1954 Convention travel document

A 1954 Convention travel document is a travel document, unlike a Stateless travel document (stateless person by a signatory to the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons), issued to a person in circumstances of any difficulties in gaining a travel document from their country of origin.^[1] The cover bears the words travel document in English and French (and often in the language of the issuing state) along with the date of the convention, but does not bear the two stripes appearing in the upper left corner of the front cover of refugee travel documents. However, some countries, such as Australia and Japan, issue stateless persons travel documents with other names such as Certificate of Identity or Re-entry Permit, etc., regardless of whether the country is a contracting state of 1954 Convention.^[2][3]

A 1954 Convention travel document issued in Germany in 2008

Australian Certificate of Identity, serves as a Stateless Travel Document

See also

• Refugee identity certificate
• Travel document
• Passport
• Refugee travel document
• Certificate of identity