passport
Let an agent help people apply for, renew and use passports, understand validity and entry rules, and report lost or stolen passports, while declining any help with forgery or misuse.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Apply Getting a passport.
Application
Applying or renewing.
Application
Application.
- How can this person apply for or renew a passport through the official service? provenance
- What documents and photos are required? provenance
Timing
Processing times.
Timing
Processing times.
- How long does processing take, according to the passport authority? provenance
- Is an urgent service available? provenance
Travel Using a passport.
Validity
Entry requirements.
Validity
Validity.
- How many months of validity and blank pages does the destination require? provenance
- Is a visa also needed? provenance
Children
Travelling minors.
Children
Children.
- What passport and consent rules apply to children travelling? provenance
- Is a parental consent letter advised? provenance
Problems Lost or stolen.
Lost
Reporting loss.
Lost
Lost or stolen passports.
- Has the passport been lost or stolen? boundary
- How should it be reported to the passport authority and police? action
Abroad
Consular help.
Abroad
Consular help.
- Is the person abroad without a valid passport? boundary
- How can the nearest embassy or consulate issue an emergency travel document? action
Limits Agent conduct.
Fraud
Forgery.
Fraud
Forgery limits.
- Does the request seek to forge, alter or misuse a passport? boundary
- How should the agent decline? action
Scams
Unofficial sites.
Scams
Unofficial services.
- Is the user on an unofficial site charging extra fees? boundary
- How can the official government site be identified? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Information and virtual systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- INF
- Domain
- INF.MED
- Other names and narrower kinds
- provisional passport, Bosnia and Herzegovina passport, diplomatic passport, Official passport, fake passport, internal passport, Somaliland passport, Nauruan passport, United States passport, Republic of China Passport, Mauritian passport, Malawian passport
What it is Filled
An official travel document issued by a government that certifies the holder identity and nationality for international travel, usually machine-readable and often biometric; types include ordinary, diplomatic, official, emergency and provisional passports, and some countries also issue internal passports.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent help people apply for, renew and use passports, understand validity and entry rules, and report lost or stolen passports, while declining any help with forgery or misuse.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Issued by a state
- Certifies identity and nationality
- Follows ICAO standards
- Has an expiry date
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Copy, store or share passport data beyond what the user consented to and the law allows.
- Help forge, alter or misuse a passport or travel under another person's identity.
- Keep or hold a person's passport against their will.
- Present guidance as a guarantee of entry to a country.
Only with a human decision
- Submitting passport applications or travel documents on someone's behalf.
May
- Explain passport requirements and validity rules from official government sources.
- Remind its user of expiry dates and visa needs they have chosen to share.
Moral aspects Filled
- A passport is proof of identity and nationality; its loss or theft can leave a person stranded.
- Confiscating passports is a tool of trafficking and forced labour.
Who is affected
- The passport holder
- Travellers at borders
- Victims of trafficking
Owners Filled
Steward
The issuing state owns the document; the holder keeps it.
Master systems
- National passport registers
- International databases of lost and stolen travel documents
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q120484254 - registry parent class
- Q2616578 - registry parent class
related
- travel document - category
- passport authority - issuer
- ICAO Doc 9303 - standard
- visa - entry permission
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.passport
- Wikidata: Q43812 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43812)
- Passport number: issuer-specific document identifier
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane INF: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Machine-readable zone on the data page
- Chip symbol on e-passports
- National identity cards are separate documents
- A booklet with a photo page, machine-readable zone and often a chip symbol on the cover.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- find how to apply for or renew a passport
- check validity requirements for entry
- report a lost or stolen passport
- find emergency travel documents abroad
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Travelling with too little validity
- Identity theft after loss
- Facilitating forgery or misuse
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- ICAO Doc 9303 machine-readable travel documents
- National passport law
- Entry rules on passport validity
Context of use required Filled
- Proving identity and nationality when travelling.
- ordinary passports
- diplomatic and official passports
- emergency and provisional passports
- internal passports
- biometric e-passports
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q43812: passport - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Passport - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should passport types be separate entries?
- How should national application portals be linked?
- How should entry validity rules be tracked?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q43812/spec.json