Visa

• “Truth be told, having two passports in Japan is not necessarily a problem. If one lived a quiet life, one could conceivably keep renewing a non-Japanese passport ad infinitum. The USG permits dual citizenship and doesn't go out of its way to tell other governments about the nationalities of their citizens. However, as you know, I don't live a quiet life.”

• “To lose a passport was the least of one's worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe.”

• “I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "What are you?"”

• “I got an Irish passport the other day. I love it. It's the best thing in my pocket.”

• “Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.”

• “Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and our people rediscover their identity and thereby increase their self respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.”

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Visa across IJR