Burmese passport

In 2014, authorities opened 15 new passport issuing centres in Myanmar in addition to the existing two offices in Yangon and Mandalay. The new offices were opened in each seven states and seven regions of Myanmar, and also in the country’s capital Naypyidaw. [1]

In April 2010 the Myanmar passport was upgraded from hand-written to machine readable passport.

Previously, three types of passport were issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs. Government officials were issued with a green passport. Diplomats were issued with a blue passport. All other citizens receive a red passport.

In 2016, the Ministry of Home Affairs announced that nine types of passports in different colours would be issued to Myanmar citizens.

The nine types are:

• PB – Business Passport;
• PT – Dependent Passport;
• PJ – Job Passport;
• PR – Religious Passport;
• PS – Seaman Passport;
• PE – Student Passport;
• PV – Visit Passport;
• PD – Diplomatic Passport and
• PO – Official Passport.

A red passport will be issued for citizens, a blue passport for diplomats and a green passport for governmental officials. [2] The red passport is valid for 5 years and the green passport for three.

Countries and territories with visa-free entries or visas on arrival for holders of regular Myanmar passports In 2019, Myanmar citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 46 countries and territories, ranking the Myanmar passport 95th in the world according to the Visa Restrictions Index.

  Myanmar

  Visa free access

  Visa on arrival

  eVisa

  Visa available both on arrival or online

  Visa required

As of January 2018, Myanmar ordinary passport holders can travel to Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam without a visa. They are permitted to enter and remain in those countries for not more than 14 days without visa except the Philippines and Singapore, which permits a stay of up to 30 days. [3]

Visa on Arrival for Myanmar citizens is available in Maldives and Macau while eVisa is available to enter India.[4][5] The Transit Without Visa (TWOV) is applicable at KLIA and KLIA2 airport for Myanmar citizens holding ordinary passport for a maximum of 120 hours stop-over in Malaysia.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

British Indian passports were issued to residents of Burma/Myanmar when it was a part of British India

Prior to Burmese independence in 1948, British Indian passports were issued to residents of Burma when it formed part of the British India.