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Q: Skipping pages in your passport.

I received my passport back this morning only to discover that they skipped pages 2 and 3 of my new passport. They put the visa on page 4. I checked my old passport and noted that they simply skip an entire page and then stick the visa in. I asked a friend of mine and he said that they put the visa on page 28 in his passport. Every time his passport was checked, he was told that he does not have a valid visa and he would politely have to tell them to keep checking. I asked about this when collecting my passport and got the usual response of "mei win ti". My response was obviously that they should do their job better. What's your take on the matter and have you had a similar experience?

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In my new passport, the first visa was placed on page 5, and then entrance and exit stamps covered pages 6 & 7. My second visa then went on page 20 (this one is for 10 years), so stamps start on 21, and continue on 22, 23 and 24.
In all honestly, I could not care less, when they reach the last page, they will have pages 1 to 5, and 8 to 19 to play with. Everytime I have asked why leave blank pages, their response was that stamps should be next to visa.
So, if that makes them happy, as long as I get the proper stamps for entering or exiting, I really do not care where they do it.

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In my new passport, the first visa was placed on page 5, and then entrance and exit stamps covered pages 6 & 7. My second visa then went on page 20 (this one is for 10 years), so stamps start on 21, and continue on 22, 23 and 24.
In all honestly, I could not care less, when they reach the last page, they will have pages 1 to 5, and 8 to 19 to play with. Everytime I have asked why leave blank pages, their response was that stamps should be next to visa.
So, if that makes them happy, as long as I get the proper stamps for entering or exiting, I really do not care where they do it.

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Pages of passport are numbered, so no. of pages cannot be changed!

Page number in the passport isn't dedicated 'function ... ... number' like in the book.

 

What is wrong with you? What does it make any difference (to you) on what page lays first or ninth stamp? Are you in Primary School?

 

It never happened cops in any country would say ''you don't have the visa in your passport ..'' unless they checked all pages and visa stamp wasn't there.

In other words, cops go through the passport till they don't find visa stamp! They also check your travelling habits .... You should travel more! he he.

'add-it' to "My response was ...":

Once copper returns the passport to you and lets you enter the country, your only response can be:

"Thank you very much! Have a great day! Bye-bye!''

Don't tell me you did/would coach cop at the border's entry on anything after she/he lets you pass and especially not on how she/he should do her/his job!

Your whole thread never happened ...!

icnif77:

Swiss Town Denies Passport To Dutch Vegan For Being "Too Annoying"

    Tanja Suter, the president of the local Swiss People’s Party, claimed Ms Holten has a “big mouth” and that residents did not want to grant her citizenship “if she annoys us and doesn’t respect our traditions."

     

    That's Schengen zone policy .... You can get denied entry, i.e. passport's issue&citizenship 'cause you are too annoying ...

    Dutch citizen Nancy Holten's kids were born in Switzerland, buTT... residents of Swiss city voted against passport grant to her ...

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    Cos pasting it in the first available page might give the impression that they give a shit!

     

    They don't.

     

    It would also be logical.

     

    They're not.

    icnif77:

    Can you, please explain why it would be logical to hit page 1 with first stamp? 

    I must reveal to you that I will be able to measure your IQ according to your A!

     

    You must have free page for the new stamp! That's the only 'logic' you must know as a traveller!

     

    Cop will look through your entire passport to see your traveling habits, i.e. several stamps from Pakistan and India would indicate you might be an alpinist or drug smuggler ... and similar. Also timing of stamps is revealing about one's habits.

    Cop won't look only at first two pages to see your stamps! 

    Cops don't see passport as academics do! Passport isn't a book, so you must start working on it from the first page.

     

    Only reason pages in passport are numbered is 'content/no. of pages cannot be changed!'. Do you get any hint of logic at this statement?

    What a STIPUD thread!

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    If all visas and stamps were done in order, then there wouldn't be a need to scroll through the whole book!

     

    Which, if one were regularly travelling to the same places, would become instantly obvious, rather than flicking back and forth between pages (especially with a 64-page passport book)!!

     

    Now, THAT would be logical!

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    Just wait for 'BIOMETRICS'.   They'll plant a little Microchip in your medulla oblongata, then scan your head like the nurse does when you have your temperature read. mail

      

     'voila!, no more pages ~

    icnif77:

    You already have 'biometrics' 'planted' ... not in medulla, but into your hands, while you're holding your smart-est-device.

    And, after you retire your phone into your pocket, chip is still emitting unless you disconnect phone's battery. 

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    My new passport has a microchip in it I guess so the passport cant be altered since all the info in on this chip. But to your point im sure thats coming soon in the next 10 to 20 years.

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    I don't think it matters, I renewed my passport last year, it has 34 usable pages, the first time i used it they put the stamp on page 28 lol. I guess it doesn't matter what order its in as long as its there.

    Monkey1:

    You are right. It does not matter which page they put it on. The problem however does arise when I have to show my passport every time the I fill up with gas and every time I go through the gates at the airport. Its a little time consuming when the person handling my passport has to go through the pages in order to find the correct visa, Even though I prefer to tell the person which page the visa is on, they tend to sometimes go to the incorrect page and tell me that my visa has expired or they tell me that the visa for Singapore (which is canceled) is not accepted in China.

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