Evening star., 1915-01-10
By Pop.

the top and the Departments official
seal. splotched in red wax, at the bot
tom. 1t reads as follows:
To All to Whom These Presents Shall Come,
Greeting:
! ]. the Undersigned. Secretary OF State Of the
| United states Of America, hereby request all
whom 1t may concern to permit ..............,
ly and freely to pass and in Of need TO give
| -.-.... all lawful aid and protection.
| Identification and description of the
| bearer of the passport occupies the
| lower left-hand corner OF the docu-
I ment: the great seal of the State De-
partment appears in the lower middle
| Of the sheet. and the lower righthand
| corner is taken up with the official sig
! nature of the~Secretary OF State. The
photograph ef the bearer appears at
the top left-hand corner, crossed with
the departments impression seal, and
the newly required attested notification
before referred to is placed in the up
per right-hand corner. These passports
are good for two years from the date
of issue.
Applications for passports by natu-
rallied citizens of the United States
must be made on special forms pTovid-
ed for that class of citizens. Certificates
of naturalization must accompany the
application, and the information sworn
to gives in detail all facts regarding
the nationality of the applicant. length
of residence in the United States, etc,
! The same oath of allegiance to the
! United States is required on this form
of application as in the case of native
citizens. Still another form of applica-
tion is required in the case of persons
claiming citizenship through the nat
uraliZation of husband parent, the
oath of allegiance, physical description,
identification and photograph, however,
being required in all cases.
According to act of Congress, no one
but the Secretary of State is author
iZed to grant and issue passports in the
nit tn1 ctaf =,
in his discretion In foreign countries,
however, passports may be issued in
emergencies by diplomatic officials or
by consular officers in places where the
resentatives. These passports are is
sued for periods of not longer than six
months and are for travel or tempo
rary stays in only such countries as are
specified in the passport.
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For instance, an American citizen in
England might desire to go to Russia,
and circumstances might be such as to
make it inconvenient for him to wait
for the issuance of a passport by the
State Department in Washington. In
such cases the United States consul or
other diplomatic representative in
England is authorized to issue a pass
port good for six months only and COW
erIng travel in Russia alone
Practically all the countries of Eu-
rope, since the outbreak of the war,
nave made more stringent the require
ments for the wise of consular Of
hcers OF such countries on American
passports. Only Great Britain, of all
the warning countries, has not yet
made this requirement. Passports for
entry into Germany must be viseed by
diplomatic or consular officials of that
country stationed in the United States.
American citizens going to Russia
must have their passports viseed by a
Russian consular officer in the United
States at San Francisco, Chicago or
New York. and such persons as desire
to remain in Russia longer than three
months are required to make a special
request to that effect.
Passports to be. used in Turkey
should, the State Department advises, |
be viseed by Turkish consular Of
f1cer, either in the United States. at
San Francisco, Chicago, Boston or New |
York. or at Turkish consulate abroad |
Passports to be used in Italy are re- |
Quired to be viseed by an Italian Con- |
sular officer. preferably in the United |
States. As neither Roumania nor Servia |
maintains consular officials in the |
United States, passports to be used in |
those countries must be viseed by con-
sular representatives in some foreign |
country
Austria Hungary. Denmark and |
france require tndI american pass 4
ports must be viseed by consular Of |
ficers representing those countries in |
the United States: passports for use in |
Spain must be viseed by the Spanish |
ambassador in Washington or a Span
ish consul in New York; New Orleans
or San Francisco.
The wise on passport is simply the
official approval of the consular Of |
fetal who af!ixes it, and his declaration
that the person for whom he vises the |
passport is actually the person de-
scribed in the document and the one to
whom il was issued.