Icelandic passport

Icelandic passport
The front cover of a contemporary Icelandic biometric passport
The biodata page of an Icelandic biometric passport
Date first issued	May 2006 (biometric) June 2013 (current version)
Issued by	Iceland
Type of document	Passport
Purpose	Identification
Eligibility requirements	Icelandic citizenship
Expiration	10 years from date of issue (adults, 2014)
Cost	€65 (adults, 2014)

Icelandic passports are issued to citizens of Iceland for the purpose of international travel.

Icelandic passports are blue, with the Icelandic coat of arms emblazoned in the centre of the front cover. The words "ÍSLAND" (Icelandic), "ICELAND" (English) and "ISLANDE" (French) are inscribed above the coat of arms and the words "VEGABRÉF" (Icelandic), "PASSPORT" (English) and "PASSEPORT" (French) are inscribed below the coat of arms. Icelandic passports have the standard biometric symbol at the bottom.

Vegabréf literally means "road letter" and is a word used in Scandinavia in historic centuries meaning internal passport.

The Icelandic passport includes the following data:

The information page ends with the Machine Readable Zone.

Personal names containing the special Icelandic letters (ð, þ, æ, ö) are spelled the correct way in the non-machine-readable zone, but are mapped in the machine-readable zone. ð becomes D, þ becomes TH, æ becomes AE, and ö becomes OE.
Letters with accents are replaced by simple letters (e.g., é → E). This follows the standard for machine-readable passports.

The data page/information page is printed in Icelandic, English and French.

Visa requirements for Icelandic citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Iceland. In 2015, Icelandic citizens had visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 164 countries and territories, ranking the Icelandic passport 8th in the world (on par with the Czech passport). Moreover, by virtue of Iceland's membership of the European Economic Area, they can travel to 28 European Union member states, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland to live and work as long as they wish.