ripping a page out of a passport?
Mar 10th 2004, 10:48 am
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Re: ripping a page out of a passport?
<[email protected]> wrote
| Is it okay to rip one of those customed stamped pages out of a
| passport?
No
| I took a trip to Finland four years ago and the paged
| that got stamped by customs is starting to fall out....so I was
| wondering if I could just rip it out to make my passport neat?
No
| Or do I have to keep in it, as a offical record of all my travels?
If it's tatty return it to the passport office enclosing a request for a new
one and the appropriate fee.
(This is from a British perspective; you don't say which country issued your
passport.)
Owain
| Is it okay to rip one of those customed stamped pages out of a
| passport?
No
| I took a trip to Finland four years ago and the paged
| that got stamped by customs is starting to fall out....so I was
| wondering if I could just rip it out to make my passport neat?
No
| Or do I have to keep in it, as a offical record of all my travels?
If it's tatty return it to the passport office enclosing a request for a new
one and the appropriate fee.
(This is from a British perspective; you don't say which country issued your
passport.)
Owain
Mar 10th 2004, 2:50 pm
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Re: ripping a page out of a passport?
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 08:55:29 -0000, "howard" <[email protected]> wrote:
>"Miguel Cruz" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Is it okay to rip one of those customed stamped pages out of a passport?
>> > I took a trip to Finland four years ago and the paged that got stamped
>> > by customs is starting to fall out....so I was wondering if I could just
>> > rip it out to make my passport neat? Or do I have to keep in it, as a
>> > offical record of all my travels?
>> You absolutely cannot remove it. If you do, some countries will not allow
>> you to enter, on the presumption that the page you removed had a
>deportation
>> stamp.
>Or worse, it might show you've visited Cuba , Libya , N.Korea , either
>of which make you evil!
Only if they axis you.(groan)
>"Miguel Cruz" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Is it okay to rip one of those customed stamped pages out of a passport?
>> > I took a trip to Finland four years ago and the paged that got stamped
>> > by customs is starting to fall out....so I was wondering if I could just
>> > rip it out to make my passport neat? Or do I have to keep in it, as a
>> > offical record of all my travels?
>> You absolutely cannot remove it. If you do, some countries will not allow
>> you to enter, on the presumption that the page you removed had a
>deportation
>> stamp.
>Or worse, it might show you've visited Cuba , Libya , N.Korea , either
>of which make you evil!
Only if they axis you.(groan)
Mar 13th 2004, 6:54 am
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Re: ripping a page out of a passport?
Steltzjr <[email protected]> wrote:
> << Every immigration officer in the world will wonder what you are trying to
> hide if you do this. >>
>
> I agree that you should not tear a page out of the passport but I also
> wonder what immigration officer (talking about the USA and Europe)
> would ever notice. I've not had one ever leaf through the passport
> looking for a missing page.
I had a US immigration officer flip through all my (Canadian) passport
pages at the Vancouver airport before boarding a plane for Seattle.
It also happened when I was riding a bicycle across the border from
Canada to USA.
K.
> << Every immigration officer in the world will wonder what you are trying to
> hide if you do this. >>
>
> I agree that you should not tear a page out of the passport but I also
> wonder what immigration officer (talking about the USA and Europe)
> would ever notice. I've not had one ever leaf through the passport
> looking for a missing page.
I had a US immigration officer flip through all my (Canadian) passport
pages at the Vancouver airport before boarding a plane for Seattle.
It also happened when I was riding a bicycle across the border from
Canada to USA.
K.
Mar 13th 2004, 7:57 pm
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Re: ripping a page out of a passport?
[email protected] (Steltzjr) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> << Every immigration officer in the world will wonder what you are trying to
> hide if you do this. >>
>
> I agree that you should not tear a page out of the passport but I also wonder
> what immigration officer (talking about the USA and Europe) would ever notice.
> I've not had one ever leaf through the passport looking for a missing page.
At LHR, and even tho I was in transit and didn't go thru immigration
at AMS, a KLM agent went through it thoroughly, as well as Thailand,
and *each and every time* I have re-entered the US the immigration
officer flips through all the pages of my US passport (at least in the
past 5 years, I can not remember before that).
Only place that just waived me through was GVA.
> << Every immigration officer in the world will wonder what you are trying to
> hide if you do this. >>
>
> I agree that you should not tear a page out of the passport but I also wonder
> what immigration officer (talking about the USA and Europe) would ever notice.
