— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:30A:C0AE:BBF0:98B4:DAE4:6903:12E6 (talk) 05:26, 24 November 2016 (UTC), Please be aware, the world passport is NOT a government issued passport and NOT accepted by Notary Public. And I will rephrase the text in order to make it crystal clear. In my case, the two websites are about the same issue: a world passport. Thanks for bringing this to the talk page. All rights reserved. Passports from the WSA get a special mention in the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Manual: “World Service Authority Passports are not acceptable as ‘passports’ for visa issuing purposes … the document is a 40-page, passport-size document with a bright blue cover with gold lettering.”. 9. A grand total of eight or nine come from the WSA website. The passport states that it is issued pursuant to Article 13:2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [1]: "Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country. It is unclear whether any country currently accepts WSA passports. Île flottante (talk) 19:07, 19 October 2017 (UTC). Tourdottk (talk) 17:30, 19 March 2010 (UTC), I think that the difference here is that Garry Davis' WPA has been around for over half a century, has been described in multiple, independent, non-trivial printed works, has received major media coverage over the years, and so passes WP:V, WP:N, and WP:RS. May I suggest the following to replace the first sentence in the article? 7. ), non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., purportedly (THIS WORD CARRIES AN UNDERLYING EMPHASIS THAT IS POLITICALLY MOTIVATED) under the authority of Article 13, Section 2, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To dispel the notion that these were merely accidents by border guards, consider the fact that a great many of the passports were submitted through the governmental processes of various nations and issued visas by government officials, not merely by border guards. 3. He would later use the passport to enter Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Switzerland. Canada[1], New Zealand[2], Switzerland[3] and the United States[4] (ONLY PARTS OF THESE GOVERNMENTS HAVE GUIDELINES ON THIS--THESE GUIDELINES DO NOT REFLECT THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT'S VIEWPOINT WHICH IS WHAT SEEMS TO BE STATED HERE. DL1982 (talk) 11:37, 16 February 2018 (UTC), The article pretends that the only instances of acceptance in these nations are several decades old. The European Council has classified it under its category "fantasy documents"[6], Issuance of passports by non-state agencies dates back to 1922, when Fridtjof Nansen launched the Nansen Passport which was issued to stateless refugees. I don't know what you think is "promotional" about the article. I'm sure any money received goes towards the cost of producing the World Passport and other administrative expenses. See the questions in CAPITAL letters within the text. More than 750,000 World Passports have been issued and close to 5 million documents have been issued. A World Passport is a conceptual idea and doesn't belong to any one organisation. ), Sonya Spry Shipping and handling fees are extra (of course!). (btw: connected directly to the World Service Authority) World Identity Card: $20 World Birth Certificate: $20 World Marriage Certificate (only for registered World Citizens): $30. Learn somewhere new. World Marriage Certificate (only for registered World Citizens): $30. As in, they consider it valid. However, Burkina Faso withdrew its de jure recognition of World Passports in 1992(WHERE IS THE SOURCE FOR THIS STATEMENT? You can eliminate it if you want but that just leaves the paragraph without an opening sentence and it'll sound weird. Paladin999 (talk) 08:35, 25 July 2017 (UTC), I think its appropriate to identify what product or service the WSA is "selling" in the context of a nonprofit organization. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:30A:C0AE:BBF0:98B4:DAE4:6903:12E6 (talk) 05:09, 24 November 2016 (UTC), Editors: This article contains an internal contradiction re. Over the last year and a half, I don't know how many times I have had to argue my point here. FYI: Another artist who discusses this is Tom Muller: http://www.galeriedusseldorf.com.au/GDArtists/Mueller/TMHomoGlobus02.html. World Passport page 2 ), It’s still a crapshoot when you travel with nothing but a world passport. This article contains biased, opinionated, inaccurate and intentionally misleading information. Everyone has the right to choose your own political allegiance. The other seven citations to the WSA website in the table which I have just modified to make it clear that there's no third-party verification of the alleged acceptance. 159 other countries can and do make their own determinations about the validity and legality of the passport. The World Passport is a fantasy travel document sold by the World Service Authority, a non-profit organization founded by Garry Davis in 1954. Well, firstly I would more than appreciate to talk with a logged user and not to an IP address (and I guess you should have one because you contribute significantly on en:wiki). Fourthly, certain scholars argue that a state must also be a subject of international law and recognised as such by other subjects of international law. My reasoning is: THIS IS NOT ACCURATE AS OTHER DEPARTMENTS OF THESE SAME GOVERNMENTS HAVE RECOGNIZED THE DOCUMENTS) have all stated that they do not recognize such documents because they are issued by a private organization, not a competent government authority, and thus do not meet the definition of a passport. The world passport does look a lot like a regular, national passport, except it’s printed in seven languages (including Esperanto). Having an article about a topic based on secondary sources is not the same as "promoting" a topic: Nazi Germany, Ku Klux Klan, Murder, etc. I had tried to include the term ‘fantasy travel document,’ but was on two occasions reverted by an anonymous IP user. Do you want to accept personal responsibility for damaging the forward movement of human rights in the world? I do not work or volunteer for the organization that issues this document. There's quite a few countries that do not and will not accpet my Israeli passport. 1) Art. As it says in the UDHR, “every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance." Got a question about today’s news? World Citizen Card: registration fee is $30 plus $30 annual assessment. The attempts to block and revoke documented facts about the World Passport and to substitute writer's opinions is inappropriate for Wikipedia. He was arrested. Until there is official international government acceptance of these items by the rest of the world, they will remain fantasy passports.--Dmol (talk) 23:27, 12 October 2017 (UTC), DETAILED RESPONSE: 4. I made the following changes: When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs. It may be considered a government in microcosm for now, but all governments start with a small number of like-minded individuals who unite to work together for the greater good and the good of all. Perhaps the article should say that today everyone can apply for a World Passport without giving any document proving his/her identity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.74.223.213 (talk) 12:01, 8 October 2014 (UTC), Why was this edit removed as 'promotional material'?
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