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Because countries have specific laws about what constitutes acceptable documents for entry into a country and the usually include things like “issued by a countries recognized and lawful issuer of passports”?

Most immigration decisions are negotiated and often reciprocal (you give me visa free travel, I’ll give you visa free travel).

Unless a document is specifically recognized as issues from a non-state entity (e.g. UN refugee passports) they aren’t valid travel documents anywhere.



Like you say yourself it is possible that non-state entities can have their travel documents recognized in some cases. I don't see any reason why that non-state entity couldn't potentially be a US non-profit. Obviously in this particular case, this agency's documents are not widely recognized, but that has nothing to do with their legal status in the US.


The non-state entities that get recognized are usually quasi-states -- Palestine, Taiwan, etc.

To recognize a random non-profit based in the capital of a superpower that does not recognize such a thing would be... pretty novel.


Other than the historic lineage how different would it be to say SMOM? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_...




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