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It seems that slowly more and more countries are giving up on the stamp passport thing. They have you in the computer, so what's the point right? I guess it can be useful for local police, but in terms of immigration where everything is computerized seems like a relic waste of resources. Half the stamps in our passport we can barely read anyway, I only know what country they are from what is near them in chrono order.
Some no-stamp we've experienced:
Hong Kong
Macau
El Salvador (they stamped us in at airport, but not out overland)
Costa Rica (also stamped in but not out)
Albania
Are there many others? I wonder if in twnety more years we'll look at countries who actually put ink to paper as ridiculous.
NEXUS travelers (Canada and US) don't even go through the regular immigration lines, just do everything on a machine with the eye scan, stick your passport into the machine, get your piece of paper, and go.
NEXUS travelers (Canada and US) don't even go through the regular immigration lines, just do everything on a machine with the eye scan, stick your passport into the machine, get your piece of paper, and go.
Regular travelers entering USA who are US citizens just use kiosks with slip of paper as well, I haven't actually waited in a line be processed by a human in a booth at immigration USA in several years.
See that magnetic barcode on your passport?
Yup stamps are a thing of the past. Good thing to as I actually had to get pages added to my passport at one stage (a pain to do), before I learned to buy the expanded page version when the prior one expired. Visa's are what gets me - some fill an entire page.
Visa's are what gets me - some fill an entire page.
Yep. I've got two full page China visas, one Myanmar, one Vietnam, two Thailand, one Laos, one Cambodia, one Kaza (Zambia+Zimbabwe), I don't recall if India and Sri Lanka were full page or most of a page, etc.
Yep. I've got two full page China visas, one Myanmar, one Vietnam, two Thailand, one Laos, one Cambodia, one Kaza (Zambia+Zimbabwe), I don't recall if India and Sri Lanka were full page or most of a page, etc.
That chews up your pages really fast.
India business visa is a full page including picture, Nepal is only half a page but then they have a departure sticker that takes another half (just from the way they place it). Cambodia is a full page - that's actually a cool visa with a silver like emblem on it. I have two Chinese visas in my passport. Whew they are giving 10 year business visas now otherwise I would probably have up to ten visas for each year, thus ten pages used up.
Looks like India is going electronic for visas now. I am doing an Indian "e-visa" as we speak for a trip out there in a couple months, no more sending it out my passport to the consular office and hopefully no page taken for the visa sticker.
Regular travelers entering USA who are US citizens just use kiosks with slip of paper as well, I haven't actually waited in a line be processed by a human in a booth at immigration USA in several years.
I am a US citizen travelling regularly overseas and get my passport stamped every time by US immigration officer in Houston. My last passport was completely full of stamps and I had to apply for new before it actually expired.
I am a US citizen travelling regularly overseas and get my passport stamped every time by US immigration officer in Houston. My last passport was completely full of stamps and I had to apply for new before it actually expired.
Why would you do that? Like I said, you can have them add pages and then next time order a passport with an expanded number of pages...
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