The passport design was disclosed on 14 March 2008.
The passport design including images from the Jelling Stones was introduced in 1997, when the current red design was introduced.
EU member states use a common passport design, burgundy coloured with the name of the member state, Coat of Arms and the title "European Union" (or its translation).
The special edition release for this single featured different packaging, namely a leather case with a mock passport design, using the band's Smileybones as the centrepiece.
The legislation for a planned, apartheid-like system already existed in design in 1940, including laws for slaves and an African passport design.
The passport design contains the traditional ornamental motifs and heraldry of Ukraine and its regions.
One of the motivations for a new passport design was to ensure that it would remain difficult to produce counterfeit New Zealand passports.
The Department of Internal Affairs plans to have a new passport design within five years of the last launch (i.e. before November 2014) in order to keep ahead of fraudsters who seek to counterfeit New Zealand passports.
The Libyan passport design has changed at least 3 times.
The declaration adopted in Cusco, Peru, establishing the Union of South American Nations, signalled an intention to establish a common passport design, but this appears to be a long way away.
