Costa Rican passports are issued to Costa Rican citizens to travel outside Costa Rica. Currently, it is valid for 6 years (10 years before 2006). It is issued to people born on Costa Rican soil (who are citizens by default), and to children of Costa Rican citizens born abroad, who are reported to the nearest Costa Rican embassy (whose birth, immediately after such report, is recorded in the civil registry). Children born overseas to a Costa Rican citizen are Costa Rican by birth, not by naturalisation, as stated in the Constitution of Costa Rica.
As of May 2018, Costa Rican citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 149 countries and territories, ranking the Costa Rican passport 25th overall and first among Central American countries, in terms of travel freedom according to the Henley Passport Index.[2]
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