Law No. 11 on Travel Documents of 16 February 1989.

PIP: This Ecuador Law sets forth general rules on travel documents and, in particular, passports. It provides that a passport permits its holder to leave and travel outside national territory, but does not confer nationality on its holder. All Ecuador citizens have a right to obtain a passport and any passport can cover the spouse and minor children of its holder. Passports are of 4 kinds: diplomatic, official, special, and ordinary; the 1st 3 categories are provided to various government officials. Other travel documents include 1) safe conduct passes to return to the country for citizens of Ecuador who are poor or confronting exceptional circumstances, and 2) special travel documents for refugees who are legally in the country. Decree No. 641 of 19 May 1989 (Registro Oficial, No. 198, 25 May 1989, pp. 2-6) sets forth the Regulations to the Law on Travel Documents. It contains provisions on procedures for obtaining such documents and rules on the loss of such documents.^ieng