Your Passport

i have two, which means no stamps

IE on the way in to EU countries: short line, no stamp
US on the way back: short line, no stamp

...except i do have a Sealand stamp in my US passport :D

it looks water-damaged (from sweat, i think), the picture is old as hell (high school, long hair, goatee), and there are no stamps even though i've been to switzerland and italy a couple of times each.

I wish more countries would stamp passports. Especially if they had interesting stamps. I've travelled quite a bit (though sadly not for a while as I've got lazy) but I only have two or three stamps in mine and they're all boring unremarkable immigration ones.

ireland has a nice big stamp

the best is when you get visas, tho

HURRAH!!!!!

You know how whatever it is you are looking for is always in the most *obvious* place possible?

I've been looking for my lost passport for SIX MONTHS.

Today while tipping out my handbag to take it and wash it, I opened the inner zipper pocket I never open coz all I ever keep in there is condoms and when was the last time *I* needed a condom - and THERE was my passport.

ha, always a great feeling to find something you thought long lost

I wish I could find my passport ;_;

Nice one. Do you have to halt a replacement process now, or were you holding out?

It's true. I remember once getting in a right state because I couldn't find my passport. I was on the phone to one of my brothers imploring him almost to the point of tears to turn the house upside down to find my passport because it HAD to be there. As it turns out, the jacket that hung on the bannister, next to which I was making the phone call, had my passport in its inner pocket.

Once I wasn't so lucky and couldn't find it at all, so ended up travelling to Italy on my brother's passport. No one batted an eyelid, even though my brothers are seven years younger than me, apart from the Italian passport control fella on the way back.

'Ees YOU?' he said increduously.

'Huh YEAH' I said, raising my eyebrows and rolling my eyes slightly to imply the great stupidity of anyone who could possibly suspect someone of travelling on a passport other than their own.

He waved me through.

£77 to renew this thing kmt kmt kmt

plus £8.17 "post office handling charge" KMFT

my passport just expired

my unexpired US visa is in the old passport, i think i now have to carry both old and new passport when i go to the states? paying £77 for that KMFFFTTTTT

to get a renewal u just need to send the old one in but i want to keep it but getting a new one from scratch is a pain in the ass waaa

i think they're meant to send the old one back. i've become v attached to the various stamps and visas in there, don't want a blank slate

#firstworldproblems

its tough

just sent away for a renewal last night, 80 quid for ten years isn't bad tbh

oh shit they do send the old one back phew!

Oh crap this reminds me I have to finish my application to renew my German one. It's this big dumb process and I need to get some original forms and some things notarized and it all has to be taken to the embassy in person. I have half of the stuff they need already submitted but I need to get the other half done now. At least this one will be good or 10 years. My old one was only good for 5 because I was under 25 when I got it or something weird like that.

im sure thatll come in handy

At this point it's mostly good for getting to use shorter customs lines when traveling but that's certainly something.

so weird how DL pictures usually suck, but I can't think of a bad pp picture I've seen.

u get to choose yr passport pic, where at the dmv they just take it w/a super sucky camera and youre stuck

i worked at photolab where we took passport pictures and people were always asking for reshoots

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.

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!

Pretty sure you have to get new pics, sorry

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.

£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

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