i worked at photolab where we took passport pictures and people were always asking for reshoots
― lag∞n, Saturday, 24 March 2012 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
The one I took for this one was horrible. I thought I looked like a serial killer but then the lady at the embassy said something about how it was a great picture and I should be in hollywood and I couldn't tell if she was mocking me or not. I felt like The Griswolds in European Vacation when the French concierge makes fun of all their pictures.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Saturday, 24 March 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
Mine recently expired. I suppose I have to get a new picture? It says I can renew through the mail and my old passport picture is accurate enough!
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Bulgarian Tourist Chamber (Mount Cleaners), Friday, 13 April 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty sure you have to get new pics, sorry
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 April 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
general rule of thumb: whatever option costs money is the option that Immigration will recommend
Recently renewed my passport. The previous one contained stamps from just one trip to Ireland in 2000.
The passport before that one expired after a single use in 1981. On that trip I flew to London as the cheapest possible way to cross the ocean, after which I took a bus from London to Athens. This meant I got to cross a lot of borders and so it contained many stamps from countries I 'visited' for a few hours en route.
― Aimless, Friday, 13 April 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
£77 to renew this thing kmt kmt kmt
before i did the conversion i was boggling at how inexpensive a uk passport is
but otm
― Masonic Butt (Lamp), Friday, 13 April 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
heh last summer I got pages added to my passport. did it about three weeks after a new policy was implemented that charged $77 USD for the privilege. before that, it was free. fuckers
― swaghand (dayo), Friday, 13 April 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
Renewing an expired passport / renewing a valid passport = costs exactly the same. which seems really assholeish to me. Immigration are jerks and I hate them always.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 April 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
Immigration are jerks and I hate them always.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, April 13, 2012 4:32 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
*KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!*
― pplains, Friday, 13 April 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
;_;
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 April 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
whatever option costs money is the option that Immigration will recommend
sex change
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Friday, 13 April 2012 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
they would if they could make you pay them for the operation
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 April 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
While I'm at it, I might look at dual citizenship too, costs not much more than a passport.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Bulgarian Tourist Chamber (Mount Cleaners), Friday, 13 April 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
really love going through my passport for the stamps in it, to remember all those trips. which is why i do not want to hand it over once it expires/runs out of empty pages. is that smth you can do?
― Jibe, Saturday, 14 April 2012 05:19 (twelve years ago) link
Ask to keep the old passport and they'd prb do sth like stamp 'void' on the picture page and/or cut the corners off the other pages.
― salsa shark, Saturday, 14 April 2012 11:24 (twelve years ago) link
'or cut the corners off the other pages'
― salsa shark, Saturday, 14 April 2012 11:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/04/cia-spies-biometric-tech/
― beachville, Saturday, 14 April 2012 11:34 (twelve years ago) link
right they clip a corner off the cover, here in canadai get the 48 page passport now which makes me feel worldly and special butit's just really easy to rack up stamps going in and out of places
just walking across the border from shenzhen to hk and back = chinese exit stamp + hk U CAN STAY FOR 90 DAYS stamp + hk entry stamp + hk departed + china entry some of the worst moments of my life have been losing my passport in foreign states---- i never actually LOSE it, i just can't find it. last time i lost it in korea somehow, with zero money in my pocket, just a plane ticket. i tore through the home of the girl i was staying with several dozen times, then did this inch by inch search, sweating profusely, heart racing. funny storrrry. suddenly a vague memory came to me of giving it to the girl to look after or something and i sort of asked her casually, "hey have you seen my passport???"
my passport is always weathered and looks slightly waterdamaged from soaking in lapsweat in a front pocket.
also i like standing in airport customs lineups or whatever and checking out passports.
