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Why would a passport need to have legal status in the US to be recognized anywhere besides the US?
by shawnz 5y ago
Why would a passport need to have legal status in the US to be recognized anywhere besides the US?
- kadoban 5y agoBecause generally countries care about passports from other countries. It's certainly not a necessity, international/foreign law can be whatever nonsense you want, but that's how it usually works.
- refurb 5y agoBecause countries have specific laws about what constitutes acceptable documents for entry into a country and the usually include things like “issued by a countries recognized and lawful issuer of passports”? Most immigration decisions are negotiated and often reciprocal (you give me visa free travel, I’ll give you visa free travel). Unless a document is specifically recognized as issues from a non-state entity (e.g. UN refugee passports) they aren’t valid travel documents anywhere.
- shawnz 5y agoLike you say yourself it is possible that non-state entities can have their travel documents recognized in some cases. I don't see any reason why that non-state entity couldn't potentially be a US non-profit. Obviously in this particular case, this agency's documents are not widely recognized, but that has nothing to do with their legal status in the US.
- torstenvl 5y agoThe non-state entities that get recognized are usually quasi-states -- Palestine, Taiwan, etc. To recognize a random non-profit based in the capital of a superpower that does not recognize such a thing would be... pretty novel.
- dogma1138 5y agoOther than the historic lineage how different would it be to say SMOM? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta_passport https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_...