Colombian citizens do not need a passport when traveling to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

It uses the same machine-readable system, but with an integrated chip where information such as fingerprints, photos and data of the document holder is stored.

From 15 July 2010, this document could be applied for in Bogotá and from 5 August 2010 at passport offices in the governorates of the rest of the country and consulates abroad.

The biometric photograph of the passport must identify the person and for this reason, has requirements: it must be 4 x 5 cm in size, the background must be clear and uniform, the face visible, taken recently.

The document contains embossed and fluorescent holograms, which makes it almost impossible to forge and has the highest security standards.