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Q: travel trouble trust me.. them stamps in your passport can be important

40  years on the road       and can hardly ever read  them stupid stamps they put on your page....."til now  ... illegible  double stamped   ...   one over another....  my suggestion, be sure you can see and read the damn thing before walking away.

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Great advice. I got caught in a torrential downpour back in the states and my passport got wet even though I had it inside my backpack. Some of the entry/exit stamps ran and became blurred. This almost prevented me from getting a residence permit. I also get flak from immigration officers everytime I try to leave the country. I keep my passport in a ziplock bag now.

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Good advice, he's right.

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Great advice. I got caught in a torrential downpour back in the states and my passport got wet even though I had it inside my backpack. Some of the entry/exit stamps ran and became blurred. This almost prevented me from getting a residence permit. I also get flak from immigration officers everytime I try to leave the country. I keep my passport in a ziplock bag now.

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Also the stamps are important if you've been using the e-channel, since they won't accept your last entry stamp in China if you have stamps from other countries.  

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Yeah, how antiquated is that little paper book with those ink-stamps?   haha,,, feel like I'm in the Casablanca movie.  imo this stuff should have gone e-data by now. I been looking my passport the past few days (changing jobs) and if you can read them damn ink-stamps, well, you have better eyesight than I do!

C'mon countries of the world, join the Modern Age!

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The world is working on it. My hunch is paper passports will be phased out one of these days. The alternative, of course, is far scarier: facial recognition technology, fingerprinting, DNA cotton swabs, unique body odor sensors, etc. The first two on the list are already implemented. Soon, if not already, every government, every governmental department, every bank, every insurance company in the world will have access to every iota of our "private" data, down to how many times we go to the toilet daily. It is scary and I'm not trying to be funny. Just sayin'.

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