Pretty sure you can no longer add pages to a passport. I had one of those passports for work and had one, maybe two, sets of additional pages. Now if you need more, you have to apply for a new passport.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do you even need pages anymore? Most countries don't stamp, no?

All of my recent travel to Europe has involved stamping my passport.

Do you want the stamps? As memories? Some people do. But, if not, you can ask them not to stamp.

I read stamping was going to stop maybe next year? I assume at some point the book will go away too.

Anonymous wrote:Why do you even need pages anymore? Most countries don't stamp, no?

All of my recent travel to Europe has involved stamping my passport.

Anonymous wrote:When ordering, you can request the larger (50-page) version for free. It's an option on the form. I travel a lot for work so I always need that. For the rest of the family, we just get the standard edition.

Getting pages added to a passport is annoying, and there's a limit of 2 additions per passport. I know from experience.

I don’t believe they’ll add pages any more - if you run out, you have to renew.

I decided to get a passport card when I renewed. Just in case the Trump ICE and other forces stop me and demand to see my papers.
Hint: I’m not blond and blue-eyed!

My husband has 32 and I have 50. I just upgraded and he will at renewal. They probably were moving too quickly and gifted your husband extra pages.

We love Anguilla and get a number of stamps coming in and out via the non stop flight from Dulles to St Maarten, so for us we want additional pages.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do you even need pages anymore? Most countries don't stamp, no?

It’s been a couple of years since I traveled, but if you request a stamp, they do. Has that changed? -op

Yes. So just don't ask for one, and then you don't have to worry about extra pages. {Now, I've only traveled to Europe, South America, and the Caribbean... maybe they automatically stamp in other places.}

Anonymous wrote:Why do you even need pages anymore? Most countries don't stamp, no?

Every country I've been to lately stamps, with the exception of the EU if you can use the automated gates, which aren't fully installed yet. I travel a lot. I just checked and 30 pages of my passport are filled. First, there's paper visas -- needed for China and Russia among the large countries, and those two usually only give out single-entry visas so you need a new one for each trip, so there goes an entire page each time. Then some countries have either huge passport stamps that take up half the page (India, Oman, Brazil) or they put an arrival sticker in that's big (Japan in particular). With Turkey, they have a sort of big square stamp for departure and this big triangle stamp for arrival, and they stamp them next to each other, so there goes half a page each time you go to Turkey.

I wish they would stamp less. Two passports ago, I had 2 books of additional pages added in, and they informed me that's it. After that, I'd need a new passport as a next step. It wasn't physically possible to add in any more pages. A few of my friends who travel a lot get 2 passports for this reason, or because their passport will sit a while at an embassy waiting on a visa, meanwhile they need to travel elsewhere.

Anonymous wrote:Why do you even need pages anymore? Most countries don't stamp, no?

It’s been a couple of years since I traveled, but if you request a stamp, they do. Has that changed? -op

You’d be surprised. They do. Just sent in my passport for renewal and 38 of the big book pages has been stamped!

Why do you even need pages anymore? Most countries don't stamp, no?

When ordering, you can request the larger (50-page) version for free. It's an option on the form. I travel a lot for work so I always need that. For the rest of the family, we just get the standard edition.

Getting pages added to a passport is annoying, and there's a limit of 2 additions per passport. I know from experience.

Our family just received our new passports. We all ordered the same books but my husband received 50 pages but we only got 26. Google tells me that 32 pages are standard. So now I am curious, how many pages does your passport have and how long ago was yours issued?