Omani passport

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Omani passport
Issued by	Oman
Type of document	Passport
Purpose	Identification
Eligibility requirements	Omani citizenship

The Omani passport is issued to citizens of Oman for international travel. Omani passports are issued by the Royal Omani Police or at an Omani Embassy overseas.

1 Passport types
2 Bilateral visa exemption treaties
3 See also
4 References

Passport types

Passport types are specified under article No. 3 of the Omani passport law, issued by Royal Decree No. 69/97. The specified types are as follows:

Ordinary passport (red cover)
Diplomatic passport (black cover)
Special passport (burgundy cover)
Service passport (blue cover)
The laissez-passer

Bilateral visa exemption treaties

In addition to the unilateral visa waivers that holders of Omani passports enjoy; Oman has signed several bilateral visa exemption treaties for the benefit of diplomatic, service, and special passports:

An agreement with France for the holders of diplomatic, service and special passports.
An agreement with China for the holders of diplomatic, service and special passports.
An agreement with Switzerland for the holders of diplomatic, service and special passports.
An agreement with the UK and Northern Ireland for the holders of diplomatic and special passports.
An agreement with Lithuania for the holders of diplomatic, service and special passports.
An agreement with Belarus for the holders of diplomatic, service and special passports.
An agreement with Italy for the holders of diplomatic, service and special passports.
An agreement with Portugal for the holders of diplomatic, service and special passports.
An agreement with Malta for the holders of diplomatic, service and special passports.
An agreement with Korea for the holders of diplomatic, service and special passports.

References

Passports

Africa

Central

CEMAC	Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Congo, Republic of the Equatorial Guinea Gabon
Angola Congo, Democratic Republic of the São Tomé and Príncipe

Eastern

Northern

Southern

Western

Mauritania Saint Helena¹
ECOWAS	Benin Burkina Faso Cape Verde Côte d'Ivoire Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Niger Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Togo

Americas

Caribbean

Anguilla¹ British Virgin Islands¹ Cayman Islands¹ Cuba Dominican Republic Montserrat¹ Turks and Caicos Islands¹
CARICOM	Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Dominica Grenada Haiti Jamaica Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago

Central

Costa Rica Panama
CARICOM	Belize
Central America-4	El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua

North

South

Chile
Andean	Bolivia Colombia Ecuador Peru
CARICOM	Guyana Suriname
Mercosur	Argentina Brazil Paraguay Uruguay Venezuela

Asia

Central & North	Afghanistan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Russia Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
East	People's Republic of China Hong Kong⁵ Macao⁵ Japan Korea, North Korea, South Mongolia Republic of China (Taiwan)³
South	Bangladesh Bhutan India Maldives Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka
Southeast	Brunei Burma Cambodia East Timor Indonesia Laos Malaysia Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam
West	Abkhazia³ Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Cyprus Egypt Georgia Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Nagorno-Karabakh ³ Northern Cyprus ³ Oman Palestinian Authority Qatar Saudi Arabia South Ossetia³ Syria Turkey United Arab Emirates Yemen

Europe

Other Europe

European Union

Oceania
Australia Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia, Federated States of Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Pitcairn Islands¹ Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu

International organizations
Defunct passports
Passport types

International organizations	European Union laissez-passer International Committee of the Red Cross Interpol United Nations laissez-passer
Defunct	British Indian Empire¹ Czechoslovakia East Germany Korean Empire League of Nations refugee (Nansen) Mandatory Palestine Rhodesia Soviet Union UNMIK Travel Document Yugoslavia
Types	Biometric Camouflage Diplomatic Fake Hajj Horse Internal International Machine-readable Pet Travel document alien refugee stateless person World

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.
B) The Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey are not part of the European Union, but Manxmen and Channel Islanders are citizens of the European Union; the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey, and Manxmen and Channel Islanders themselves (unless they qualify and apply for recognition of a change in status), are however excluded from the benefits of the Four Freedoms of the European Union.
C) The Government of the United Kingdom also issue passports to British nationals who are not British citizens with the right of abode in the United Kingdom and who are also not otherwise citizens of the European Union.

² Open border with Schengen Area.

³ Partially recognized.

⁴ Not recognized by any other state.

⁵ Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China