ain't real
@@fdsdh1
I know, my comment was meant in good humour. That's why I included the flags.
The colour green is symbolic for paradise in the Quran
It's also the colour of bile and vomit
@@Alibm80 it is also the colour of shrek so I don't see ur point
@@charliesmith2093 I like Shrek
shrek is my god
It's also the color of money in capitalism.
Countries copying each other is definitely a thing though. Here in Finland it's a trope that the government can't do anything unless it's already been done in Sweden. I assume there's something similar for many other countries.
Finland also used to have blue passports and but changed to burgundy with EU membership. For a time it was somewhat popular to get blue dust jacket style covers.
I had a green jacket on my passport till it fell apart. Must get a new one.
Same for Estonia! Used to be blue but became burgundy. Or they just copied Finland and followed along. 😂
Whatever the the Netherlands is up to, 10 years from now Belgium will also be up to.... so yes copying close countries is a thing.
I've been told many states have that I can't think of any for mine but I hear pensilvania has that with new york
“Black with no real connection to the countries”
New Zealand: “am I a joke to you”
He said no connection BETWEEN the countries. New Zealand has no particular connection with the other countries that have black passports.
how is that a woosh?
*all blacks intensifies*
Ironically, the new UK post-Brexit passport using the dark blue color to distance itself from the EU, is in fact 100% made in EU.
I‘m swiss. I looked for our passports on the screen and thought you had no reason to mention it. But then you did in such a nice way. Idk why but it made me kinda proud for no reason. Lol
Couldn't agree more (Bünzliträne)
Same here for México
The first time I saw a Swiss passport, I thought it was red cross ID card 😅
15:44 I'm glad you showed what that mysterious black passport in the middle of the red ones was.
yeah the image was badly photographed, it's a red (burgundy)
So papers please is actually a true sim of the old soviet union :). Seeing all these passports makes me want to play it again.
Fun fact: In Australia you can request an "Extra Large" passport (can't remember the official name) that is black instead of blue.
That is so fucking stupid, i am now moving to Australia.
Large in the sense it has more pages? Not in the sense it's bigger? 😂
@@kiradotee Yes it has more pages, should've specified that 😂. They gave one to my dad after he came back with a full standard one only halfway to expiry.
extra large with fries?
The US has an XL passport but it’s blue as well.
Broke: Estados Unidos Mexicanos
Woke:
*ESTA-DOS UNI-DOS M E X I-D O S*
United Mexed States
I just love that it's literally the United States of Mexico
as a chicano, this made me chuckle. but i appreciate the shoutout nonetheless
I thought you would mentioned the British National (overseas) passport when you were talking about different types of British passports. It’s kind of cool because eventually there will be no holders of this passport: while holders of this passport could renew their BNO when it is expired, HMPO stopped accepting new applications since 1997 after the handover of Hong Kong, also holders could not pass this nationality/passport to their spouses/children. This passport will have no holders when all of them pass away.
0:46 the UK is a former British colony
....... the uk is britan and its the owner of the colony's and not a colony it self
Everything is a British Colony. You just have to believe
@@fabianpro9909 Imperial German Reich is a former German colony
Well your not technically wrong
New New Milo no
I feel like some colour decisions historically may be down to the dyes that were common or widely available within the country. Although that's less relevant to changes in colours today.
Passports basically didn't exist until the twentieth century, so the dyes available in olden times don't really directly affect them
I feel like the Central American countries are just not well known, so they put their geographical location on the cover. As an example, I got detained at a Chinese boarder crossing because of a "Fake country's visa in my passport." They didn't know Guatemala existed until I pointed it out on a map to them.
toycats gunna be stealin' passports to get those "Clean" and "Cool" passports
Yeah I collect passports. I put them next to my social security card collection
Well, why not. Just ask the person if you can have theirs when it runs out. They just have to remove the card inside to get rid of the personal data, but everything else should be able to be left in there.
