Talk:Camouflage passport
Redirect
Added a redirect from fantasy passport as no article exists there. I don't agree that a camouflage or fantasy passport are different things. They are just slightly different sides of the same coin and there is no justification for two articles saying the same thing.
Any objection to my updating the article to reflect this? --Spartaz 16:03, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
In the absence of any objection... --Spartaz 16:14, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Soviet Union
The Russian Federation was until recently still using up its stock of Soviet Union passports. They are neither fantasy nor camouflage documents so I have removed the reference. --Spartaz 16:28, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Russia’s known and reckless practice of using old paper stock to issue current passports does not resurrect the Soviet Union. The USSR does not exist and it does not issue passports. I don’t know whether the Russian Federation marks up its newly issued passports with the name of the issuing county, I suspect they do. In an case, “camouflage passports” issued in the name of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, are openly available and have been for years. E.g. You can issue them. I can issue them. The Russian Federation can issue them as easily as Latvia. Again, the USSR does not exist and it cannot issue passports.
--Criticality 20:14, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Hong Kong
removed
- British Hong Kong (absorbed by the People's Republic of China)
from main page. Eh? Not aware of any HNK comouflage/fantasy passport. There is still BRitish National Overseas passports but they are not comouflage passports as they are issued by the UK Government.
--Spartaz 10:41, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Camouflage passports are sold in the name of “British Hong Kong.” E.g. Why is it that you are convinced otherwise?
As you might recall, there was a time, not so long ago, when Hong Kong was actually a leased possession of the British Crown. Alas, however, Hong Kong is no longer British and now passports issued in the name of a “British Hong Kong” are patently bogus. Nevertheless, they have the veneer of reality, and might fool an ignorant or careless person (none of those around here) with malevolent intent, so they fill the role of a camouflage passport readily. As you suggest, UK passports issued British National overseas passports are, of course, REAL. Similarly, previous UK/HK “BDTC” passports were also real but all expired by 30 June 1997. So, what is your point?