5 Passport Mistakes That Will DENY You from Boarding the Plane
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- Are you unknowingly making these mistakes with your passport that could cause major headaches at the airport? In this video I cover 5 things to make sure your passport is valid & works.
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I was at Stockholm Airport and was detained because I had a temporary passport as mine had been stolen on train in Germany. It took several Airline Employees and much anxiety on my part before they realized it was valid. My daughter was freaking out because she didn’t want to leave me in Sweden. Keep hold of passport at all times and if something feels off DO Not let anyone touch it!
Insist on a stamp when leaving any country. I was detained in France for over staying a work visa. I didn’t overstay, just forgot to get a stamp when I last left.
For those of you who haven't traveled internationally in a while, you might want to know that getting a passport stamp when going through passport control is becoming a thing of the past, so running out of blank pages should not be an issue anymore. Many countries are installing electronic passport gates, where you simply scan and go.
Yes for their citizen or like in the EU for the citizen of the EU, in the EU you can not use till now of date the automated gates if you not have an EU passport.
But some times those gates are not reading the pasdport and than you have to go to the box of the border controle.
It happens to me in Frankfurt many times.
Yeah, my current passport is 8 years old & I don't think I even have one stamp on it. They always check it electronically. My previous passport only had about 3 or 4 actual stamps.
In the 70's I had to have additional pages inserted into my passport because I had so many entry and exit stamps and back then most visas took up an entire page. Today its hard to find a country that still stamps.
@craigbjork7786 Lucky you! I lost one of my almost-filled passports and it broke my heart.
The Dominican Republic still does stamping! I like filling my passport pahes
An acquaintance got a new passport before a cruise vacation. Everything looked OK, so she put it in the safe until it was needed. The day before the trip, as she gathered her documents and tickets, she saw that the passport had her down as a male and she had not noticed previously. There was nothing she could do correct the error in the less than one day before she was due to start her cruise, so she hoped that it would not be noticed and it wasn't. 😅
Many countries don't have a gender marker on passports, so it's not commonly checked. Plus, those that do often let you write whatever you want there. Australia is an exception that I know about - it has a gender field, and you need to prove it if it's not the same as that recorded in their systems. But honestly, as a holder of a passport that does not have a gender field, I don't see why all countries don't do it this way - the gender of a traveller is irrelevant because it's not something you can use to identify someone on the spot (assuming the gender is different than what's apparent from the photo).
I was detained at Amsterdam Schiphol for extensive questioning 20 years ago because a security agent insisted that my novelty passport from the Dorason train station in the Korean DMZ was a stamp from North Korea. During the conversation, I was able to give a remedial geography lesson and convince her superiors that I had never entered North Korea.
@@Michael-iw3ek And many are still there. Like it or not.
@@Michael-iw3ekwhen you come back from anywhere, you have to declare the countries you’ve been.
Why on earth would entering north korea be an issue
Very informative and, as someone who has traveled to over 80 countries in my career, spot on. I would add a sixth - Make sure you sign your passport in the appropriate place in ink and your signature matches your name as it appears on the passport. I personally witnessed a US citizen denied entry into the UK because his passport wasn't signed. They wouldn't just let him sign it there. In the end he may have been allowed into the country, but I would guess it was a hassle that he didn't need after a long flight.
I had a brand new passport when I went to Germany for a trade show many years ago. When I arrived in Munich, the extremely polite immigration agent asked me how long I would be in the country. When I said one week, he suggested that I would have plenty of time to sign my passport before my next flight. He was so deadpan, I thought I was in trouble, but then he smiled and said something like, "Have a nice visit in Germany."
The Swedish police (issuing passports) won’t let you walk away with an us-signed passport. You are given a pen and have to sign the passport when picking it up in front of the policeman handing out passports.
Wait your passports aren't officially stamped with your signature that you give the agent when applying for it?
My country ingrains the signature on the bio page so no worry's about forgetting to sign passport.
I didn’t know about the souvenir stamps, I have one from Antarctica and a couple other places. Hope no one notices. Like your videos - thanks.
I have the one from Port Lochroy in Antarctica and Ushuaia as well.
Thanks for the useful advice!
Good information. I definitely learned something.
The last couple of flights I took to another country, no one stamped my passport. I thought it wasn't a thing anymore.
I got a souvenir stamp for East Germany in 2007, never had any issue with it.
About passport validity after your travel dates, I learned that two weeks before I was due to leave for Rome and my passport was going to expire two months after my trip. No good. I had to get a new one in a hurry.
I heard someone else at the passport office say that where she was going, her passport needed to be good for a year after her travels.
Thanks for the reminders in your video, A.
Passport went through the laundry one week before travelling to Ireland. Wife went through first, spent 5 minutes chatting with the agent, then my turn. Took one look at my freshly laundered passport and just went off on me, saying no way he could let me in the country with my mashed document. Noticed me looking towards the wife, turned to her and asked "Are you travelling with this man?" Wife gives a sweet smile and replied "I never met the man". Agent saw the look on my face, and could barely stop laughing long enough to wave me through. Keep the passport in a safe place weeks, if not months before you go, unless you're travelling with my smart aleck wife. Thanks for the tips Aly.