Forgot to mention BN(O) passport used in Hong Kong, it has gained notice after the Hong Kong protesters used it to claim that they are British, and the U.K. should protect them.
however the Hong Kong passport is practically more powerful than the BNO passport
@@fcheung4214 power means nothing if it isn't for the country you want protecting you.
About internal passports. I have one since I was 16. In Ukraine and other post-soviet countries, those are the main means of identification. And it has a place for stamps, mostly about marriage status, and local authority (from the district you are living in) and stamps about you having an international passport. Generally if somewhere you see documentation list that mentions "passport" it means internal one, if not specified otherwise. Plus, you should fill in a new photo every 20 years or so. When ID card implementation started, elder generations protested. It looks like they do not even see the total absurdity of it. And, it is dark blue colored, with a design generally similar to the international one.
Shows black passport of Croatia: “As you can see, they are very much a blue passport”.
Croatian passport indeed is very dark blue - almost black but still blue. (I am from Croatia so I have one.)
lol yeah like in clothes store if you ask for some blue clothes sometimes they will show you super dark blue one that defeats the whole purpose of wanting blue in the first place... lol
Your passport do not write English name of country.
I believe Unija is suppose to be read as [ooniya] in English. In most European languages j is a letter for English 'y'
That is correct. It's a common word for "union" in Slavic languages.
Why did you put it in brackets
@@LVP201 thats how people usually show phonetic reading. Well, usually in phonetic alphabet, but I don't know one =)
ACoral it's meant for IPA but correctly it would be [unijə]
@@LVP201 I see a trouble here))) It wil not show English-speaking people how to read j, in case they do not know IPA.
5:00 fun fact because guatemala claims belize if you look closly at the map on the passport it has the lines going into belize
I think the black passports look really cool actually, there's something suave and sleek about a dark one like that
edit: hope you all are having a decent day
Can confirm. I've one of them. definitely stands out among all those blues and burgundy/reds
New Zealand passport = best passport.
Best would be if we could choose our own pantone colour for our passport :)
In Ukraine we have unique pictures on each page of our passports. It depict historical artefacts, chronicles, castles and all the other stuff - going from the fist page to the last is like a history speedrun.
It has a lot more interesting design on the inside, then on the outside; so I wonder what is the inner design of passports of other counties..?
Are you talking about the pages, where you get visas and entry/exit stamps?
@@Dumpy332 yes.
Same with Uzbekistan; pretty sure most countries have them
Same we had in Belgium until a week ago. Now the new Belgian passports are comic trips characters sticker collectable books (look it up on youtube)
I think countries use discrete colors to make it less obvious where someone holding their passport is from. It's cool with unique colors though, likr Fiji's. The Netherlands could have orange and Ireland green.
I can add a few facts about Russian passports.
There was and still no ID except internal passport. Other documents like driving license or ISIC (student card) can identify you, but they are not accepted as official ID. Even passport for traveling abroad is not valid as an ID within Russia.
Internal passport is red, like passport for traveling abroad. At first internal passports weren't given to all villagers, so they couldn't travel within USSR without approval. And regular people couldn't get passport for traveling abroad, but it could be some kind of reward.
Norway have different colors depending on type of passport:
Normal: Red (used to be darker than today)
Provisional/Emergencey: White (used to be orange or turquoise)
Diplomatic: Blue
Forigner travel document: White (used to be black)
This is so much fun, and to see how colours can convey powerful meaning and the different designs
Actually had a bright pink passport for a trip to Bulgaria once. Thought they were in the Schengen agreement since they are an EU member but, at least at the time, they weren't so couldn't use my national ID to board the plane and had to go to the airport police station to get a temporary one made. Whish I took a pic of it since they took it back and destroyed it when I returned to Sweden.
Never thought id like learning about passport colors
Just to clarify about Russian internal passport, they're not required to travel inside the country any more after the collapse of the communist regime. They're just just for identification. And, also you get some stamps in there if a child is born to you or if you get married / divorced, or if you have to serve in the army
Oddly enough my first passport (US) that I got in 1994 was green. So the US wasn’t always blue. Edit: I just looked it up and they issued green passports from April ’93 to March ‘94 in honor of Benjamin Franklin and the 200th anniversary of the US consular service.
