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| May 16, 2018 at 6:17 | comment | added | xuq01 | Just another anecdote, the President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) has a diplomatic passport, but countries having ties with the PRC usually don't accept that (de jure, they do not acknowledge the ROC government's power to conduct official diplomacy). Instead the President has a sui generis identify document that basically says "I am myself and let me in". | |
| May 15, 2018 at 15:41 | comment | added | phoog | @AlexanderKosubek the historical purpose of a passport is not to certify identity, but to request permission to enter a country and protection of that country's laws. The queen could surely have a passport that says "We request..." instead of "Her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State Requests and requires in the Name of Her Majesty..." Or she can just show up and say it verbally. The US Secretary of State issues US passports, and issues him- or herself a passport that refers to him- or herself in the third person: "The Secretary of State of the United States of America hereby requests..." | |
| May 15, 2018 at 15:20 | comment | added | I'm with Monica | @phoog Why should an entity certify its own identity? A self-issued passport is worthless, as the whole purpoese of a passport is for someone else to certify the identity of a person. So, if UK passports are actually issued in the name of the Monarch, then, of course, it would be useless for said Monarch to verify his or her own identity. - Only if some other entity is the issuer of the passport, this would make sense. - I don't think that many heads of states issue their own passports. The state does, but - at least in all countries I travel to - the state is not some person. | |
| May 15, 2018 at 14:00 | comment | added | phoog | @gsnedders whether it makes sense or not isn't particularly relevant. I'm sure there's some monarch somewhere who has a passport. Republican heads of state and foreign ministers issue themselves passports. The queen just chooses not to. | |
| May 15, 2018 at 13:26 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | @Tim yeah but she is also the queen of like 17 different countries. | |
| May 15, 2018 at 11:54 | comment | added | gsnedders | @Tim And for the curious, this is because UK passports are issued in the name of the Monarch. It would make no sense for the Monarch to issue themself a document stating they are the Monarch. | |
| May 15, 2018 at 11:37 | comment | added | Tim | Notably, the Queen of the United Kingdom does not have a passport. I assume she would pre-arrange any travel. Her aides (and family members) all have passports, however. | |
| May 15, 2018 at 11:04 | history | edited | Crazydre | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 15, 2018 at 10:59 | comment | added | phoog | @Coke hm, an earlier version of that sentence acknowledged that possibility. I wonder what happened to it before I posted the answer. | |
| May 15, 2018 at 4:44 | comment | added | Crazydre | "Similarly, a "regular" Mexican national has to show a Mexican passport" Or one of several other docs :) | |
| May 14, 2018 at 18:45 | history | answered | phoog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |