Five Nations Passport Group
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The Five Nations Passport Group is an international forum for the passport-issuing authorities of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States to share best practices in the issuance, development, and management of passports.[1][2] The annual Five Nations Passport Conference is a largely informal in-person meeting between officials of the participating agencies, with some additional invited guests such as the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 2011. It has taken place since at least as far back as 2004.[3]
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The member states' issuing authorities are comparable to each other: their passport issuance systems are mostly centralised and their service channels are similar to each other.[4] None of the Five Nations countries has a compulsory identity management system, which means that citizens' personal information is not available in a central citizenship database or registry.[4]
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The agency that participates in the Five Nations Passport Group for each state is their relevant passport-issuing authority:
Unlike EU passports, which follow a common format, Five Nations passports develop through the sharing of best practices and information relating to the development of passports. However, all Five Nations passports are biometric and machine-readable, and B7 sized (ISO/IEC 7810 ID-3, 88 mm × 125 mm).[citation needed]
Generally, Five Nations passport holders have access to each other's automated border control systems. Currently, all Five Nations passport holders have access to Australia and New Zealand's SmartGate system[5] and the UK's ePassport gates.[6] Similarly, British passport holders[a] have access to the US's Global Entry programme, while Canadians have access to the NEXUS programme.[7] Australia is also planning to participate in Global Entry.[8]
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The numbers of Five Nations passports in circulation are:
Australia:[9] 14,614,941 (2020)
Canada:[10] 23,790,000 (2018)
New Zealand:[11] 2,900,000
United Kingdom[12]
- British Citizen: 51,116,513 (2019)
- Gibraltar: 2,240 (2019)
- British National (Overseas): 314,779
United States:[13] 143,116,633[b] (2020 fiscal year)
- Includes United States passport cards
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