Wow, I had no idea. I bet those got some weird looks!
Canada uses 4 different passport colours. Blue is the standard passport. Red is diplomatic. Green is the non-diplomatic government employee (often military being sent overseas). White is the temporary passport (valid for 6 months) issued to citizens abroad who lose their passport and require one. There's also emergency travel documents for time sensitive situations but they aren't technically a passport.
Most countries also do that i mean u.s has like 5 britian has 4 nothing special... we are talking about individual normal passports for every country.
Funny how you talked about Russian internal passports, but did't mentioned at all Latvija's alien and non-citizen passports, which is basically segregation existing in modern day.
You literally "talked about the world and stuff" and didnt actually say it. 🤔
aight time to die
/s
There was an arrest made of a few guys with a substantial amount of cocaine and cannabis on board their car which th ey picked up in Barcelona.
They were travelling on a diplomatic passport which I am fairly certain linked back to the librarian of the Vatican City.
So diplomatic are not always 100% exempt
I renewed my passport a month ago and they’re going to change it before I can use it
Changing it the second time! First change (the one you have) is the burgundy passport without the "European Union" wording.
Current passports probably will be valid till they expire. At least that's how it's normally done. The only time I remember when people were forced to change their old passports to new ones was in Latvia around 2006-2007, when new security features were introduced, and senior citizens who somehow had their early 90's passports still valid had to change them. Those who had their passports changed in early 2000's could keep them till they expire. They did face some limitations though.
@@jur4x yeah not probably, it was mentioned a lot of times by the government that current passports remain valid until their expiry date.
In Mercosul (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay) all passports are blue and similar to each other, but you can travel to all four countries just with your ID card.
Thank you for producing quality content good sir. Learned more from RUclips than school tbh.
The US passport is ranked 6th most powerful in the world with 184 countries that are visa free or garenteed visa on entry.
The US has a normal passport that is blue, an official passport that is brown, and a black diplomatic passport.
We also have a passport card, but it can only be used for land and sea travel to Bermuda, Canada, the Caribbean region, and Mexico.
My country ducking rocks!
Fun fact, the UK had/has bright pink color passport for foreigners. Certain Polish master of loosing passports (lost three on one expedition) learned that the hard way.
In Nepal, general public gets green passport, public servants get black and the VIPs get red passport, which is the diplomatic passport and gets you places with less hassle
Thanks for these videos mate!
I guess the “little red book” is not only restricted to China 😉
Singapore and Malaysia have red passports
I want a country to use a yellow one
or Khaki. That would be weird one.
That could be Sweden, because yellow is Sweden's main color in sports
Norwegian emergency passports from 2020 might be yellow
A darker golden colour then.
I think there's a passport of the Holy See and other of the Vatican, not sure
I wish Ireland had a green passport… gold and green would be such a good fit for them.
Haven't left the US since 2013, this was a really cool video, had to check my own passport after watching. Italy is...red..!? I'm colorblind. Thanks for the knowledge Toycat!
Nice, see you in some years when RUclips recommends this
i have an in between one - it’s still burgundy but it doesn’t have “European Union” at the top
I remember flying between Madrid and London, and on the tram to the plane being the only person without a burgundy passport. I felt weird being the lone person with a blue passport.
really happy that he likes the swiss passport the most
Feels like England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should have distinct passports.
Imagine them getting different rankings.
"Scots are welcome but we don't want any damn Welsh here"
Alias Anybody it would make Scottish separation a lot easier
England and Scotland already get representation in the passport. You don't see individual American states like Texas or California with their own passports
Kingketo W.R didn’t realise that Scottish passports were different from English ones. The USA is a single country, the UK is four, even if it is in a sort of conjoined twin style, so it’s not really analogous (though I suppose the Native American territories are sort of separate).
