German Passport | American Passport

Difference between Passports

It is my USpassport and I'll tell you guys what's inside of this and I will be comparing it to the German Reisepass which is the German passport. so right off the bat you can tell they're entirely different colors. We've got blue for the u.s.passport and this dark red for the German passport. I'm sure guys in the U.S. Passport just says passport and then it says theUnited States of America and it has the little emblem...icon here which shows that is a biometric document and the German passport says European Union in German Of course it says bundesrepublik deutschland the Republic of Germany and it says Reisepass which I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly.

And it's also about this little icon denoting that it is a biometric document. we've also got the u.s. The passport has the great seal of the US which is a bald eagle with an olive branch and some arrows and it has a lot of symbolism behind it thatI'm not going to go over and then there is the coat of arms for the German Passport which is their eagle. Red colour (Deutsche pass) my boyfriend's old passport and you know it's an old passport because it actually has this cut taken out of it right here so that anybody looking at it or trying to scan you or whatever would know immediately that this thing is expired or no longer in use for whatever reason.I tried to find my old passport and couldn't but from what I remember the way that we denote that it is no longer a passport within use is that we punch a hole right here through the important stuff that if anyone was trying to scan they would notice it and I think actually the hole also will go through the cover itself. okay so when you first open up the u.s. passport, guys,

I'm not kidding this thing is so patriotic like it it's really pretty insane every time I'm just like okay so we have the beginning of our national anthem over here with a very patriotic scene. We've got the background with like the red and white stripes again with our seal, and it says "and that government of the people by the people for the the people shall not perish from the earth, "which is a well-known quote from Abraham Lincoln, our sixteenth president" and is later translated into French and Spanish. okay

So in the German passport on the first page they've got their coat of arms again and then it has a EuropeanUnion written in like every single language, I mean it's not every language guys I get it, but it's a lot of languages and then it saysBundesrepublik Deutschland that's also translated into many,many different languages and then Reisepass which means passport again translated into many different languages.  Okay,

so when you turn to the next page again, you guys so patriotic.We have "we the people" and it has the flag and the eagle and all these symbols that mean a lot to the history of the United States and it has my signature here and then it has all of my important information that you would need for identity purposes and I covered the important stuff with duct tape. but it has the type of passport, P, I'm guessing means it's a tourist passport. it has my name, what my nationality is, it has my date of birth the state I was born in which is Colorado... love Colorado. it has the date of issue, date of expiration, and it obviously most importantly has my picture. the German passport on the next page has a similar little setup.

It's a lot darker than ours, I feel like... like whenever my boyfriend handed this to me I was like is this like a relic like this thing looks really old but it's not and this is not me making fun of the German passport guys okay this is just my observations everybody calm down.so it's got his photo right here. It also has a type of passport. It's also a tourist Passport. it has his name, it has that he's German,that he's male, his place of birth but actually it just has the city which is interesting to me because he was not born in Germany but yet it still only has the city not the city and country whereas mine has both the state and the country which is Colorado is in the US if you did not know. it has the date of issue, the date of expiration.. over here it says the city that it was issued in which was Magdeberg and on this page right here so whereas ours is just like my signature his signature by the way would be right here..I covered it up in duct tape. um on this page it has this stamp that says Mainz and then it has City Mainz stamped right there and I asked him why that is and he told me that every time you move to a new city in Germany you're supposed to go and have that updated in your passport which I found really interesting because we don't do that in the u.s.

We just have a place of birth, it doesn't even say ...I got this passport when I was living in Texas, and nowhereon here does it even say that I got the passport in Texas so that's a pretty big difference. and it has his eye color here and his height which is on our drivers licenses in the US but it's not on our passports. so earlier I mentioned that ours is translated into its English and then it's French and then it'sSpanish. with his passport it is in German and then it's in English and then it's in French on the next page of my passport we've got personal data and emergency contact which I did not fill out at all and then it kind of tells you some rules regarding the passport and this is where you start seeing quotes on every single page that are you know referencing theUS history so it says "the principle of free governments adhere to the American Soil it is embedded in it immovable as its mountains'' by Daniel Webster. so that's what you start seeing on every single page is like an extremely like patriotic quote spanning across the two pages. you don't find that in the German Passport it's much more straightforward and less... less patriotic we'll just say that which is very indicative of Germanycompared to the US. so on his next page it looks like it just has some more information about where it was and when it was issued then he has a bunch of information regarding the passport and it is translated into many many many many many different languages again. okay

So on my passport on the 8th page is where you start getting to where all the passport stamps are and like I said the quotes that are on every single page and then you'll have like this American Scene in the background of like some city or something you know like theEagle something that represents the US or maybe a specific location whereas inGermany it's just the exact same every just one time.  It's this eagle with a coat of arms that you see.  And just a side note on visas is that I heard that the German passport is stronger than the US passport. Passport which is completely true. so asof May 2018 there are 188 countries that a German passport will be able to admit the German citizen into without a visa whereas I can only get into 166countries without a visa so that's a pretty significant difference. 22different countries if I'm doing math right. I call it math. My boyfriend reminds me that it counts when it's just a simple subtraction. somy passport actually has quite a few passport stamps I've been really fortunate to be able to do as much travel as I have both for work and just my normal life so it is quite quickly filling up and I know that I'm able to basically get additional pages for the passport without having to get an entirely new passport and that will make this thing like extremely thick.

You may have to think about doing that. I'm not sure if Germans have that option. I would assume so but I don't know so if you're German and you're reading this can you let me know what happens if you have to fill all the stamp space ... little space for visas in your passport.  oh, another thing I just remembered when I was looking at the little biometric symbol is that I was always flying intoFrankfurt Airport when I lived in Germany because I lived in the city mines which was only like 20 minutes away from the airport which was really lucky um and every time I would come back from traveling wherever I would get this huge snaking long line of people that are trying to get into Germany and they're waiting for their passport stamp from border security and I was always so jealous looking to my left and seeing all the EU citizens being able to just take their passport you know like I said it's biometric and have it scanned at these automatic machines and that's all they had to do to get admitted assuming there were no issues with their passports they didn't have to get them stamped or anything which is you know a pretty big benefit of being an EUcitizen is just having that more freedom of travel between EU countries.

alright guys! That's all I've got for you today. I hope that you enjoyed this article and if you did, give it a thumbs up! It helps me out so much. if you guys have any other things that I've missed regarding the differences between the two passports or more information about one or the other I was trying to keep it light and not so technical and boring I'm sure that there is so much more information out there especially about the history between the two documents I just find it interesting how different they are despite the fact that they're for the exact same purpose.thank you so much to all,