UNMIK Travel Document
An UNMIK Travel Document was a passport-sized document used to foreign travel for residents of Kosovo[a], who were not able to obtain a passport from Yugoslavia.[1] The document was issued by the UNMIK from 2000[2] to 2008.[3] After the government of Kosovo started to issue their own passports, the UNMIK ceased issuing them. Existing documents retained their validity until expiry (the last ones expired in 2010).
The travel document was not a passport as it did not contain information on Nationality and as it was not issued by a sovereign state. The document carried UNMIK travel document/titre de voyage on the cover, contained 32 pages and was valid for 2 years. The document contained a machine readable strip. As the issuing authority was the UNMIK, the document had the official[4] three-letter code "UNK" where normally the country code is placed. The document was the only other travel document issued by the United Nations besides the United Nations Laissez-Passer, which is mainly issued to employees of the UN and its specialized agencies.
Limited acceptance
As the status of Kosovo was and remains controversial, the document was not widely accepted.[5] For those countries that did accept it, its non-passport status sometimes restricted its applications. For example, although the US did accept the UNMIK Travel Document, it did not place visa stickers in the document itself, but on a detached sheet.[6]
See also
- Kosovo Interior Ministry
Notes and references
Notes:
| a. | ^ Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008, but Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the Brussels Agreement. Kosovo has received recognition as an independent state from 110 out of 193 United Nations member states. |
References:
- ↑ http://www.un.org/peace/kosovo/news/99/mar00_4.htm
- ↑ http://www.un.org/peace/kosovo/news/99/mar00_4.htm
- ↑ http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2008/07/31/feature-02
- ↑ http://www.icao.int/atb/sfbranch/files/MRTDStateCode.pdf
- ↑ http://www.unmikonline.org/misc/traveldocs.htm
- ↑ http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/reciprocity/reciprocity_4208.html
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1 A) Includes Crown Dependencies, British Overseas Territories, and former British plantations, crown colonies, colonies, protectorates, protected states, mandates, trust territories and other British possessions. 2 Open border with Schengen Area. 3 Russia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The vast majority of its population (80%) lives in European Russia, therefore Russia as a whole is included as a European country here. 4 Turkey is a transcontinental country in the Middle East and Southeast Europe. Turkey has a small part of its territory (3%) in Southeast Europe called Turkish Thrace. 5 Azerbaijan and Georgia (Abkhazia; South Ossetia) are transcontinental countries. Both have a small part of their territories in the European part of the Caucasus. 6 Kazakhstan is a transcontinental country. Kazakhstan has a small part of its territories located west of the Urals in Eastern Europe. 7 Armenia (Nagorno-Karabakh) and Cyprus (Northern Cyprus) are entirely in Southwest Asia but having socio-political connections with Europe. 8 Egypt is a transcontinental country in North Africa and Western Asia. Egypt has a small part of its territory in Western Asia called Sinai peninsula. 9 Partially recognized. 10 Not recognized by any other state. 11 Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China 12 The Soviet Union was a transcontinental country located in Eurasia
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