@@joemacleod-iredale2888 There isn't a Scottish or English passport there is a British one. And the British passport like the Flag and the Country is composed of symbols and elements from the countries within it, like Scotland's Unicorn or England's Lion.
My passport is invisible, because I don’t have one anymore...
Mangolishus my girlfriend’s father stole money from a government bank and disappeared 20 years ago. As a result her passport has become worthless due to the family punishment systems of the People’s Republic and North Korea.
@@cinnamondan4984 is she North Korean?
vitali Chinese
I never had a passport in the first place
@@cinnamondan4984 That sounds like a good system ... punish innocent people.
Isn't there some kind of human right violation, and is there any help UN could provide to move to a country that respects people as individuals?
When I was in the Soviet Union in my teens those internal passports also granted or denied access to some stores (with full shelves).
Swiss has always been my favourite too! My British and Irish one look the same now too faded beyond recognition
Ibxcat, what do you think of the CANZUK idea? Personally, I support it as we see the UK, NZ, and Canada as our best friends. There was a recent survey done n which people had to list the countries they felt the most affection towards. NZ was in first place, followed by the UK, then Canada. And on the subject of the Australian passport, when I travel overseas the immigration officials in the airport always spend ten minutes looking at all the pictures of animals in our passports. It's like they've just discovered fire or something.
Fun fact there’s a unicorn on the British passport because it’s the national animal of Scotland
The UK left the EU on a a tacit (unmentionable, even?) policy of not changing "from purple to green". ;) ;) ;) ;)
I think we have opposite aesthetic tastes. Switzerland's passport makes me sad. Lots of "busy" ones are fascinating and beautiful to me. It's real money versus those empty-space white euros. The euro is awkward and ugly, but lots of countries have beautiful currencies.
What a fascinating subject to talk about! I really like this and hope you will continue. By the way, what was the site named with the passports and various criteria?
Passport index :)
@@ibx2cat Thank you. I had a blast going through it more slowly than you did. :) Have a great day. Are you going to do a show about Harry and M Markle leaving Britian? Hope so :)
@@patricksmith3135 no one cares about those traitors.
The only difference between an American Samoa National's passport and the normal USA passport is a statement printed inside that says the holder is a National of the United States of America. The reason is American Samoans are not necessarily born US Citizens. Bit of a weird situation, but American Samoa was never "incorporated" into the US, but is a territory. No other inhabited US territory is classed like this.
Welcoming is based on how many foreign country passports have visa-free access. In general, countries (esp. poorer ones) that rely more on tourism as a growth industry (the Caribbean states, Philippines as examples) will make access as easy as they can to make it a more attractive tourist destination.
European countries 'accept' more than the US/CAN/AUS because of the EU's Schengen agreement, otherwise they'd be within the same range as the US/CAN/AUS .
China has half the US' number in terms of countries that have visa-free access to it, it's just that the color gradient doesn't show it very well (basically you were right about them not really being in the same category). I'm pretty sure it's to do with the Chinese gov't rarely agreeing with visa-free access unless it was reciprocated (that's not the case with most developing countries).
Cool black New Zealand passport at 8:30, but seems that you've not shown it on your map at 2:55...
looking forward to getting my blue boy 11:42 same thing in china today
Uk gets to sit with the cool kids again.
😢🇪🇺
Standard Passports have to be size B7 when closed. (B6 when opened flat)
You can do pretty much anything you want with a Russian travel passport except live for more than 3 months or work or buy a property. But if you want an internal passport it's almost impossible to get on if you're not Russian and if you do get one you have to serve in the military if your under 27.
I don't care if my passport is pink with green dots and purple stripes so long as it gets me to where I'm going with minimum fuss.
Just one thing, around 10:00 when you say diplomats using a Queen's Messenger passport can take their gear through: only gear that has been sealed by the British mission, not their personal items nor their person. A diplomat's private luggage and person will still be screened by security.
