Hong Kong SAR passport
| Hong Kong Special Administrative Region passport | |
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| Issued by |
 Hong Kong
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| Type of document | Passport |
| Eligibility requirements | Permanent residents of Hong Kong who are Chinese citizens |
| Expiration | 10 years after acquisition for adults aged 16 or over, 5 for children |
| Hong Kong Special Administrative Region passport | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 香港特別行政區護照 | ||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Hēung góng dahk biht hàhng jing kēui wuh jiu |
| Jyutping | Hoeng1 gong2 dak6 bit6 hang4 zing3 keoi1 wu6 ziu3 |
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Passport is issued to permanent residents of Hong Kong who are citizens of the People's Republic of China. In accordance with the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, since the transfer of sovereignty on 1 July 1997, the passport has been issued by the Immigration Department of the Government of Hong Kong under the authorisation of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China. As the official languages of Hong Kong are Chinese and English, the passport is printed bilingually in both Chinese (traditional characters) and English.
In English, the passport is sometimes referred to by its long-form name which appears on the cover (i.e. the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region People's Republic of China passport – a literal translation of the Chinese title 中華人民共和國香港特別行政區護照). Alternatively, the passport is commonly referred to as the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region passport (Chinese: 香港特別行政區護照) (the Hong Kong legislative ordinance concerning the passport is titled the "Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Passports Ordinance (Chapter 539)", the Hong Kong SAR passport, the HKSAR passport or the Hong Kong passport.
Although a number of foreign authorities may refer to Hong Kong SAR passports as "Hong Kong passports" – "香港護照" in Chinese – few Hong Kong people do, in recognition of the historical complexity and range of travel documents for Hong Kong residents. Most frequently, the Hong Kong SAR passport is known as "特區護照" – a literal translation in English would be "SAR passport".
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