{"id":122500,"date":"2017-11-01T07:49:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T07:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.migrateworld.com\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2024-12-19T14:37:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T14:37:04","slug":"size-and-shape-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.migrateworld.com\/en\/blog\/post\/size-and-shape-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Size and Shape Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder why every passport in the world is the same size and shape? Turns out it can all<br \/>\nbe traced back to one fateful meeting.<br \/>\nAfter the end of the First World War, the lack of a standardized passport caused a lot of<br \/>\nheadaches for border crossings by train. Officials often struggled with foreign languages,<br \/>\ninconsistent sizes of documents, and varying levels of information. So on October 21,1920 the<br \/>\nLeague of Nations convened in France to determine a standardized size and shape for<br \/>\npassports that has remained largely unchanged ever since.<br \/>\nThe meeting\u2014formally called the Paris Conference on Passports &amp; Customs Formalities and<br \/>\nThrough Tickets\u2014settled on a standard size, shape, and documentation requirements for 42<br \/>\nnations and the passport as we know it was born.<br \/>\nMost standard passports are 15.5cm x 10.5cm and contain personal information on the first few<br \/>\npages followed by blank pages for stamps and travel documentation. While this basic design<br \/>\nhas remained largely unchanged, passports themselves have undergone numerous<br \/>\ntechnological advances in an effort to increase document security. Today\u2019s passports have<br \/>\nwatermarks, holograms, fluorescent threads, embossed letters, disappearing inks, and some<br \/>\neven contain biometric data.<br \/>\nAnd those who travel frequently will note that even the historic\u2014and romantic\u2014tradition of<br \/>\ncollecting stamps from a variety of countries is starting to disappear. In fact, the paper passport<br \/>\nas a whole may even be obsolete sooner than rather than later.<br \/>\nAustralia is testing a face-scanning system called \u201cSeamless Traveller\u201d that will eliminate the<br \/>\nneed for travellers to carry paper passports at all. But until then, the passport will remain a<br \/>\nmodern reminder of a different time.<br \/>\nIf you\u2019d like to add to your passport collection, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.migrateworld.com\/en\/contact\/\">contact us<\/a> today for a free consultation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder why every passport in the world is the same size and shape? Turns out it can all be traced back to one fateful meeting. After the end of the First World War, the lack of a standardized passport caused a lot of headaches for border crossings by train. Officials often struggled with foreign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[331],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.migrateworld.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.migrateworld.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.migrateworld.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.migrateworld.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.migrateworld.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.migrateworld.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.migrateworld.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.migrateworld.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.migrateworld.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.migrateworld.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}