....not true at all, diplomatic bags cannot be interfered with personal or not, also you cannot stop the person and do a search on them either. it is a direct violation op diplomatic law.
The UK should have gone with something crazy like pink or yellow.
The preview image showed 5 colours though: Black, Red, Maroon, Blue and Green.
I'm from Uzbekistan, and we have 2 passports: internal passport which is green and travel one which is dark red
Speaking of which - why do all passports have the same shape? Why Not a long narrow passport or a quare book passport or a triangle passport? OR how cool would it be to have a passport shaped like an ancient scroll
The US had a green passport. My first one (which I still have), 1968, was green. My next one, 1975, was blue.
China's current Hukou system is pretty much like USSR's internal passport thing. It does have fewer restrictions for short trips compared to the USSR's system, but if you want to move to another city and to use the local social resources there (ie. healthcare, transit discount, education, housing, etc.) you need to officially immigrate which can be a very lengthy and difficult process, especially for moving into the largest cities like Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. We often joke that it's probably easier for Chinese citizens to migrate to a foreign country, get citizenship, and move back to China as a naturalized citizen (when you'll have much larger freedom to choose your Hukou) than to move internally in China.
Juropska juniđa
Well done Toycat, well done
The US used to (not sure if they still do) issue green temporary passports to Americans who lose their passports while overseas and need an emergency one prepared by the local embassy. And I've seen brown US Military Passports as well.
My husband was born in the USSR but couldn't get a replacement passport for a while after the collapse (we were in the US), but because he had a US green card, he was issued a US Travel Document which looks like a US Passport but is white. It can only be used to re-enter the US since he didn't have a valid passport from anywhere else.
One of the reasons he struggled to renew his passport was because we were in what's now Ukraine when the USSR collapsed and were just about to leave for the US. Ukraine hadn't started issuing passports yet, so we had to take his USSR passport to some government office, where they literally took a sharpie/vivid and crossed out "CCCP" and handwrote "Ukraine", chucked a stamp and signature on it, and it was all good to leave (getting it renewed was a totally different mess).
What do you think about the size of the emblem on passports
I think Lebanon, Israel, Cyprus, New Zealand, and Japan are the nicest.
Just got my Russian Passport 5 months after getting my Russian Citizenship approved!
Wow! What country are you immigrating from?
@@sohopedeco Germany
@@command_unit7792 а нахуя, если не секрет?
@@command_unit7792 Russia is certainly a surprising choice.
Why go from Germany to Russia?
Do you still keep your German passport?
I am happy I am early keep up the great videos
in northern ireland we can get a british and irish passport
canada but it is modeled after the swiss passport 🥺
"ja" in Unija reads as "oo-knee-ya" with "ya" at the end, like in "yankee"
It's interesting that the map categorizes Mexico's passport as black because it is actually dark green.
Passport design tier list
Andrew, Do you think that countries that likes to use gold in their currencies should use "golden passports"?
Wish we’d go to a Royal Purple colour passport, instead of back to blue. I think that would be cool.
Toy cat: "Why Do Passports Only Come In 4 Colours?"
Shows 5. More if you count light and dark shades as different colours.
Would have been awfully nice to include the passport ranking page ;)
Do a video rating the look of passport
The emus and kangaroos bullied the Australians into putting them on their passport
I'm looking for a comment that answers the titular question without taking 17 min. Anyone care to reply? Might help others like me, looking for the answer.
Turkey just changed from burgundy to blue btws
But yeah, calling it four colours is basically an opinon. Some people might consider burgundy as a fifth colour; brown. Some regions separate the lighter and darker shades of blue, so that would make if five-six colours. Then you got regions not separating blue and green, so they might claim there only being three colours. - So stating there's only four colours is, misleading I would say, and it sounds like you kinda agree? - I would like to group the very dark passports as black, or group some of the black ones as brown. I'd simply want to regroup all of this :)
Red, green, black, and blue are the classical heraldic colours, while gold (yellow) and silver (white) are the metals. So it's no coincidence.
I have a blue passport