This service passport was issued to a delegation member, Culture and Sport of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1997 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The passport is only valid for two years.

He did not sign on the allocated space on page 2, but instead made a signature on the datapage. It was probably intentional.

On page 7, it has an Official Visa issued by Ministarstvo Vanjskih Poslova on 1 September 1997 which valid until 1 March 1998 which permits her multiple travel.

SERVICE PASSPORT

Service Passport is the official travel document issued to facilitate the travel of people who are employed by or acting on behalf of the government who travel internationally on official state business and related public affairs and are restricted to people in specific categories and roles. In a different country, it may be called Official Passport. This is based on guidelines agreed upon in the Vienna Convention.

Official Passports do not entitle their bearers to any special privileges or the diplomatic immunity provided by the host nation. These passports are issued specifically to people who need to travel, rather than to people who are being assigned or posted to a host nation. Diplomatic and Official passports, in themselves, do not confer on the holder any special privileges or rights. Individual countries may confer, at their discretion, certain rights to holders of Diplomatic and Official passports. Only accredited diplomats are eligible for diplomatic immunity. 

Service Passports are issued government officials and non-officials when their passages are paid by the government as well as the accompanying dependants, when such members of their families also proceed out the expense of the government.

SERIES II + SERIES III

However, this SERVICE PASSPORT is using front cover similar to SERIES II and the coat-of-arm on the front cover is similar to SERIES III.

Despite the name was pre-printed on the front cover, page 1, page 3 (datapage), page 4 and interior side of the back are referring to Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, it was however noted by way of printing on page 5 denoting the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The passport contains 32 pages.
 
Passport number prefixed with S and followed by 6 digits. The numbers are needle-perforated at the bottom of each page from page 5 to page 31.

Whilst country code as well as nationality were written as R BH. for passport issued for this series, it was however printed as BIH.

DIPLOMATIC REQUEST PAGE

Notes were written in Bosnian, English and French.
 
NOTES

Notes were written in Bosnian, English and French.
 

Series III


The Federation was created by the 1994 Washington Agreement which was signed on 18 March 1994. However, it was only recognized on 14 December 1995. It composed of Bosnia and Herzegovina the Republika Srpska.

Due to this, the name was changed from Republic to Federation.
 
It retains the same coat-of-arms which was similar to Passport Series I.
 
The passport contains 32 pages.

Passport number prefixed with BA and followed by 6 digits. The numbers are needle-perforated from page 5 to page 31.



Country code, as well as Nationality, were written as R BH.
 
Passport number prefixed with BA and followed by 6 digits. The numbers are needle-perforated from page 5 to page 31. Variety II has a new passport prefix: BH.

Country code, as well as Nationality, were written as R BH. Variety II has a new code BIH.

WATERMARK



CITIZENSHIP

The citizenship of Bosnia and Herzegovina was defined in the art. 1, para. 7 of the Constitution, providing that ‘there shall be a citizenship of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to be regulated by the Parliamentary Assembly, and a citizenship of each Entity, to be regulated by each Entity. The same paragraph gives a provision that echoes the former relationship between the federal and republican citizenships in the SFRY, stipulating that ‘all citizens of either Entity are thereby citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina’. 

NOTES

Notes were written in Bosnian, English and French.