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I’m unsure if the OP was referring strictly to U.S. passports, or any passport.
I have a valid U.K. passport, issued in 2012, the only U.S. stamps in it, are an entry stamp in Tampa FL in 2014, and another entry in 2015 at Atlanta GA, one in NYC, and one in D.C., both in 2016, plus an entry and exit stamp from South Africa in 2013.
I have an expired passport, that contains my multiple entry U.S. visa, the visa expires in September this year.
In this passport, I have an expired entry visa for South Africa, and another for Australia, I have Australian entry and exit stamps, South African, many U.S. entry stamps, and a Canadian stamp, and a Turkish entry/exit.
Prior to U.K. entering the E.U., if you were driving across Europe, you’d be stopped and stamped at every border, e.g., as a trucker in the mid seventies, taking goods from U.K. to Warsaw, Poland, I’d get an entry stamp at Zeebrugge, Belgium, after driving off the ferry, another when I entered Holland, again at West Germany, super complications and grilling at the East German border to get another, plus a transit visa, meaning you must leave East Germany driving the same vehicle, with the same plate, that you entered with, then another stamp, with a lot less hassle, at Frankfurt-an-der Oder, to enter Poland, couple of days later, I’d get it all again going home.
Bosnia and Herzegovina. They don't even scan the passport entering via land from Croatia.
Lots of EU countries don't check passports when crossing borders by land. I just took a day trip from Switzerland to Germany and back, forgot to bring my passport, and nobody ever asked for it.
If you want the stamp, ask for it. No one has ever said no to me when I've done that.
I always request the old passport to be sent back to me. They make few small holes in it, and send back with the new passport
They don't do that any more. I just got my new passport, and my old passport was returned a few days later. I fully expected it to be punched by holes but it was pristine.
I think that the new (chipped) e-passports have rendered all old passports obsolete.
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