# What color is your passport? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 24, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553 "2019-07-24T16:57:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mandala](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mandala/32/95_2.png) [@mandala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mandala)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/21 "2019-07-25T01:51:53Z")
Does the inside count? I have a boring jet-black one, but the inside is filled with much color (including a searing crimson line that reads CANCELLED) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/22 "2019-07-25T04:08:23Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > You need a passport to go to Atlanta now? Considering my family ----- quite possibly. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/23 "2019-07-25T06:16:22Z")
Does “maroon” count as “red” or as “other”? I’ve never seen a passport I’d call “red”, but maroon is quite common. > [@UDS](#): > > Red - well, claret - also for EU countries. You and I have very different concepts of claret. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/24 "2019-07-25T06:20:05Z")
Dark blue for both my Australian and US passports, and pretty much the same shade. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/25 "2019-07-25T06:25:53Z")
[Claret](https://www.google.com/search?q=clarete&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjK3Nbgt8_jAhVOD2MBHe3fC20Q_AUIESgB&biw=1920&bih=966). [Spanish passport](http://www.exteriores.gob.es/Portal/es/ServiciosAlCiudadano/SiEstasEnElExtranjero/Paginas/PasaporteOtraDocumentacion.aspx). ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/26 "2019-07-25T06:55:31Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > [Claret](https://www.google.com/search?q=clarete&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjK3Nbgt8_jAhVOD2MBHe3fC20Q_AUIESgB&biw=1920&bih=966). No, that’s clarete. [This is claret](https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&client=firefox-b-d&biw=1875&bih=903&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=KVI5Xb7AFYWp8gLBx4XoCg&q=claret&oq=claret&gs_l=img.3..0l10.13323.13323..13849...0.0..0.431.431.4-1......0....1..gws-wiz-img.d3y_C4i1M-M&ved=0ahUKEwj--L2vvs_jAhWFlFwKHcFjAa0Q4dUDCAY&uact=5) Clarete/clairet is a pink wine ~ rosé/_rosado_. Claret is an English term for Bordeaux red wine, usually a dark dry red, basically synonymous with burgundy as a colour. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/27 "2019-07-25T08:18:58Z")
Passport colour is a hot political topic in this Brexit nightmare world we live in currently in the UK. Our passports are currently ‘EU’ red (burgundy) - just had mine renewed, and was cross to see they’ve already removed ‘European Union’ from the cover, even though we haven’t left yet. But one of the first announcements our Brexit overlords announced was that our passports would be returning to the traditional blue - well, that was worth it then. I renewed early to make sure I got a red one. Small political stand on my part. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/28 "2019-07-25T08:20:31Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > [Claret](https://www.google.com/search?q=clarete&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjK3Nbgt8_jAhVOD2MBHe3fC20Q_AUIESgB&biw=1920&bih=966). > > [Spanish passport](http://www.exteriores.gob.es/Portal/es/ServiciosAlCiudadano/SiEstasEnElExtranjero/Paginas/PasaporteOtraDocumentacion.aspx). That’s not claret. That’s rosé. Claret is the colour of bordeaux wine. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/29 "2019-07-25T08:55:31Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/30 "2019-07-25T08:57:37Z")
Navy blue. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/31 "2019-07-25T12:49:02Z")
> [@naita](#): > > “Communist countries use red” is not the same as “red is for communist countries”. Your source has this right, it’s your summary that’s wrong. I’ve not been myself, but I’ve been told from some of my diplomat friends that Russian customs will specifically and only stamp the page in US passports with the bear on it. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/32 "2019-07-25T13:21:56Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I’ve not been myself, but I’ve been told from some of my diplomat friends that Russian customs will specifically and only stamp the page in US passports with the bear on it. That would seem sensible as a way to quickly find the stamp when you leave ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/33 "2019-07-25T13:56:35Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > :rolleyes: Do you mean :rolleyes: as in “I was only joking, duh”, or as in “I cannot read and you cannot make me”? Do you realize how difficult it is to tell the difference in electronic communication? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/34 "2019-07-25T14:10:51Z")
I think my first one, from way back in the early 70s, was green. When I was in the Navy, I had a blue one and an official red one. Now I just have a blue one. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/35 "2019-07-25T14:48:17Z")
> [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](#): > > Or Singapore or Bahrain and a host of others. [This](https://www.passportindex.org/byColor.php)links to a rather nifty passport colour sire and[this](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/surprising-reasons-behind-the-colour-of-your-passport/) is a nice article on the same. > > From the article > [@](#): > > Most Islamic states use green passports because of the importance of the colour in their religion,” Boghossian said. > > … seen on the national flags of Islamic countries like **Afghanistan and Iran.** :rolleyes: [The Iranian passport is a dark deep red](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_passport). T[he Afghani passport is a sky blue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_passport). Pakistani passport is currently green, but has also been beige and blue in the past and some types of passport (like official ones) are still blue. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/36 "2019-07-25T14:54:41Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > There are only 4 different colors of passports > > Blue is considered the color for the “New World” > Red for current or historical communist countries > Green for primarily muslim countries > Black is the rarist > > [There are Only Four Passport Colors in the World, and This is the Reason Why / Bright Side](https://brightside.me/wonder-curiosities/there-are-only-four-passport-colors-in-the-world-and-this-is-the-reason-why-315960/) I mean, Iraqi, Syrian, Yemeni, UAE passports are blue. Qatarl, Bahraini, Iranian, Omani passport are red. Mexican passports are green. ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/37 "2019-07-26T09:59:19Z")
I voted “other”. I am in the UK and my passport’s burgundy. However, if the idiots get their way and we have to leave the blessed EU, it will be renewed with a blue one. Ironically, said blue passport generated due to leaving the EU will be made by an EU country and not by the UK. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/38 "2019-07-26T13:48:00Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Canada - blue. It’s a REALLY dark blue though. From a distance they look black. [https://www.google.com/search?q=canada+passport+color&rlz=1C1GGRV\_enUS794US794&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwis0JLD3NLjAhXPhOAKHQkECHAQ\_AUIESgB&biw=1366&bih=576#imgrc=-qjf89jXQz6\_sM:](https://www.google.com/search?q=canada+passport+color&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS794US794&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwis0JLD3NLjAhXPhOAKHQkECHAQ_AUIESgB&biw=1366&bih=576#imgrc=-qjf89jXQz6_sM:) ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/39 "2019-07-26T15:30:10Z")
Both my passports are blue, which can be confusing at times. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553/40 "2019-07-26T21:15:24Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Same here. The red was a “official” passport, meaning I was on government business, but in the private sector. The black was, of course, a diplomatic passport. Wow, I had no idea that this was the case. Ignorance fought. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-passport/837553.md?page=3)