> I've not had one ever leaf through the passport looking for a missing page.
At LHR, and even tho I was in transit and didn't go thru immigration
at AMS, a KLM agent went through it thoroughly, as well as Thailand,
and *each and every time* I have re-entered the US the immigration
officer flips through all the pages of my US passport (at least in the
past 5 years, I can not remember before that).
Only place that just waived me through was GVA.
Mar 14th 2004, 8:38 pm
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Re: ripping a page out of a passport?
<< > I agree that you should not tear a page out of the passport but I also
wonder what immigration officer (talking about the USA and Europe) would ever
notice.
I've not had one ever leaf through the passport looking for a missing page.
At LHR, and even tho I was in transit and didn't go thru immigration at AMS, a
KLM agent went through it thoroughly, as well as Thailand, and *each and every
time* I have re-entered the US the immigration
officer flips through all the pages of my US passport (at least in the past 5
years, I can not remember before that).
Only place that just waived me through was GVA.
>>
Like I said, I wouldn't tear a page out of the passport - for someone MAY look
through it. But in our case - seniors and evidently innocent looking - we've
just never had passport control (on our return to the USA from Europe) look
through our passports counting pages.
They turn the pages only until they come to a blank spot so they can stamp it.
They then close the book and hand it back.
wonder what immigration officer (talking about the USA and Europe) would ever
notice.
I've not had one ever leaf through the passport looking for a missing page.
At LHR, and even tho I was in transit and didn't go thru immigration at AMS, a
KLM agent went through it thoroughly, as well as Thailand, and *each and every
time* I have re-entered the US the immigration
officer flips through all the pages of my US passport (at least in the past 5
years, I can not remember before that).
Only place that just waived me through was GVA.
>>
Like I said, I wouldn't tear a page out of the passport - for someone MAY look
through it. But in our case - seniors and evidently innocent looking - we've
just never had passport control (on our return to the USA from Europe) look
through our passports counting pages.
They turn the pages only until they come to a blank spot so they can stamp it.
They then close the book and hand it back.
Mar 15th 2004, 1:37 pm
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Re: ripping a page out of a passport?
[email protected] (Steltzjr) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> << > I agree that you should not tear a page out of the passport but I also
> wonder what immigration officer (talking about the USA and Europe) would ever
> notice.
> I've not had one ever leaf through the passport looking for a missing page.
>
> At LHR, and even tho I was in transit and didn't go thru immigration at AMS, a
> KLM agent went through it thoroughly, as well as Thailand, and *each and every
> time* I have re-entered the US the immigration
> officer flips through all the pages of my US passport (at least in the past 5
> years, I can not remember before that).
>
> Only place that just waived me through was GVA.
> >>
>
> Like I said, I wouldn't tear a page out of the passport - for someone MAY look
> through it. But in our case - seniors and evidently innocent looking - we've
> just never had passport control (on our return to the USA from Europe) look
> through our passports counting pages.
> They turn the pages only until they come to a blank spot so they can stamp it.
> They then close the book and hand it back.
heh. Mine doesn't get stamped upon return to the US anymore - at least
not the past 3 times (since Oct 03). I don't bother to ask what
they're looking for, but they do thumb through it all....usually that
brings on questions of where I've been. SO I'd guess that's why they
look at it.
> << > I agree that you should not tear a page out of the passport but I also
> wonder what immigration officer (talking about the USA and Europe) would ever
> notice.
> I've not had one ever leaf through the passport looking for a missing page.
>
> At LHR, and even tho I was in transit and didn't go thru immigration at AMS, a
> KLM agent went through it thoroughly, as well as Thailand, and *each and every
> time* I have re-entered the US the immigration
> officer flips through all the pages of my US passport (at least in the past 5
> years, I can not remember before that).
>
> Only place that just waived me through was GVA.
> >>
>
> Like I said, I wouldn't tear a page out of the passport - for someone MAY look
> through it. But in our case - seniors and evidently innocent looking - we've
> just never had passport control (on our return to the USA from Europe) look
> through our passports counting pages.
> They turn the pages only until they come to a blank spot so they can stamp it.
> They then close the book and hand it back.
heh. Mine doesn't get stamped upon return to the US anymore - at least
not the past 3 times (since Oct 03). I don't bother to ask what
they're looking for, but they do thumb through it all....usually that
brings on questions of where I've been. SO I'd guess that's why they
look at it.
