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Nansen passport
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Key facts
- Type
- Passport
- Issued by
- League of Nations
- Purpose
- Identification
- Eligibility
- Stateless refugees
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- passport
- Named after
- Fridtjof Nansen
- Image
- No-nb bldsa 6e001.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
Nansen passports, originally and officially stateless persons passports, were internationally recognized refugee travel documents from 1922 to 1938, first issued by the League of Nations's Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees to stateless refugees. They quickly became known as "Nansen passports" for their promoter, the Norwegian statesman and polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nansen passport” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.