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In April 2025 Uruguay redesigned its passport, merging the nationality and citizenship fields under one code, URY, and quietly dropping the holder's place of birth. The reform was meant to end a decades-old anomaly that left naturalized "legal citizens" with passports some countries treated as invalid. Instead it sparked an international incident: France, Germany and Japan began rejecting the new document precisely because the birthplace field was missing. By August 2025 Montevideo had reversed course and reinstated the field. Few passports have been re-engineered, rejected at three borders, and rolled back within a single year, a vivid reminder of how a single data field can ground a traveler.

• Passport rejected Uruguay's 2025 redesigned passport, which omitted the place-of-birth field, was rejected at borders in France, Germany and Japan, forcing the government to reinstate the field months later.
• Citizenship quirk Uruguay constitutionally separates "natural citizens" (nationals by birth or descent) from "legal citizens" (naturalized foreigners), and because visa rules track nationality not citizenship, roughly 16,000 legal citizens long held passports some nations wouldn't honor.
• Biometric leap Uruguay only began issuing ICAO-compliant biometric e-passports on 16 October 2015, a switch that doubled passport validity from five years to ten.
• Passport power On the 2025 Henley Passport Index the Uruguayan passport ranked 23rd worldwide, with visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 157 destinations, and in 2025 Uruguayans were newly added to China's visa-free list.
• Currency Today's peso uruguayo is worth one million of the country's mid-century pesos, the product of two brutal 1,000-to-1 redenominations in 1975 and 1993 that wiped six zeros off the money.
• Banknotes Uruguay's banknotes honor cultural figures rather than only generals, putting poet Juana de Ibarbourou on the 1,000-peso note and composer Eduardo Fabini on the 100.
• First women voters In the tiny town of Cerro Chato on 3 July 1927, Uruguayan women cast the first female votes in South America's history, years before suffrage was nationwide.
• World record Uruguay's national anthem is the world's longest, running about 105 bars and nearly five minutes to sing in full, set to music inspired by the operas of Rossini.
• Pioneer state Under President Jose Batlle y Ordonez, Uruguay became one of the world's first welfare states, legalizing divorce in 1907 and granting women the right to demand it on their own by 1913.