slippery when wet Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 Hi All. I need to travel to Thailand at short notice and was looking at the pages in my passport. I have 4 empty pages, plenty enough room for the thai immigration at the airport passport control to stamp but upon exit last time some immigration officer placed a stamp on the last page. Will this now make my passport full and if I fly with this passport risk being refused entry at BKK International or am I worrying unecessarily? Thanks...Slippery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head Snake Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 (edited) Hi All.I need to travel to Thailand at short notice and was looking at the pages in my passport. I have 4 empty pages, plenty enough room for the thai immigration at the airport passport control to stamp but upon exit last time some immigration officer placed a stamp on the last page. Will this now make my passport full and if I fly with this passport risk being refused entry at BKK International or am I worrying unecessarily? Thanks...Slippery If you have problems getting in, tell them you plan to get additional pages from your Embassy while in Bangkok. Once you are at your hotel, see if the concierge has the form for the extra pages and see if they can run your passport to the embassy for same day service. The Conrad Hotel did that for me. I would think other hotels can. Regarding the last pages on the back of the passport. Typically those are for amendments. Odd they put a stamp there. I also think most countries look at the back page first to see if there is any notes. Edited February 2, 2006 by Head Snake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axel Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 Four empty pages is more than enough. The nice thing, the less space you have left, the better they squeeze their stamps on pages where there still is a little space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maestro Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 I have 4 empty pages... some immigration officer placed a stamp on the last page.Will this now make my passport full...? No, your passport won’t be considered full. You have absolutely nothing to worry about.My passport usually has some entry or exit stamp on the last page and it has never caused me any problem in Thailand or any other country. -------------- Maestro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astral Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 No problem. I have stamps at both ends of my passports. Islamic countries tend to start at the back as that is the way they read a book. The rest of the world starts at the front. The odd idiot stamps in a page in the middle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jai Dee Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 The odd idiot stamps in a page in the middle. Like Australian Immigration officials... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rinrada Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 Hi All.I need to travel to Thailand at short notice and was looking at the pages in my passport. I have 4 empty pages, plenty enough room for the thai immigration at the airport passport control to stamp but upon exit last time some immigration officer placed a stamp on the last page. Will this now make my passport full and if I fly with this passport risk being refused entry at BKK International or am I worrying unecessarily? Thanks...Slippery If its just an exit stamp then no problem (assume you aint been naughty) Re: answer about Embassy giving extra pages...depends where you are from I suppose but dont think UK/EU shops do it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klongmaster Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 OP: You have reason to be concerned about the stamp in the last page of your passport, because this makes it impossible to have the passport extended. For extra pages to be added the last page must be clean. Also, many countries have discontinued the practise of adding pages easy to check this if you look on the website of your country Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake7 Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 OP: You have reason to be concerned about the stamp in the last page of your passport, because this makes it impossible to have the passport extended.For extra pages to be added the last page must be clean. Also, many countries have discontinued the practise of adding pages easy to check this if you look on the website of your country yes, uk won't put extra pages in anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cm das Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 US consulates & emabassies will add extra pages, even with a stamp on the last page. At least they did for me in Chiang Mai a few months ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
britmaveric Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 No worries there seems to be no rhyme or reason where stamps are placed by immigration - one would hope it would be one after the other, but from my passport its random whatever page I feel like today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skylar Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 The British Consulates/Embassies "open up" the observations page for visas if you are stuck for space. Even if you may not be holding a Uk passport, it's still worth a shot at your own Embassy/Consulate if you really need it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raro Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 (edited) to me it looks like immigration officers always stamp where they find enough space to do so...sometimes in the middle of the passport. So I would not worry. had a nice experience in Hong Kong last time. The officer stamped on the first page (which is rather only half a page) and when I expressed my thanks he smiled and said something about stupid colleagues always wasting space...I somewhat agreed. Edited February 2, 2006 by raro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dan Sai Kid Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 to me it looks like immigration officers always stamp where they find enough space to do so...sometimes in the middle of the passport. So I would not worry.had a nice experience in Hong Kong last time. The officer stamped on the first page (which is rather only half a page) and when I expressed my thanks he smiled and said something about stupid colleagues always wasting space...I somewhat agreed. I have an empty page at the start of my passport and I always hand it over with the entrance card on that page in the vain hope they'll stamp it, they never do though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Mouse Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 The odd idiot stamps in a page in the middle. Like Australian Immigration officials... The only Aussie officials who do this are those stressed out officers who are drunk on duty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Croc Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 The odd idiot stamps in a page in the middle. Like Australian Immigration officials... The only Aussie officials who do this are those stressed out officers who are drunk on duty. The Australian Customs officers, who stamp passports for Immigration, at one time were instructed to stamp from the back in Oz P/Ps. These days they're likely to bang the stamp in anywhere it falls open. I have an empty page at the start of my passport and I always hand it over with the entrance card on that page in the vain hope they'll stamp it, they never do though... The empty page at the front is usually reserved for "Observations" and shouldn't have catchets stamped there. The Observations page traditionaly contains items such as children added, extensions granted, name changes and countries excluded for travel for that passport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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