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Norwegian Tourist Held at Phuket Over Torn Passport

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1 hour ago, TheFishman1 said:

If the last page of his passport is totally blank and by accident it got torn out I’m not sure what the big deal is they could check their records to see if he was an overstay or once or something I think that to send them home right away seems kind of drastic they have computers to check to see if you ever came into the country TIT

The last page is frequently stamped with the number of the preceding passport. It could be viewed as an attempt to obscure critical information.

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  • WHansen
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    Hard to imagine how a page gets torn out unnoticed, but to give him the benefit of doubt, i guess a child could have got hold of his passport. Personally, don't inspect my passport before traveling. I

  • TheFishman1
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    If the last page of his passport is totally blank and by accident it got torn out I’m not sure what the big deal is they could check their records to see if he was an overstay or once or something I t

  • Lucky Bones
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    When you think of how many times we are required to hand over our passport as expats........ Must admit I have been complacent. All it takes is one bank person, IO (or like) to plonk their iced tea on

5 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Back to the OP, completely unreasonable of the Thai immigration to refuse entry for such a trivial problem

The point is, it is not "completely unreasonable" for an immigration officer, whose job it is to check the validity of passports, to reject an invalid passport! A torn out passport page is not trivial.

12 minutes ago, cjinchiangrai said:

The last page is frequently stamped with the number of the preceding passport. It could be viewed as an attempt to obscure critical information.

My last page is full of entry/exit stamps to Vietnam.

9 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

The point is, it is not "completely unreasonable" for an immigration officer, whose job it is to check the validity of passports, to reject an invalid passport! A torn out passport page is not trivial.

Pointless bureaucratic nit picking, nothing more.

Now he'll go back home and persuade 20 pals not to holiday in Thailand.

Paper Passports are a complete nonense in the modern world.

Just now, BritManToo said:

My last page is full of entry/exit stamps to Vietnam.

Mine has the previous visa number, however, both are examples of information that needs to be presented to immigration.

13 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

The point is, it is not "completely unreasonable" for an immigration officer, whose job it is to check the validity of passports, to reject an invalid passport! A torn out passport page is not trivial.

Just imagine the fun you could have ripping a page out of a passport from a fellow traveller that annoyed you, before you got off the flight.

10 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Yet when you get a physical 90-day reporting notification the immigration office does not staple it in your passport, it is provided as a sheet of paper for you to do with as you choose, is it not?

True but I tried the paper clip method and two things happened: 1) The form slipped and almost lost lit 2) The sharp end of the paper clip almost tore the passport page.

Just now, BritManToo said:
1 minute ago, Liverpool Lou said:

The point is, it is not "completely unreasonable" for an immigration officer, whose job it is to check the validity of passports, to reject an invalid passport! A torn out passport page is not trivial.

Pointless beaucratic nit picking, nothing more.

Now he'll go back home and persuade 20 pals not to holiday in Thailand

Being pulled up for a ripped-out page from a passport is not "bureaucratic nitpicking", to claim that is just being obtuse, nothing more.

"Now he'll go back home and persuade 20 pals not to holiday in Thailand".

Perhaps when he goes home he'll just persuade 20 of his pals not to rip pages out of their passport if they want to travel to anywhere.

2 minutes ago, sqwakvfr said:

True but I tried the paper clip method and two things happened: 1) The form slipped and almost lost lit 2) The sharp end of the paper clip almost tore the passport page.

Copies kept on a phone can't be accidentally lost nor cause any damage at all to the passport pages.

2 hours ago, TheFishman1 said:

If the last page of his passport is totally blank and by accident it got torn out I’m not sure what the big deal is they could check their records to see if he was an overstay or once or something I think that to send them home right away seems kind of drastic they have computers to check to see if you ever came into the country TIT

May have been banned somewhere else.

On 1/20/2026 at 8:59 AM, neeray said:

He would only be involved if there were 13 year old girls (and boys) there.

The last page ( 33/34 ) on my passport is blank/emergency contacts.

My previous passport details are on the first usable page ( page 6 ).

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36 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

An action that does not invalidate any passport.

I'm curious, what multiple pieces of paper has immigration been stapling into your passport in such quantities that it makes it a validity issue?

90 day report four times a year. Notification of address, and two receipts for extension and re-entry permit. All leaving holes or small tears when removed and replaced every year.

Also there was a post hear on AN very recently about some being warned about a tiny tear in a page in their passport.

