New visa rules issued by UAE authorities can stop you from flying to and from the country if your passport doesn’t mention your name in the desired way. On November 21, 2022, Indian Airlines, including Spice jet, Indigo and Air India Express, notified travel agents across India about UAE’s new immigration rule.

UAE new visa rules: You won’t be able to fly if THIS detail is missing in your passport

Authorities in Iran have returned the passport of Ali Daei, the country's football legend confirmed to AFP on Monday, after confiscating it for supporting protests over Mahsa Amini's death.

Iran football star Ali Daei's passport seized for supporting protests

Japan, Singapore, and South Korea have the world's strongest passports, according to the most recent rankings made public by Henley Passport Index. For the sixth year running, a Japanese passport continues to be the most effective and allows for hassle-free travel into 193 nations.

How powerful is the Indian passport? Indians get visa-free access to these 60 countries

In pics - World's most and least powerful passports

Sri Lankans have been queuing up, for food, fuel, and more recently passports. Sri Lankans have been applying for new passports in a bid to leave the country amid the economic crisis.

Queues in Sri Lanka – for fuel, food & now passports

Five Iranian crew of a cargo plane grounded in Argentina since last week have had their passports temporarily seized pending a probe into possible links to Iran's Revolutionary Guards, officials said Monday.

Argentina seizes passports of grounded plane's Iranian crew

Ontario is easing Covid curbs starting from Thursday. Also, vaccine passport requirements will be lifted in the Canadian province starting from March 1. Premier Doug Ford, while speaking at a press conference said, "We're going to get rid of the passports.

Canada's Ontario to lift Covid vaccine passport requirement

San Francisco-born Eileen Gu, who lifted the host country to the top of the medals table at the Beijing Olympics with a Freeski Big Air gold on Tuesday, remained evasive on whether she was still holding an American passport.

Eileen Gu dodges US passport question after lifting China to top of the medals table at Beijing Games

A person identified as an American diplomat has been accused of providing a fake passport to a Syrian national. He has now been arrested. As per reports by Turkey's news agency, the man was detained at Istanbul Airport on November 11.

US diplomat arrested for allegedly selling fake passport to Syrian national in Turkey

In a bid to provide relief to thousands of Afghan people, the interim Taliban government is all set to start reissuing passports.

Afghanistan: Taliban to resume issuing passports

United States has issued its first Gender X passport, U.S. is not the first country to allow citizens to declare themselves as non-binary, third gender on their passports. India, and 14 other countries, already have the provision. Palki Sharma brings you a report.

Gravitas: U.S. issues its first Gender X passport

These countries allow non-binary gender on passports like in US

The United States has issued its first-ever passport offering a third gender designation, 'X' for those who identify as intersex.

US issues first-ever passport with 'X' gender marker

People in Afghanistan are still clamoring to leave the country, crowds of people desperate to get travel documents gathered at the passport office in Kabul.

Months of passport delay restricted Afghans trying to leave Kabul

These days every second person has '#Wanderlust'. Almost everyone is an 'explorer, adventure seeker and much more'. The tall claims in Instagram bio fall short either due to money or visa.

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Several people who were seeking to leave Afghanistan for medical treatment and other facilities, gathered outside the passport department in Kabul. People complained about the passport department being closed and said that despite repeated promises to resume the operations of the department, the passport office is yet to open.

Afghanistan: Passport department remains shut, trouble for many Afghans

Vaccine passports will now be required for nightclubs, mass events and large venues in England by the end of September, the vaccines minister has confirmed. He said that would allow businesses to stay open during the winter months if COVID-19 surges.

Vaccine passports needed to keep venues in England open

The world stopped in 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic hit, and many countries went into total or partial lockdowns. However, that led to disruption of lives and the downfall of the economy.

How to link vaccine certificate to passport? WION explains

Britain plans to drop COVID-19 passports as a legal requirement for large events, The Daily Telegraph reported on Sunday. The UK officials working on the review into COVID-19 status certificates believe there is no chance the law will be changed to mandate their use within the UK, the report added.

UK vaccine passport plans to be scrapped: The Telegraph

You could hear the music from the sidewalk, high-spirited renditions of “Ice Ice Baby” and “MMMBop.” It was ’90s night at Rumi, a ballroom and event space in the Chelsea section of Manhattan in New York City, and millennials and Gen Zers lined up to get inside.

Want to party? You might need a ‘vaccine passport.’

Baseball is back across California. Tickets to see Bad Bunny early next year were snatched up in no time. The Musso &amp; Frank Grill — the iconic, very much indoors Hollywood haunt — has announced it will reopen May 6.

Will you need a vaccine passport in California?

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson risks triggering a major backlash among lawmakers if his government opts to use the "Covid passports" to help re-open the economy as it starts lifting lockdown restrictions.

UK lawmakers oppose use of Covid-19 passports

Is the COVID vaccine passport set to become the new norm in 2021 and do we all need to have one soon? This is a pertinent question that is been asked after Israel became the first nation to introduce a certification system allowing those vaccinated against COVID-19 to get entitlement to certain facilities. Everything you need to know about COVID-19 'vaccine passport'.

What is a 'vaccine passport'? All you need to know

A polling station sent the Dutch health minister home to get a valid passport after he presented an expired one while trying to vote in a national election on Wednesday.

Rules are rules: Dutch health minister's passport rejected at polling station 

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