Where Can I Find Series Number on Passport
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Document: GBR-AO-05001
Issuing Country:
GBR - United Kingdom • UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND •
Document Category:
A - Passport
Document type:
O - ordinary document
Document version number:
05001
First issued on:
07/12/2015
Legal status / main purpose:
Travel document issued to nationals of: GBR - United Kingdom • UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND •
Overall construction:
single booklet
Validity
Maximum validity:
10 year(s)
Minimum age for validity:
16 year(s)
Extension is possible:
no
Validity-additional information:
Since 10 September 2001, UK digital image passports are valid up to 10 years and 9 months.
Validity
Maximum validity:
5 year(s)
Minimum age for validity:
0 year(s)
Maximum age for validity:
15 year(s)
Extension is possible:
no
Validity-additional information:
Since 10 September 2001, UK digital image passports are valid up to 5 years and 9 months.
Business passports have 48 pages.
Outside front cover
Cover embossing:
hot foil stamping
Inside front cover
- UV feature
- Printing technique
Security features:
UV feature
UV feature:
fluorescent overprint (invisible under normal light)
Security features:
Printing technique
All text on the inside front cover is intaglio printed
Technique:
intaglio printing
Description:
latent image "UK"
Latent image
Inside back cover
- UV feature
- Printing technique
Security features:
UV feature
UV feature:
fluorescent overprint (invisible under normal light)
Security features:
Printing technique
Security Element:
latent image
Technique:
intaglio printing
Description:
latent image "UK"
Security features:
Substrate
Security features:
Watermark
Description:
Gipsy Moth IV sailing vessel surrounded by four floral emblems (rose, daffodil, thistle and shamrock); in addition to the multitone and electrotype, also Cornerstone®, Edgestone and (round shaped, bright) 'SkyLight' watermarks.
Watermark position:
positioned - centred
Watermark and additional SkyLight watermark feature
Security features:
UV feature
UV feature:
fluorescent overprint (invisible under normal light)
Security features:
OVD (optically variable device)
OVD description:
Metallised area at the left side and beneath the holder's image - there it contains a unique serial number which is not the same as the passport's serial number.
Security features:
Laminate
Laminate UV features:
yes
Security features:
Facial image
Photo integration technique:
inkjet printing
Security features:
Printing technique
Description:
see-through register depicting a nautical compass under transmitted light
Inner page(s)
- UV feature
- Numbering
Page 1
Title page displays document serial number. No page number is printed. Principal text is in English, Welsh and Scottish Gaelic, with equivalent text in languages of the other EU Member States.
Security features:
UV feature
UV feature:
fluorescent overprint (invisible under normal light)
Security features:
Numbering
Page 3
This page is reserved for official observations. Any observations will be printed by inkjet.
Security features:
Watermark
Description:
different style electrotype watermark of the same sailing vessel and floral motifs as on the biodata page
Watermark position:
positioned - centred
Security features:
UV feature
UV feature:
fluorescent overprint (invisible under normal light)
Security features:
Facial image
Photo type:
secondary (ghost) image - colour
Photo integration technique:
inkjet printing
Security features:
Printing technique
Security Element:
rainbow colouring
Description:
fine-line design depicting a map of the United Kingdom
Technique:
intaglio printing
Inner page(s)
(From) Page number (as printed):
5
Up to page number (as printed):
34
Each visa page in the 34-page passport is unique, with the design spreading across the two adjacent pages. Page 33 has no visible security fibres.
Pages 6 and 7
Pages 8 - 33: visa pages
Page 34
Security features:
Watermark
Description:
Portrait of Wiliam Shakespeare. The visa pages include in addition an electrotype watermark in the form of a writer's guill which includes the two page numbers.
Watermark position:
positioned - centred
Security features:
UV feature
UV feature:
fluorescent overprint (invisible under normal light)
Security features:
Printing technique
Security features:
Printing technique
Technique:
intaglio printing
This information is supplied to you by the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union. It has been selected and compiled by document experts in the United Kingdom • UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND •
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Where Can I Find Series Number on Passport
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