I suppose it’s up to the inspecting IO at time of entry on what he considers enough damage to invalidate a passport.

10 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Copies kept on a phone can't be accidentally lost nor cause any damage at all to the passport pages.

Do that as well but was told at IMM at the next 90 day report "where is the form"? Best way might be to keep the actual 90 day report form in a seperate place and only bring it out at the nex 90 day report.

21 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Copies kept on a phone can't be accidentally lost nor cause any damage at all to the passport pages.

Why not have the entire passport on a phone app?

Then there's no chance of damaging the document.

In the modern world, having to carry bits of paper to show who you are is just silly.

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32 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Yet when you get a physical 90-day reporting notification the immigration office does not staple it in your passport, it is provided as a sheet of paper for you to do with as you choose, is it not?

Not at my IO. It has always been stapled into the passport. As was my most recent one a couple of weeks ago.

Bit weird as only the last page ripped out - don't know about other countries passport but the UK 1 is emergency contacts last page

Various possibilities of how ... or why. My first thought was to remember how stamps from some countries get you banned from entering an offended country. May or may not, of course, explain this missing page. Torn out to avoid problems entering some countries?

16 minutes ago, phil2407 said:

Bit weird as only the last page ripped out - don't know about other countries passport but the UK 1 is emergency contacts last page

2 sides to that page, wonder if anything on the other side ?

2 hours ago, TheFishman1 said:

If the last page of his passport is totally blank and by accident it got torn out I’m not sure what the big deal is they could check their records to see if he was an overstay or once or something I think that to send them home right away seems kind of drastic they have computers to check to see if you ever came into the country TIT

Yeah, let´s say the big deal is that almost all countries have rules about your passport, similar to Thailand. Amazingly, all of them have computers too.

1 hour ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Yet when you get a physical 90-day reporting notification the immigration office does not staple it in your passport, it is provided as a sheet of paper for you to do with as you choose, is it not?

This blanket statement is just incorrect.

It might be the case in your Immigration office.

It's not in mine.

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

Why not have the entire passport on a phone app?

Then there's no chance of damaging the document.

In the modern world, having to carry bits of paper to show who you are is just silly.

It would make it too easy to compromise the system.

People arrive and are caught with fraudulent passports all over the world.

That's why you need to be able to examine it.

It's good that Norse Atlantic has increased flights to BKK

13 minutes ago, Smokey and the Bandit said:

So obviously the airline that he flew in on, thought his passport was fine and they have to pay for his flight back?

More than likely it wasn't picked up, otherwise he would've had the same problem leaving.

If he didn't have a return ticket (unlikely), the airline would be responsible for his flight back.

2 hours ago, phetphet said:

And yet Thai Immigration still insist on stapling multiple pieces of paper in our passports.

There's an easy solution to that problem. Get a passport holder. Not only keeps the passport pristine but has space for 90-day slip, TM30, emergency contact data and anything else that you consider relevant. Mine even has my last TM6 from 2011. I haven't been out of Thailand since then.

46 minutes ago, doctormann said:

There's an easy solution to that problem. Get a passport holder. Not only keeps the passport pristine but has space for 90-day slip, TM30, emergency contact data and anything else that you consider relevant. Mine even has my last TM6 from 2011. I haven't been out of Thailand since then.

I have a passport holder and they still staple the 90 day reports to the back page. Now the back page has a hole in it from immigration stapling the living chit out of my passport. Wouldn't it be rich to be denied entry by the same people who inflicted the damage in the first place?

3 minutes ago, flaming dragon said:

I have a passport holder and they still staple the 90 day reports to the back page. Now the back page has a hole in it from immigration stapling the living chit out of my passport. Wouldn't it be rich to be denied entry by the same people who inflicted the damage in the first place?

If you do your 90-day reports online, which seems to work very well, the receipt will be emailed to you and you can print it off yourself and do with it what you will - assuming that you have a printer and an email account, of course.

6 hours ago, TheFishman1 said:

the last page of his passport is totally blank and by accident it got torn out I’m not sure what the big deal

You obviously don't travel often.

Can I ask, I'd like to know, you only travel between your country and Thailand?

4 hours ago, liddelljohn said:

i always carry at least 2 passports that is sensible sometimes when I worked I carried 3

Since you must leave a country with the same passport/entry stamp you used to get into the country it makes no difference how many passports you have if you lose the one you entered with!

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