― dylannn, Saturday, 14 April 2012 11:37 (twelve years ago) link
thanks to seeing this thread a few days ago, i remembered to renew my passport!
they just clipped the upper corner off and let me keep the old one. it's too bad its time has come to an end - i had a pretty gnarly stamp collection going (for someone who doesn't travel for work):Thailand Cambodia Thailand PeruArgentinaUruguayArgentinaAmsterdamTunisiaEgypt (this one is super nice looking with a little silver reflective sticker)IstanbulMunichVienna
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
My passport is mainly full of US entry stamps, US Visas and holes where the uncivilised thugs staple I-94s in place.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
currently renewing mine, using this pic from a wedding 'photo booth'
http://i.imgur.com/XIVqR.jpg
sup h8rs
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
classic passport facial expression
mine will never be revealed itt
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
ooh btw I learned about travelling with dual passports on the fly
totally got confused by the whole, use my Australian pp to enter/leave, use my american pp to enter. Customs/Border/Immigration ppl at the airports were v helpful in this regard, which surprised me bc their office-bound counterparts are the exact opposite of helpful
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
you mean use the aussie passport to enter and leave australia, right?and the US passport to enter the US, right?
makes sense. shorter lines, no time limit on your stay.
― mr. jane goodall (toandos), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
sup icey
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/923/2004pp.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
xpost - exactly! it makes total sense when you say it out loud but for some reason this was a v difficult concept for my tiny brain to grasp
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 01:25 (eleven years ago) link
rip 2002
http://i.imgur.com/KO8mp.jpg
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
why is this so stressful?
― Lamp, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
because everything to do with Immigration is always stressful, imo
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
I am dealing with country A -> use country A passport if you have it. I am so silly about travel. If I had two passports, they'd be labeled or buried in a pouch labeled by country
― mh, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 02:52 (eleven years ago) link
Luckily they are labelled by country on their front cover :)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 02:53 (eleven years ago) link
some are blue, some are maroon, maybe there are other colors
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 02:54 (eleven years ago) link
feel like green could also be a passport color
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 02:56 (eleven years ago) link
I would like a red passport
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 03:00 (eleven years ago) link
http://repeatingislands.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/passport.jpg?w=500
― toandos, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 03:01 (eleven years ago) link
the real question is why did i wait so long to renew my passport
― Lamp, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 03:34 (eleven years ago) link
everyone waits so long to renew their passport. you are not alone <3
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 03:47 (eleven years ago) link
this is probably true. otoh i have left this about as long as i could before i made it impossible to actually go on the trip that i have booked. despite the fact that i work about ten minutes from the consulate and have had a completed application sitting in my desk drawer for like a month oh well baring any extraordinary circumstances i should have my emergency passport tomorrow
it is annoying that it takes so gd long to get a non-emergency passport my bf got his in like two weeks w/o any rush stupid canadians
― Lamp, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
having it is the main thing, don't beat yourself up too much
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 04:25 (eleven years ago) link
trip-wise, where are you going?
Just got a new UK passport, I rather like the pastoral scenes and weather symbols. Very practical temperature conversion scale in the gutter margin as well.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 9 August 2012 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
I had my UK first adult passport interview today, quite odd. It felt like a mix between a conversation with someone who finds you inexplicably interesting and psychoanalysis. (Maybe that's also what psychoanalysis feels like.) Is this new? Whenever I mention it to people they're surprised that it's a thing.
― the kind of man who best draws girls' eyeballs (Merdeyeux), Friday, 26 April 2013 19:58 (ten years ago) link
Argh. I have to renew my (Canadian) passport. Apparently, they'll let me back in with an expired one, but getting back into the Land of the Free™ will be a challenge. It'll be my first time renewing it whilst outside of Canada. Anyone have experience with this?
― c21m50nh3x460n, Friday, 26 April 2013 20:30 (ten years ago) link
Idk how hard canada is, but renewing my nz passport while in the US was way easier than expected (except I wanted to change it to my married name but that was gonna make it 10x harder).
― just1n3, Saturday, 27 April 2013 02:12 (ten years ago) link
Well, the biggest issue for me is if I can still claim my place in Canada as being my place of residence. Think I'll give the Canadian consulate a ring.
― c21m50nh3x460n, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:25 (ten years ago) link