New Zealand Certificate of Identity
Encyclopedia
The New Zealand Certificate of Identity is an international biometric
travel document
issued by the Department of Internal Affairs to an alien resident of New Zealand
who is unable to obtain a national passport. It is not usually issued to a person whose government is represented in either New Zealand or Australia
.
Biometric passport
A biometric passport, also known as an e-passport or ePassport, is a combined paper and electronic passport that contains biometric information that can be used to authenticate the identity of travelers...
travel document
Travel document
A travel document is an identity document issued by a government or international treaty organization to facilitate the movement of individuals or small groups of persons across international boundaries...
issued by the Department of Internal Affairs to an alien resident of New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
who is unable to obtain a national passport. It is not usually issued to a person whose government is represented in either New Zealand or Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
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