Bhutanese passport

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Bhutanese passport
File:The front cover of Bhutanese passport.jpg The front cover of a Bhutanese passport
Type	Passport
Issued by	Bhutan
Purpose	Identification
Eligibility	Bhutanese Citizen

A Bhutanese passport is a document which authorises and facilitates travel and other activities in Bhutan or by Bhutanese citizens.

In the Kingdom of Bumthang, which constitutes a part of modern day Bhutan, feudal passbooks or 'dzeng'(Dzongkha: ཛེང) were issued to court messengers in order to travel from kingdom to kingdom. Diplomacy and mediating were crucially important measures in pre-modern Bhutan chiefdoms.

Foreign travel passports are issued to citizens of Bhutan for international travel. New Bhutanese passports are issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Languages

The passport contains text in English and Dzongkha (Tibetan script).

Types of passport

• Ordinary passport (red), Shinthron passport (Dzongkha: ་དགེ་འདུན་)
• Official passport (green), Pawchang passport (Dzongkha: ་དབྱངས།་)
• Diplomatic passport (blue), Denzhen passport (Dzongkha: ཞག་དང་རྣ)

A Lhotshampa man holding his Bhutanese passport in a refugee camp for Bhutanese.

See also

• Passport
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Bhutan)
• Kingdom of Bhutan
• Foreign relations of Bhutan
• Politics of Bhutan
• List of passports