Passport control emoji meaning

The passport control emoji depicts a security officer examining a passport. It symbolizes activities related to travel, document checks, and border security. People often use this emoji in conversations about traveling, going through airport procedures, or talking about customs and immigration. It serves as a handy way to represent the process of verifying identity and documents when crossing international borders.

The passport control emoji was approved in Unicode 6.0 and added in Emoji 1.0, see related proposal L2/09114