― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 16 September 2002 13:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 September 2002 14:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 16 September 2002 14:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anna (Anna), Monday, 16 September 2002 14:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 16 September 2002 14:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
The photo is 13 years old, it's from when I was a goth. I had long black hair, purple eyeshadow and a nosering in it. It gets lots of funny looks as I'm going through airports.
My green card is much cooler. It's not green, it's white, and it's got secret computer chip coding stuff on the back of it. An interesting fact about my green card: the shirt I am wearing in my photo is exactly the same shirt from the cover to 13 tales from urban bohemia. Oooh, isn't that exciting?
― kate, Monday, 16 September 2002 15:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
The USA stamp is the crappiest. The Japanese one is the most ornate.
― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 16 September 2002 15:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mandee, Monday, 16 September 2002 15:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 16 September 2002 17:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
still waiting for effing poland to get accepted into the EU.
― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 16 September 2002 18:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― chris (chris), Monday, 16 September 2002 18:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Monday, 16 September 2002 19:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
(goes to check)
yes, it is my photocard. I do look like a thug in my passport, though. I could pass for an Eastern European spy, if it weren't for the visible upside-down Belle and Sebastian badge on my lapel. However, it's better than before, in which I had a purple tie-dyed shirt, lank, unwashed chin-length hair and a slightly obscene pout.
I only have the USA. I used to have Canada and the USSR, which are cooler. Sigh.
― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 09:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
I agree, N., the one in my passport only has the words "Admitted: Houston" and the date in library-stylee datestamp format. The Canadian one is better coz it at least says Canada and has a maple leaf. It's odd how the EU passport makes a big deal of the "this passport contains x numbered pages" malarkey in all the different languages, but the customs officials blatantly disregard what's there already and stamp on whatever page they want.
When I applied for a passport I gave my birthplace as 'Edmonton, London', but wished I'd just said 'London' as the passport came back with just 'Edmonton', giving many ppl the impression that I was born in Canada. This was because I remember being told how my father had given his birthplace as 'London' for my birth certificate and was told this was insufficiently detailed. He replied, quite reasonably, "I can't remember it was a long time ago."
As my picture, it was the first one I had done in the newer, posher (or so it seemd in 1996) PhotoMe booths where you get the chance to choose which pic to actually use. It's mnonochrome and I look v. sombre, perhaps in response to hearing that yr not supposed to smile. I look very dark around the eyes, but maybe not enough to make me look like a Goth.
― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 09:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― chris (chris), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 09:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
I have lots of stamps, let's count - USA (23), Australia (3), NZ (1), South Africa (1), Japan (3), Singapore (2), Estonia (Nooooo-oooo!!). I seem to have a valid Australian visa too.
Most of these stamps date from 1997-2000, when I travelled lots with work. I hated the job more than I could say, but I discovered some great record shops!
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 09:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― toraneko (toraneko), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 12:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 12:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 19:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 20:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 23:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
Can't we do anything right??
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 01:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― chris (chris), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 08:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 08:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 08:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 08:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
kind of red, not too well-used, with -- yep -- an embarrassing photo. still, not long before i can change it.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 11:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Mine has: a couple of pages of full page Australian residents visas, which are kinda cool, the horrible US Visa Waiver stamp (and associated shitty bit of paper stapled in), an awesome full page full colour Indian visa, and two or three apparently indestructible Virgin Atlantic hand luggage stickers on the back. Good times.
― caek, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 11:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Very boring, nothing apart from US visa waiver stamps. A bit battered by use.
― Ed, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 11:45 (sixteen years ago) link
an awesome full page full colour Indian visa
I have a few of those. Personal visa of pride: Myanmar. Not out of love for regime or anything, just not a lot of people have them. Oh dear, that's not something good at all :(
― kv_nol, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 11:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Not much in it. Two older passports were more interesting but:
1. Lost the first one in New York
2. Boiled the other one to smithereens in a washing machine in Portugal, trying to do a wash while still drunk from the night before
― Tom D., Tuesday, 18 September 2007 11:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I've just got my third passport. Wow that makes me feel old. Haven't used it yet, it remains pristine for the time being. Happily to change in January. The other two have lots of stamps in them though.
― gem, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 11:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Pretty new-ish with the electronic chip in it which means only lining up for two minutes in Melbourne compared to oh, fucking hours in LA. Not much except for US and New Zealand stamps. My old one was better with some cool EU stamps.
