Stamps in passport

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We've been to several countries in the past 5 years, but no stamps...

France
Great Britain
Portugal
Bahamas
Costa Rica
Germany
Canada

I didn't think they stamped anymore. Just a look and go.

Both France and UK have stamped mine. Bahamas has stamped my husband’s. Countries still stamp.

I think it depends how busy they are. If you travel in the EU (even on a flight) they don't stamp. So I have one stamp for my entire EU trip (Spain), but no other country stamps.

Nothing for Canada or Mexico, but you can use your passport card for those.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We've been to several countries in the past 5 years, but no stamps...

France
Great Britain
Portugal
Bahamas
Costa Rica
Germany
Canada

I didn't think they stamped anymore. Just a look and go.

Both France and UK have stamped mine. Bahamas has stamped my husband’s. Countries still stamp.

I think it depends how busy they are. If you travel in the EU (even on a flight) they don't stamp. So I have one stamp for my entire EU trip (Spain), but no other country stamps.

Nothing for Canada or Mexico, but you can use your passport card for those.

For many flights in the EU there are no border controls.

It’s not about being busy or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We've been to several countries in the past 5 years, but no stamps...

France
Great Britain
Portugal
Bahamas
Costa Rica
Germany
Canada

I didn't think they stamped anymore. Just a look and go.

Both France and UK have stamped mine. Bahamas has stamped my husband’s. Countries still stamp.

I think it depends how busy they are. If you travel in the EU (even on a flight) they don't stamp. So I have one stamp for my entire EU trip (Spain), but no other country stamps.

Nothing for Canada or Mexico, but you can use your passport card for those.

Most of the EU is the Shengen area so you only get stamped when you enter and leave it, whatever country that is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We've been to several countries in the past 5 years, but no stamps...

France
Great Britain
Portugal
Bahamas
Costa Rica
Germany
Canada

I didn't think they stamped anymore. Just a look and go.

Both France and UK have stamped mine. Bahamas has stamped my husband’s. Countries still stamp.

Not if you go through electronic gates. The machine scans your passport, the camera scans your face and the automatic door lets you in. No stamps. Agents often do the same process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We've been to several countries in the past 5 years, but no stamps...

France
Great Britain
Portugal
Bahamas
Costa Rica
Germany
Canada

I didn't think they stamped anymore. Just a look and go.

Both France and UK have stamped mine. Bahamas has stamped my husband’s. Countries still stamp.

Not if you go through electronic gates. The machine scans your passport, the camera scans your face and the automatic door lets you in. No stamps. Agents often do the same process.

Never said they stamp everyone. But they still stamp. BTW just entered France two weeks ago: they scanned my face AND stamped my passport.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I filled my last passport and had to get a new one. When I renewed I got the fat passport (which I don’t think they issue anymore?) and I have 8 sides left before I fill this next one up. Do I win?

Same here. I get the fat version on renewal. Currrently 23 pages filled out of 44, so easily over 100 stamps and a couple of visas too including Russia and China.

Last passport (also fat one), I had to ask them to stamp on pages that already had stamps to keep enough full unused pages for visas. They rquire 2 full blank pages to get a visa even though visas are only one page.

Had to get an exception one year when it was a US gov't shutdown so I couldn't get State to add in more pages. I had one full page and a bunch of half-pages left.

Wow, a perpetual tourist!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We've been to several countries in the past 5 years, but no stamps...

France
Great Britain
Portugal
Bahamas
Costa Rica
Germany
Canada

I didn't think they stamped anymore. Just a look and go.

Both France and UK have stamped mine. Bahamas has stamped my husband’s. Countries still stamp.

Not if you go through electronic gates. The machine scans your passport, the camera scans your face and the automatic door lets you in. No stamps. Agents often do the same process.

Never said they stamp everyone. But they still stamp. BTW just entered France two weeks ago: they scanned my face AND stamped my passport.

They didn't stamp mine four weeks ago. It depends on what passport you have I guess. The US is phasing out stamping the passports of foreigners entering the US too.

I imagine if you go to a country that doesn't have a digitized system or if you have a passport that requires you to get visas to certain countries, you will get more stamps. If you come from a visa waiver country, you may receive fewer stamps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We've been to several countries in the past 5 years, but no stamps...

France
Great Britain
Portugal
Bahamas
Costa Rica
Germany
Canada

I didn't think they stamped anymore. Just a look and go.

Both France and UK have stamped mine. Bahamas has stamped my husband’s. Countries still stamp.

I think they'll stamp if you ask them to do so. Otherwise, they mostly just send you on through.

[Anonymous]

I hate to break it to some of the absolutists in this thread, but guess what! Bureaucrats are fabulously inconsistent. One guy may power trip on manually stamping every damn passport on his shift (even with those nifty face scanners), and someone else on a different shift might consider the manual stamp too heavy a lift. And it won’t matter if your passport is US, UK, EU, Neptune, it’s got to do with one dude’s mood on his shift.

Please stop debating this. It’s not that hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't even remember the last time my passport actually got stamped. It seems like it doesn't happen anymore.

Lol u don’t travel much do u

DP. But you’re the idiot here. You’re like one of these clowns complaining about the gross pop up ads. In other words: Stop telling on yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I filled my last passport and had to get a new one. When I renewed I got the fat passport (which I don’t think they issue anymore?) and I have 8 sides left before I fill this next one up. Do I win?

Same here. I get the fat version on renewal. Currrently 23 pages filled out of 44, so easily over 100 stamps and a couple of visas too including Russia and China.

Last passport (also fat one), I had to ask them to stamp on pages that already had stamps to keep enough full unused pages for visas. They rquire 2 full blank pages to get a visa even though visas are only one page.

Had to get an exception one year when it was a US gov't shutdown so I couldn't get State to add in more pages. I had one full page and a bunch of half-pages left.

Who’s gonna play you in the movie?

[Anonymous]

No one is saying how many years of validity the passport has.

[Anonymous]

One 😕

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't even remember the last time my passport actually got stamped. It seems like it doesn't happen anymore.

Lol u don’t travel much do u

DP. But you’re the idiot here. You’re like one of these clowns complaining about the gross pop up ads. In other words: Stop telling on yourself.

Wtf r you even talking about. Countries stamp. Vietnam, Thailand, Hong Kong, Brazil, Philippines all stamp. If all you’re doing is flying to London and Puerto Rico every 2 years, you’re not getting a fu&King stamp. Some of us travel more than you do, moron.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't even remember the last time my passport actually got stamped. It seems like it doesn't happen anymore.

Lol u don’t travel much do u

DP. But you’re the idiot here. You’re like one of these clowns complaining about the gross pop up ads. In other words: Stop telling on yourself.

Wtf r you even talking about. Countries stamp. Vietnam, Thailand, Hong Kong, Brazil, Philippines all stamp. If all you’re doing is flying to London and Puerto Rico every 2 years, you’re not getting a fu&King stamp. Some of us travel more than you do, moron.

Puerto Rico?!