Nansen passport

Nansen passport
The front cover of a Nansen passport (green stripe), written in French, the diplomatic language
Type	Passport
Issued by	League of Nations
First issued	1922
Purpose	Identification
Eligibility	Stateless refugees
Expiration	1938

Nansen passports, originally and officially stateless persons passports, were internationally recognized refugee travel documents from 1922 to 1938, first issued by the League of Nations's Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees to stateless refugees.^[1] They quickly became known as "Nansen passports" for their promoter, the Norwegian statesman and polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen.