Passport stamps

eDicky

Keeping wrote: »

Can I just request they don't stamp it or what? Do they stamp it if you go to the States?

Where a stamp is required, to indicate that you entered legally and to show how long you stayed on departure, you cannot avoid being stamped. Such as USA. Go anywhere in Europe to party and you won't get a stamp.

Roger1

phatbear wrote: »

eDicky should have said "will have it stamped on entry to non EU and EEA countries, so Norway, Lichtenstein and Iceland, and as an added bonus Switzerland, which is neither EU or EEA.

Well, eDicky didn't and would have been wrong, like you.

EU passports, including UK, are not normally stamped on arrival in Switzerland or Liechtenstein. AFAIK the same applies to Norway and Iceland.

If arriving from a Schengen country, passports are not even normally checked on arrival in most EEA+ countries (EU, EEA, Switzerland). The UK and Ireland are exceptions.

Ballard

dawyldthing wrote: »

I didn't get it stamped in Oz or New Zealand. used to like getting the stamps too

I got an entry stamp for NZ but no exit and nothing in Australia or HK last year. Like you I like to get stamps so was a little peeved (although not terribly so).

The last time I heard, Israel don't stamp passports as they know that some countries won't allow entry to someone with an Israeli stamp. I think that they stamp a piece of paper that you return when you leave. They do change this rule from time to time so it mightn't be valid any longer.

GlasweJen

Ballard wrote: »

I got an entry stamp for NZ but no exit and nothing in Australia or HK last year. Like you I like to get stamps so was a little peeved (although not terribly so).

The last time I heard, Israel don't stamp passports as they know that some countries won't allow entry to someone with an Israeli stamp. I think that they stamp a piece of paper that you return when you leave. They do change this rule from time to time so it mightn't be valid any longer.

I remember visiting Israel on a temporary passport. We had been to Egypt before and needed these passports as Israel wouldn't accept a passport with an Egyptian stamp.

PompeyPete

Keeping wrote: »

So are passport stamps mandatory or not? Is it random? I'm planning to go on holiday with a few lads but don't want my passport to get stamped otherwise my mrs we know I've been partying it up lol.

Some people rip the page out to hide the fact.:eek:

PompeyPete

GlasweJen wrote: »

I remember visiting Israel on a temporary passport. We had been to Egypt before and needed these passports as Israel wouldn't accept a passport with an Egyptian stamp.

Other way round I think, and as Ballard suggests in #14.

We went on a cruise that visited Alexandria and Port Said in Egypt, and then Ashdod in Israel.

Just Checked my passport, the Egypt stamps appear loud and clear.

But when we visited Ashdod all passengers had to attend a face-to-face in the ship's theatre with Israeli Immigration, and we were given a paper insert instead of our passports being stamped. My wife was expecting a problem with her passport as it was issued at the British Embassy in Riyadh [Saudi Arabia]. The Immig Officer noticed [as she would], and had a word with a colleague, but cleared it.

A few years ago, when I worked in Saudi Arabia, I had to get my new boss, his family, and all their effects through all the hoops required to get him overland from Haifa to Riyadh. Nightmare.

Moto2

I used to work in that part of the world as an engineer for a satellite comms company with a forward operating base in Cyprus.
It was far easier to keep a separate 'Israel' passport in the Cyprus office than to try and get into places like Libya with an Israeli stamp on it and vice versa

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Roger1 wrote: »

The UK and Ireland are exceptions.

The UK is not an exception, because we are not a signatory to the Schengen Convention.

silvercar

Israel no longer stamps passports or issues paper inserts. They do give you a small computer generated slip with a bar code, but that is just used to open the automatic gates situated a few feet past the passport desks.

Roger1

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

The UK is not an exception, because we are not a signatory to the Schengen Convention.

If you read my post, you will see that I did not say what you seem to be implying.