Editing Nansen passport (section)

{{Short description|Travel documents for stateless persons}}
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{{Infobox Identity document
| document_name       = Nansen passport
| image               = No-nb bldsa 6e001.jpg
| image_caption       = The front cover of a Nansen passport (green stripe), written in French, the diplomatic language
| date_first_issued   = 1922
| using_jurisdiction  = [[League of Nations]]
| valid_jurisdictions = 
| document_type       = Passport
| purpose             = Identification
| eligibility         = [[Stateless person|Stateless]] [[refugees]]
| expiration          = 1938
}}
'''Nansen passports''', originally and officially '''stateless persons passports''', were internationally recognized [[refugee travel document]]s from 1922 to 1938, first issued by the [[League of Nations]]'s Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees to [[stateless person|stateless]] [[refugees]].<ref>[http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nansen-passport-refugees "The Little-Known Passport That Protected 450,000 Refugees"] Atlas Obscura. Retrieved October 10, 2017</ref> They quickly became known as "Nansen passports" for their promoter, the Norwegian statesman and polar explorer [[Fridtjof Nansen]].