Passport Almost Full

[bangkoknights]

Hello everybody,

First of all best wishes for 2007 and that it may be a happy and healthy year for all of you.

I would like your comments in the following.

This week I will make a visatrip to Hanoi, Vietnam. I will try to get a Non Immigrant B multiple entry visa. It won't be the first time so I know I do qualify. Whether I get it is a second.

The thing that makes me a bit insecure is that I have only 4 empty pages left in my passport. For Vietnam I will need a visa so that will be one page. For my new Non-Immigrant B multiple entry visa it will be another one.

By the time I will ask for the visa I will have left only 3 empty pages and if I get it, there will be only 2 empty pages left. Normally I make my visaruns to Poi Pet so that means I will get a new passport this comming year.

My questions:

1. Is there any minimum number of pages left to acquire a Non-Immigrant B multiple entry visa?

2. If I do get my visa what will the consequences be if I get a new passport?

3. Is it considered rude if I tell immigration where I want my entrystamps? I wouldn't want the Vietnamese immigration to "waste" one of the 3 pages I have left.

Kind regards,

Bangkoknights

PS. Please don't tell me to get a new passport first, right now I really don't have the time to arrange that.

[Mai Krap]

Hello everybody,

First of all best wishes for 2007 and that it may be a happy and healthy year for all of you.

I would like your comments in the following.

This week I will make a visatrip to Hanoi, Vietnam. I will try to get a Non Immigrant B multiple entry visa. It won't be the first time so I know I do qualify. Whether I get it is a second.

The thing that makes me a bit insecure is that I have only 4 empty pages left in my passport. For Vietnam I will need a visa so that will be one page. For my new Non-Immigrant B multiple entry visa it will be another one.

By the time I will ask for the visa I will have left only 3 empty pages and if I get it, there will be only 2 empty pages left. Normally I make my visaruns to Poi Pet so that means I will get a new passport this comming year.

My questions:

1. Is there any minimum number of pages left to acquire a Non-Immigrant B multiple entry visa?

2. If I do get my visa what will the consequences be if I get a new passport?

3. Is it considered rude if I tell immigration where I want my entrystamps? I wouldn't want the Vietnamese immigration to "waste" one of the 3 pages I have left.

Kind regards,

Bangkoknights

PS. Please don't tell me to get a new passport first, right now I really don't have the time to arrange that.

If its an American Passport it takes five minutes in Bangkok at the Embassy. If its UK I believe you have to leave it there but Im not sure, I remeber a friend getting extra pages and waiting a couple days to get his passport back.

[bangkoknights]

If its an American Passport it takes five minutes in Bangkok at the Embassy. If its UK I believe you have to leave it there but Im not sure, I remeber a friend getting extra pages and waiting a couple days to get his passport back.

I am of dutch nationality and getting a new passport will take me at least a week. I simply don't have the time to do that right now.

[astral]

4 pages should be enough.

Usually they look at validity, minimum 6 months, not number of pages.

Get the visa first, then renew the passport. Immigration will transfer the entry stamp to the new passport.

You will probably need to carry both to show the visa in the old passport.