The Somaliland passport (Somali: Baasaboorka Somaliland, Arabic: جواز سفر صوماليلاندي) is the passport issued to citizens of the unrecognized country of Somaliland for international travel.^[2][3][4] A passport was issued for the first time in 1996, and a biometric passport was in 2014, in line with new global standards and the requirements of the International Civil Aviation Organization.

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Somaliland Passport Baasaboorka Somaliland (Somali) جواز سفر صوماليلاندي (Arabic)
The front cover of Somaliland passport
Data page of a first generation biometric passport
Type	Passport
Issued by	Somaliland Immigration[1]
First issued	1996 (first version) 14 September 2014 (biometric version)
Purpose	Identification
Eligibility	Somalilander citizenship
Expiration	5 years
Cost	$110 for Somaliland National ID holders.

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The color of the Somaliland passport is black, and it bears the symbol of the state's sovereignty. It also bears the following inscriptions in the Somali, Arabic and English languages:.

Above:

"Republic of Somaliland" (Somali: JAMHUURIYADDA SOMALILAND) (Arabic: الجمهورية صومالي لاند)

In the center: there is the Emblem of Somaliland

Below: «Passport» (Somali: BAASABOOR) (Arabic: جواز سفر)

Notably, the three-letter code used in Somaliland passports to represent the country and nationality is RSL, which is, understandably, absent from the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 list of country codes.

Citizens with a Somaliland travel document can go to the following countries:

•  Belgium^{[citation needed]}
•  South Africa^{[citation needed]}
•  Ethiopia^{[citation needed]}
•  Djibouti^{[citation needed]}
•  United Kingdom^[5]
•  United States^{[citation needed]}
•  Malaysia^{[citation needed]}
•  France^{[citation needed]}
•  Saudi Arabia^{[citation needed]}
•  South Sudan^{[citation needed]}
•  Kenya^{[citation needed]}
•  Tanzania^{[citation needed]}
•  UAE^[6]
•  Zambia^[7]
•  Turkey^[8]
•  Taiwan^[9]

There are a number of types of Somaliland passports:

• Regular Passport (black cover): issued to Somaliland citizens.
• Service Passport (green cover): issued to members of Parliament, members of the Government.
• Diplomatic Passport (red cover): issued to diplomats serving abroad and to high-ranking officials from the executive branch and their families during their period of service.

• British Somaliland Passport issued during the British era in the 1930s.
• A Republic of Somaliland passport issued in 1996.

• Visa policy of Somaliland