Question:
Does your U.S. passport have a green cover?
If it does, consider yourself lucky. The green-covered
variety was only issued for 1 year (1993), to celebrate
the 200th anniversary of the Foreign Service. It should also
have a hologram depicting Ben Franklin. Please let me
know if you have one -- I've only seen one other besides
my own.
Answer:
Blue and I think my French passport is purple, I am poor with
colors. I replace my American next year, which is a pain
since they get very excited when I tell them I have another.
Explanations.
We lived in Germany for two
years not too long before I got this passport and their passports are
green. I think it was silly and confusing to change the color. Especially
to the color of the passport of a European country.
But I'm glad you pointed out the hologram. I never noticed old Ben in
there. Do newer passports have a hologram? My husband's doesn't but it's
older (and blue, of course).
So I will treasure it now that I know it's story. But why green?
I haven't seen the green passport issued in 1993, but I've seen and
carried US passports with green covers. My first passport was green, I
don't remember the color of my first remewal passport, but I think it may
have been blue. So the question in my mind is why blue? There are were
countries with blue passports at the time. Why did we change to blue?
Does anyone know of a country with a uniquely colored passport?
I'd always wondered if somehow
they'd given me a counterfeit :)
I haven't seen the Ben Franklin hologram,
though. If I find the damned thing (it got
'misplaced' moving),
My passport has a plain old blue cover, but I think it's special cuz it
was issued by the US embassy in Nassau, Bahamas to replace one I lost
while living there.
German passports (as well as the passports of the
remainder of the European Union countries) are now Burgundy
in colour. However, the colour is not exactly standardized
and varies from EU country to EU country.
I have one, and it was issued in early 1994. The
Ben Franklin hologram also shows the letters "USA" when
viewed at the appropriate angle.
The State Dept. issued passports with green covers for about a
year (like around 1993, when I got mine renewed), then switched back to
blue covers. Don't remember the reasons.
I was lurking on the edges of this thread without really paying much
attention until, now, I notice that yes, my passport _does_ have a green
cover. But didn't someone say something about a hologram? I have no
hologram. Have I been cheated?
It's inside, partially covering an edge of the photograph. (So you can't
take the photo out without damaging the hologram, I suspect.)
