How to apply for a passport? What does a visa mean?

Bring my ID card to the exit-entry administration department of the local police station and public security bureau where the account is located, and the exit-entry administration department of the local public security bureau or the travel agency participating in the group will receive the Application Form for China citizens to go abroad for personal reasons and fill in the application form. Submit an application. When submitting an application, you need to bring the following materials: my ID card; Fill in the original application form; A color photo that meets the requirements. Get a passport After accepting the application, the Exit-Entry Administration Office of the local public security bureau will examine, approve, make and issue it.

Visa is the annotation and seal of the sovereign organ of a country on the passport or other travel documents held by its own or foreign citizens to show that they are allowed to enter or leave its own territory or pass through it. It can also be said that it is an endorsement certificate issued to them.

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Passport is a legal document issued by a country to prove the nationality and identity of its citizens when they enter and leave the country and travel or stay abroad. The word Passport means port pass in English. In other words, a passport is a passport for citizens to pass through international ports in various countries. Therefore, some countries in the world usually issue passes instead of passports.

In China, the origin of passports can be traced back to the Warring States Period. In ancient China, people used bamboo slips, fabrics, boards, jade or paper to make seals, contracts, photos, passes and Jeff. Fu Chuan, Zheng Lu, Lu Yin and other documents entered and exited the Guanjin frontier fortress, which recorded the contents similar to modern visas. In the Qing Dynasty, according to the identification of the pass documents, the function, convenience and necessary assistance of "protection" and "care" were requested from the border inspection authorities.

In the 20th century, the Qing court attached great importance to the management of passports, and the category of "travel passports" appeared. Jilin General yamen has also formulated a passport-style passport charter. During the Republic of China, the central government formulated a relatively complete passport system, and the National Government promulgated the Passport Regulations on June1932+1October 3/KLOC-0. After the founding of New China, passports of the People's Republic of China were printed and activated, and the system of printing, issuing, using and managing passports was formulated. The western name of passport comes not from "seaport", but from the documents used to pass through the gate of the city wall in the Middle Ages.

In medieval Europe, some documents could be sent to travelers by the local ruling forces, generally including the list of towns that the holders were allowed to pass through. For example, this system continued to France until 1860. During this period, you don't need a passport to go to the seaport, which is related to free trade, but you need to fill in a passport from the seaport to the inland city. Early passports often did this, but not always, including descriptions of the holder's body, and photos were not added until the first decade of the 20th century.

The word "passport" was first translated into "passport" in 1845, and it is still in use today. Nansen passport is an internationally recognized identity card, which was first introduced by the League of Nations. It was designed for stateless refugees. 1922 was designed by Norwegian diplomat Friedjoff Vedel-Jasberg Nansen; Until 1942, 52 countries recognized the passport and issued about 450,000 copies to help hundreds of thousands of stateless people emigrate to other countries. Coordinated the issuance of Nansen International Refugee Relief Agency in nansen passport and won the Nobel Peace Prize with 1938.