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A Philippine passport is a travel document and is a Primary National ID issued to citizens of the Philippines. It is issued by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Philippine diplomatic missions abroad, with certain exceptions. Besides facilitating international travel and conferring diplomatic assistance to Filipinos overseas, a Philippine passport is considered a primary form of identification in the Philippines particularly because there is no national identity card system in the country. The Department of Foreign Affairs began issuing maroon machine-readable passports on September 17, 2007, and biometric passports on August 11, 2009. The green colored cover non-electronic passports are still valid until they expire. Philippine passports are printed at the Security Plant Complex of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. ==History== The nature of passports in Pre-Hispanic and Spanish-Era Philippines is generally unknown, and the earliest forms have been issued since the Philippines gained independence from the United States in 1946. Passports were ordered to be printed in Filipino for the first time under Diosdado Macapagal, to be subsequently implemented under Ferdinand Marcos. Currently, it is printed in Filipino with English translations. With the adoption of the current constitution in 1987, the power of issuing passports was transferred from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the current Department of Foreign Affairs. The Philippine Passport Act 1996 governs the issuance of Philippine passports and travel documents. Philippine passports are only issued to citizens, while travel documents (under Section 13) may be issued to citizens who have lost their passports overseas as well as permanent residents who cannot obtain passports or travel documents from other countries. 〔(Republic Act No. 8239: Philippine Passport Act of 1996 )〕 On May 1, 1995, green covers were instituted on regular passports for the first time, and barcodes were inserted in passports in 2004. The new security-enhanced passport is a pre-requisite to the issuance of new machine-readable passports which was issued on September 17, 2007.〔(Old RP passports out, new hi-tech passports in ), ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs, August 16, 2007〕 The Philippines used to be one of the few countries in the world and formerly the only country in Southeast Asia that did not issue machine-readable regular passports,〔(DFA: ‘RP passport exposes Filipinos to discrimination’ ), Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 13, 2007〕 although machine-readable official passports have been issued since June 18, 2007.〔(DFA issues machine-readable passports to govt execs ), Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 13, 2007〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Philippine passport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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