Chilean passport

Chilean passport (Spanish: Pasaporte chileno) is an identity document issued to citizens of Chile to facilitate international travel.

Chilean passports are valid for worldwide travel and facilitate the access to consular services whilst abroad.

Citizens of Chile do not need a passport when traveling to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.

The redesign was part of a program organized by the Ministry of Justice, where Chileans chose the passport's graphic identity and symbols through an online poll in 2012.

[1] Regular biometric passports issued since September 2013 (until the introduction of the new type in December 2024) are burgundy red colored.

The data page has several security features, such as the digitalized photograph and signature of the bearer, as coat of arms visible under ultraviolet light and a Moai printed with optically variable ink over the upper-left corner of the bearer's photograph.

e.g. [1] These costs may vary in accordance with rises determined annually by the Civil Registry & Identification Service.

[citation needed] The Registro Civil e Identificación and the Ministry of Justice of Chile awarded the contract to manufacture new Chilean biometric passports and ID cards to France-based Morpho S.A.S (now IDEMIA) on 20 January 2012.