<noun.communication> the pass to visit had a strict time limit
a document issued by a country to a citizen allowing that person to travel abroad and re-enter the home country
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any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission
<noun.attribute> her pleasant personality is already a recommendation his wealth was not a passport into the exclusive circles of society
Passport \Pass"port\, n. [F. passeport, orig., a permission to leave a port or to sail into it; passer to pass + port a port, harbor. See {Pass}, and {Port} a harbor.] 1. Permission to pass; a document given by the competent officer of a state, permitting the person therein named to pass or travel from place to place, without molestation, by land or by water.
Caution in granting passports to Ireland. --Clarendon.
2. A document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to certify their nationality and protect them from belligerents; a sea letter.
3. A license granted in time of war for the removal of persons and effects from a hostile country; a safe-conduct. --Burrill.
4. Figuratively: Anything which secures advancement and general acceptance. --Sir P. Sidney.
His passport is his innocence and grace. --Dryden.
A blueprint for the necessary measures is provided by the agreement of nine member states to abolish passport controls at their common frontiers.
After VW disclosed the fraud on March 10 by filing a criminal complaint before state prosecutors, Mr. Junger said police confiscated his passport to prevent him from leaving the country.
Mr Craxi, probably the most prominent of those accused, again failed to hand in his passport to magistrates yesterday, in spite of increasing pressure to do so.
Before she died in January, Dorothea Allen destroyed family papers and letters and tore the date and place of birth from her passport.
"I was very, very surprised," he told reporters. "The prize means a great lot, not in the sense it's a passport to immortality. But it gives you the possibility of a wider audience.
"I doubt they'll let you in," he said, and stamped my passport.
Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd has said he wants key people to remain in Hong Kong after the handover and the best way to do that is to give them the security of knowing they have a British passport if they dislike the realities of Communist rule.
It is probably best to carry a driving licence or a photocopy of your passport.
Imee, who has three children of her own, lives in Morocco and is not permitted to travel on a Philippine passport, they said.
Thus, he said, he traveled on a forged passport.
"I will not make use of that passport, and I will not leave the country," Havel said.
But they must have a passport, and fighting the bureaucracy to get one can take months.
The victim was first identified as Abdul Mohammed Kashim, 39, from a South Yemeni diplomatic passport he was carrying.
The government granted her a limited passport in June, allowing her to leave the country for the first time.
They include giving everyone over 16 the right to a passport and foreign travel.
The government of South Africa gave her a 31-day passport to make the visit, the first time she has been allowed out of the country.
Travel has been nearly impossible for most Albanians for 45 years, but the government recently said all Albanians over 16 were entitled to a passport.
He said he passed through French passport control with the help of an El Al official, who issued him an Israeli visa.
A foreign passport is the most prized possession in the colony, and residents are sparing no effort to secure one. Marriage counselors report booming business from people desperately seeking foreign national spouses.
He said passport applications would be handled in 30 days, with urgent cases settled in three days or less.
Mrs. Thatcher told Hong Kong Gov. David Wilson in talks this month that giving right of residence to the 3.25 million British passport holders in Hong Kong was politically impossible.
"It just might be a put-on," Perez said. "If they did find a purse or found the passport, that may have been just a trick by Sara and Constanzo to (appear) she is dead.
No date has been set for the custody hearing, and Morgan still is awaiting a Superior Court ruling in Washington, D.C., to regain her passport, confiscated when she went to jail in August 1987 for refusing to disclose Hilary's whereabouts.
"Somehow, God got us through four Iraqi checkpoints," he wrote. "The soldiers requested the documents of the driver, who had a diplomatic passport, but never asked for mine." He also wrote of being glad that his wife and seven children were safe.
Jordanian authorities said nine tourists and a Jordanian tour photographer were wounded Monday in the bus rampage by Ahmad Badwan, 28, a Palestinian from the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip who carried a temporary Jordanian passport and lived in Amman.
The Italians will join British and Japanese citizens under a special program giving them the privilege of entering the United States without the usual document required in addition to a passport.
Britain has said it hopes the passport package will boost confidence by encouraging key residents to stay in the territory by giving them a last resort.
The lordship entitles the new owner to describe himself as "Lord of the Manor of Stratford-upon-Avon" on his stationery and passport.
However, John Lenahan, representing Morgan's former husband and the girl's father, Dr. Eric Foretich, argued that returning the passport would only give Morgan "an opportunity to further defy" the previous contempt of court order.
Ramadan Ali, a consulting engineer who travels widely and holds both Egyptian and United States citizenship, said he hid his U.S. passport in his briefcase and showed only his Egyptian documents.