Your Passport

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

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.

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!*

;_;

whatever option costs money is the option that Immigration will recommend

sex change

they would if they could make you pay them for the operation

While I'm at it, I might look at dual citizenship too, costs not much more than a passport.

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?

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.

'or cut the corners off the other pages'

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/04/cia-spies-biometric-tech/

right they clip a corner off the cover, here in canada
i get the 48 page passport now which makes me feel worldly and special but
it'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.

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
Peru
Argentina
Uruguay
Argentina
Amsterdam
Tunisia
Egypt (this one is super nice looking with a little silver reflective sticker)
Istanbul
Munich
Vienna

My passport is mainly full of US entry stamps, US Visas and holes where the uncivilised thugs staple I-94s in place.

currently renewing mine, using this pic from a wedding 'photo booth'

http://i.imgur.com/XIVqR.jpg

sup h8rs

classic passport facial expression

mine will never be revealed itt

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

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.

sup icey

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/923/2004pp.jpg

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

rip 2002

http://i.imgur.com/KO8mp.jpg

why is this so stressful?

because everything to do with Immigration is always stressful, imo

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

Luckily they are labelled by country on their front cover :)

some are blue, some are maroon, maybe there are other colors

feel like green could also be a passport color

I would like a red passport

http://repeatingislands.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/passport.jpg?w=500

the real question is why did i wait so long to renew my passport

everyone waits so long to renew their passport. you are not alone <3

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

having it is the main thing, don't beat yourself up too much

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.

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.

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?

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).

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.