What determines Passport colors? is travel or immigration or employment?

Question

what determines passport colors? why are some blue, some green, some red? has it got something to do with where u can travel or work? can someone please explain this to me?

I dont mean just US passports, for example Brazilian passports are green, Malaysian are red, why do different countries use different colours?

Answer 1

Most countries, including the US, have three different types of passports: ordinary tourist passports, official passports, and diplomatic passports. These are almost always differentiated by color. In the US, tourist passports are blue, official passports are burgundy, diplomatic passports are black.

Different countries use whatever colors they want to use. And some countries do use different colors to differentiate between other types of travellers, as well. There is no universal code for passport colors.

Answer 2

The country issuing the passport determines the colour. It is usually some kind of national colour, e.g. the US have a dark blue and New Zealand have black.

The exception to this is countries that belong to the European Union - all passports of member countries have a dark red colour as this is the colour of the EU.

Answer 3

of i remember they used to be black also. the green is for student visa's, other colors are diplomates and regular travlers. it helps to tell easier who is who.