World Service Authority

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The World Service Authority (WSA), founded in 1953 by Garry Davis,{{cite web |url= http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2006/03/whats_a_world_passport.1.html |title= What's a World Passport? |access-date= 10 June 2015 |last= Engber |first= Daniel |date= 24 March 2006 |magazine= Slate}} is a non-profit organization that claims to educate about and promote "world citizenship", "world law", and world government. It is best known for selling unofficial fantasy{{Cite web |title=International Civil Aviation TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP ON MACHINE READABLE TRAVEL DOCUMENTS, TAG-MRTD/16, WP/5, 13/9/05, section 2.1.1 |url=https://www.icao.int/Meetings/TAG-MRTD/Documents/Tag-Mrtd-16/TagMrtd16_005_en.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171110114415/https://www.icao.int/Meetings/TAG-MRTD/Documents/Tag-Mrtd-16/TagMrtd16_005_en.pdf |archive-date=2017-11-10 |access-date=2017-11-09}}{{Cite web |title=International Civil Aviation Organization Regional Seminar on MRTDs, Biometrics and Border Security, 27-29 November 2012, p30 |url=https://www.icao.int/Meetings/mrtd-Zimbabwe2012/Documents/2-11-Esteves_Portugal-forensic.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171110114417/https://www.icao.int/Meetings/mrtd-Zimbabwe2012/Documents/2-11-Esteves_Portugal-forensic.pdf |archive-date=10 November 2017 |access-date=9 November 2017}} documents such as World Passports.

Organization

The WSA has an office in Washington, D.C., the United States. The office in Shanghai, China, was closed on 1 January 2010. {{As of|2017}}, attorney David M. Gallup was the president of the WSA.{{cite web|url=http://www.7dvt.com/2001/passport-fame |title="Passport To Fame", 7 Days Vermont, 28 March 2001 |publisher=7dvt.com |access-date=1 October 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.martindale.com/David-M-Gallup/380116-lawyer.htm |title=Martindale.com, David M. Gallup |publisher=Martindale.com |date=10 August 2010 |access-date=8 November 2017}}

History

The WSA was founded by Garry Davis, a former Broadway actor and World War II bomber pilot, who officially gave up his U.S. citizenship in 1948 to live as a "citizen of the world". It was set up to be the administrative agency of the "World Government of World Citizens" which he declared on 4 September 1953.{{cite web|url=http://worldservice.org/gov.html |title=What is the World Government of World Citizens? |publisher=Worldservice.org |access-date=1 October 2013}} The first office was opened in New York City in 1954. In the past, WSA also had offices in Basel, London and Tokyo.{{cite web | url = http://www.worldservice.org/posipapr.html | title = POSITION PAPER 1978 - U.N. vs. World Government | publisher=Worldservice.org }}{{cite web|url=http://www.worldservice.org/blog/2003/09/50th-anniversary-of-world-citizen.html|title=World Citizen Update: 50th Anniversary of the World Citizen Government |publisher = worldservice.org}}

Activities

Besides selling World Passports,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/29/us/garry-davis-man-of-no-nation-dies-at-91.html|title=Garry Davis, Man of No Nation Who Saw One World of No War, Dies at 91|last=Fox|first=Margalit|date=28 July 2013|work=The New York Times|access-date=5 April 2017|issn=0362-4331}} the WSA registers customers as "world citizens" and sells "world citizen" identity documents, such as fantasy birth certificates, identity cards, marriage certificates, political asylum cards, "International Exit Visas" and "International Residence Permits".{{cite web|url=http://worldservice.org/doc.html |title=World Government Documents (Personal) |publisher=Worldservice.org |access-date=1 October 2013}} The organization's legal department is responsible to assist holders of its documents.{{cite web | url = http://worldservice.org/wsaljudc.html | title = World Judicial Commission |publisher=Worldservice.org }} The organization also promotes programs, such as "Mundialization" – declaring cities and towns as "world territories"; "World Syntegrity Project" – an attempt to create a World Constitution through meetings of citizens; and other programs.{{cite web | url = http://worldservice.org/programs.html?s=2 | title = World Government Programs | publisher=Worldservice.org }}

The WSA is also involved in a project to establish a World Court of Human Rights.{{cite web|url=http://www.worldcourtofhumanrights.net/home|title=World Court of Human Rights Development Project|website=www.worldcourtofhumanrights.net}} The WSA has also allegedly sold World Government Postal Stamps,{{cite web|url=http://worldservice.org/cat.html?s=4#stamps |title=World Service Authority catalog |publisher=Worldservice.org |access-date=1 October 2013}} which, according to Garry Davis, helped to convey thousands of letters between China and Taiwan in the early 1980s.{{cite web|url=http://www.onefilms.com/garry-davis-herald-tribune-quixotic-quest-article.php|title=International Herald Tribune|date=5 December 2001|publisher=Onefilms.com|access-date=1 October 2013|archive-date=13 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171113060106/http://www.onefilms.com/garry-davis-herald-tribune-quixotic-quest-article.php|url-status=dead}}

Countries that World Service Authority claims have accepted the World Passport

The World Service Authority claims that 189 countries have accepted the World Passport, by stamping a national visa and/or entry/exit stamp.{{cite web |title=International Acceptance of W.S.A. Passport |url=https://worldservice.org/visas.html |access-date=19 September 2023 |publisher=Worldservice.org}} The World Service Authority requests that travelers send photocopies or scans of visa/entry/exit stamps to the Washington, DC office.

The World Service Authority also claims legal recognition of their documents by Burkina Faso, Ecuador, Mauritania, Tanzania and Zambia.