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 Front cover of the current Guatemalan passport | |
| Type | Passport |
| Issued by | Instituto Guatemalteco de Migración |
| Purpose | Identification & Travel |
| Eligibility |  Guatemalan citizenship |
| Expiration | 10 years after issuance for individuals aged 18 and above; 5 years for citizens 17 and under.[1] |
| Cost | USD$85 for 10 years / USD$50 for 5 years[2] |
Guatemalan passports (Spanish:Pasaporte guatemalteco) are issued to Guatemalan citizens to travel outsideGuatemala. As of 1 February 2024, Guatemalan citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 137 countries and territories, ranking the Guatemalan passport 38th in terms of travel freedom according to theHenley visa restrictions index.[3]
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Previously, like all Central American passports, the cover had navy with gold fonts stating the official name of the country in Spanish and in English, theEmblem of Guatemala in the middle and the words Pasaporte and Passport at the bottom.
Since 2006, there is now a newer version of the cover, which has kept many of the old features. The main difference is that now at the top it has the words Centro America and in the middle, instead of the coat of arms, a map of Central America is displayed with the Guatemalan territory shaded. At the bottom the wording changed to depict the type of passport.
The first page remains the same with the wording in Spanish, English, and the emblem. Passports have a validity of five years or ten years.
The Guatemalan passport contains many security features in it like colored fibers embedded in the pages, a watermark on all pages, and others. Like in thequetzal bills, the passport has an outline of an image on one side and on the other side the image is colored; and when a page is held up against light, the observer is able to see the color on the white outline.
Guatemalan passports are machine readable and contain aPDF4172D barcode with the holder's biometric information. Because of this detail, no attempts have been made to also include theRFID chip yet.
The passport issuing authority is the Dirección General de Migración (General Immigration Directorship), a dependency of the Ministerio de Gobernación (Ministry of the Interior).
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