― King Boy Pato, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 11:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Mine is coming to the end of its life.
From the front:
Green Virgin security dot (cover) stray staple from somewhere Japan customs sheet (stapled) Japan Malaysia Hong Kong US A2 (expired) and shitload of A2 stamps another staple Sri Lanka Barbados Thailand Samui some Thai handwriting for about half a page yet another staple Goa Big Full Page India Visa US A2 (valid) and a shitload of A2 stamps just one more staple Cambodia Big Full Page Cambodia Visa Canada Jordan (including a laminated postage stamp and giant CONTACT POLICE STATION WITHIN 14 DAYS stamp) Pile of Virgin security stickers
― aldo, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 11:59 (sixteen years ago) link
business or pleasure?
― RJG, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 12:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Both. Thanks for asking.
― aldo, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 12:01 (sixteen years ago) link
a pleasure doing business
― RJG, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 12:03 (sixteen years ago) link
The only stamps I have are from Barbados.
I was promised an Albanian one but it didn't materialise. Fucking bastards.
― *rumpie*, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 12:19 (sixteen years ago) link
some stamps from US and Ukraine
― Ste, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 13:13 (sixteen years ago) link
UK 2x, Holland, Canada on the latest.
Lost one in Glasgow years ago and it was confirmed by US immigration on the last trip that I will be asked for the circumstances of that loss and my mother's maiden name for THE REST OF MY LIFE whenever I re-enter the US.
― the higgs, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 05:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Mine only has exit and entry stamps for the UK and is about to expire, which means I went almost 10 years ago now blimey. Only OS trip Ive done :( I'll get to the US some day soon.
― Trayce, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 09:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I accidentally left my passport in my pant when I came back from Amsterdam and it went through the washer and dryer. It's pretty rumpled up, the front cover is trying to pull away from the photo page. Would a customs agent accept my explanation that it went through the laundry, or would they suspect me of trying to fuck with it? Should I get another before I travel out of the country again?
― Rock Hardy, Friday, 22 February 2008 01:40 (sixteen years ago) link
yes they'd most likely accept your explanation. yes you should get another
(this has happened to friends and customs let it slide but made it *very* clear that they needed to get a new one asap)
― jergïns, Friday, 22 February 2008 01:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I had put off renewing mine and then heard all the tales of woe about how long it was taking. I finally sent it off with the hope I'd have it back sometime in April so we could go to Canada in May, and it came back in about 2 weeks.
Rock, if you had one of the newer rfid ones, the chip would be destroyed by the washer + heat, so they'd want you to get a replacement.
― Jaq, Friday, 22 February 2008 02:05 (sixteen years ago) link
My photo looks something like Glenn Campbell's mugshot. Plus I walked around with it on rainy and humid days, without any proper protection, and the photo has since become dotted with inkspots.
It's never gone through the wash, but it still looks ragged enough that it would probably behoove me to get a new one before my next encounter with an especially conscientious customs agent.
― dell, Friday, 22 February 2008 02:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't think this has a chip. It's a year from expiring anyway, might as well get a new one.
― Rock Hardy, Friday, 22 February 2008 02:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I take modest comfort though in knowing that I'm not the only one sporting a less-than pristine specimen.
― dell, Friday, 22 February 2008 02:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Until the day comes when I ultimately embark upon my future career as hash-smuggler, it's not a particularly huge concern of mine.
― dell, Friday, 22 February 2008 02:20 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― gbx, Friday, 22 February 2008 02:36 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Jordan, Friday, 22 February 2008 03:04 (sixteen years ago) link
general rule of thumb: whatever option costs money is the option that Immigration will recommend
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 April 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
classic passport facial expression
mine will never be revealed itt
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:07 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
sup icey
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/923/2004pp.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 00:57 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
rip 2002
http://i.imgur.com/KO8mp.jpg
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
why is this so stressful?
― Lamp, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
because everything to do with Immigration is always stressful, imo
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 02:28 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
Luckily they are labelled by country on their front cover :)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 02:53 (twelve years ago) link
some are blue, some are maroon, maybe there are other colors
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
feel like green could also be a passport color
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 02:56 (twelve years ago) link
I would like a red passport
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 03:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://repeatingislands.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/passport.jpg?w=500
― toandos, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
the real question is why did i wait so long to renew my passport
― Lamp, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 03:34 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link