Somaliland Passport Baasaboorka Somaliland (Somali) جواز سفر (Arabic)
Type	Passport
Issued by	Somaliland Immigration[1]
First issued	1996 (first version) 14 September 2014 (biometric version)
Purpose	Identification
Eligibility	Somaliland citizenship
Expiration	5 years
Cost	$103 for Somaliland National ID holders.

TheSomaliland passport (Somali:Baasaboorka Somaliland,Arabic:جواز سفر صوماليلاندي) is thepassport issued to citizens of the unrecognized country ofSomaliland, northern region of Somalia for travel.^[2][3][4] A passport was issued for the first time in 1996, and a biometric passport in 2014, in line with new global standards and the requirements of the International Civil Aviation Organization.

The color of the Somaliland passport is black, and it bears the symbol of the state's sovereignty. It also bears the following inscriptions in the Somali, Arabic and English languages:

Above: "Republic of Somaliland" (Somali:Jamhuuriyadda Somaliland) (Arabic:الجمهورية صومالي لاند)

In the center:Emblem of Somaliland

Below: «Passport» (Somali:Baasaboor) (Arabic:جواز سفر)

Notably, the three-letter code used in Somaliland passports to represent the country and nationality isRSL, which is absent from theISO 3166-1 alpha-3 list of country codes, undermining its utility as a travel document.

Citizens with a Somaliland travel document can go to the following countries:

Djibouti

Nepal[5]

Rwanda[6]

Saudi Arabia

South Africa

Egypt

UK

Somalia

UAE

USA

Canada

Uganda

Kenya

South Sudan

Taiwan[7]

Tanzania

There are a number of types of Somaliland passports:

Regular Passport

Service Passport

Diplomatic Passport

• Regular Passport (black cover): issued toSomaliland citizens.
• Service Passport (green cover): issued to members ofParliament, members of theGovernment.
• Diplomatic Passport (red cover): issued to diplomats serving abroad and to high-ranking officials from the executive branch and their families during their period of service.

• 
  British Somaliland Passport issued during the British era in the 1930s.
• 
  A Republic of Somaliland passport issued in 1996.
• 
  Data page of a first generation biometric passport

• Visa policy of Somaliland
• National identity card

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