Very informative video!
I just got a new passport however until a year ago i was an international flight attendant and i asked some hard to get into countries for a souvinier stamp. Yet i am glad i saw ur video.
Very good information 👍
You got me with the Art Vandelay
🤭😊
Thank you for the info.
Art Vandelay - nice touch.
Good to know this.
With the first 1: there’s a place in the Florida keys known as the conch republic. They offer a passport for it. You could get that and get the souvenir stamps in that.
Im good to go Aly thanks
Was that a Seinfeld Easter egg, Ms. Vandalay? Nice video!
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Nice reference to “Art Vandelay” in your video! 😂
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I wish I would have found you a month ago. Got married last October and we booked our honeymoon prior in my maiden name. I had my passport done after the wedding in my married name and I had to pay $200 at the airport for name change to match my passport. I was soooo bummed as that kind of ruined the initial excitement of our honeymoon, but it was better than being denied.
One can also request a passport book with about twice as many pages when getting either the first one or renewing it, at no extra charge.
You forgot to mention one thing: at the check-in, they sometimes stick the baggage tag on the back cover of your passport (instead of the boarding pass) and when removing it, the glue leaves some marks there and in some cases also damages the cover. So you have a damaged passport and it's not your fault. Has anybody have problems because of that?
I always ask the agent to give me the baggage claim stickers before s/he has the opportunity to attach them to either the passport or the boarding pass, which is much more common. I also take a picture of the stickers with my camera phone (as well as taking pics of my checked bags at home before going to the airport).
That could create a sticky situation 😂 but I don't think it's a real issue if the ID part of your passport is in good shape.
I have heard of people being denied due to this occasionally. Ultimately it's your passport your responsibility if it's damaged
I have never seen a baggage sticker stuck to a passport. I have seen the small stickers that indicate you have gone through with the internal airport security screening put on the back of a passport,
@@johnschmit998 Agents - more than one - have done that to mine. Or the boarding pass, which is harder to peel off. I ask them to hand them to me and I stick them back-to-back and put them in my wallet.
They offer souvenir stamps in Llanfair PG, Wales, just because of the length of the name of it.
Mine expires June 4. I guess I'd better get the renewal started. Just did get mu Real ID (Virginia) using it.
I renewed my passport recently even though it had 7 months left and that’s because it turned 10 years old and a lot of places don’t accept passports that are more than 10 years old even if it has more than 6 months left
There should be a special book or a booklet that you can buy to put those souvenir stamps in so that they will have a place to put them.
One problem with the bringing of an old passport for unofficial stamps is that when you are renewing the passport most countries require the old one be returned to the issuing country government
Depends; in my country you can ask to keep the old passport; ESPECIALLY if you have a valid visa that is good for more years in the old one! Example; i renwed my passport but my usa visa still was valud for 8 extra years so i was allowed to keep it.
Spot on! I am a U.S. citizen (native born, which only means anything for this comment). My neurologist took away my driver's license (for good reason--I would not wish vertigo on even my worst enemy!) So I keep a U.S. passport card in my pocket (similar size to a driver's license) and then the U.S. blue book for international travel. Let's just say, the passport card will get me into Canada, Mexico and a couple of other countries. The big blue book gets me to go internationally. Since my passport is brand new, I do not yet have any stamps. But thanks to your advice, I will take my old passport book and have a stamp for treasure! (By the way, when renewing your passport, they will return all of your documents, including your old passport! Win, Win! Plan ahead and get that passport early and your renewal early. It took 10 weeks for my new passport to arrive in the U.S. mail.)
This happened to me I travelled beginning of December and my passport expired in February and I missed my flight
US immigration is the worst I've experienced for burning through pages with single stamps on fresh pages. Happens so often I just assume it's deliberate.
Turkey, Serbia and Northern Cyprus do the same. Thanks to them, I have at least 4 pages with only one stamp right in the middle. I didn't know you could ask them to gently stamp an already stamped page, usually considering the way they looked at me I wouldn't consider even trying to say a word
US Exceptionalism, entitlement or ignorance.... call it what you want..... Yet, had an incredible Immigration officer at Chicago Airport. Longhaul flight, Flight attendants gave me the wrong form and I had problems with my eyes.... He filled in the form for me and I just signed it....he was under surveillance, too...
@@KimJongStinYou can. Verbally non verbally... most will oblige happily... I have done it for the past couple of years.... It's also about communication skills, how your approach and attitude is.....
@@KimJongStin I think in North Cyprus you can even ask to have your stamp on a separate paper.... because of the NC status. I am an EU citizen. I will fly into ECN this February and will see and try....
My passport pages are all blank. All I do is cross the US Canada border and as y’all know they don’t stamp. That’s all I can afford. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The Vatican has stopped giving out those souvenir stamps because of this issue.
They never had real proper immigration stamps.
I know a German family went on holiday in West Germany and went on a train into East Germany. The East German security stopped entire train just because teenage son had something on Passport and not on all documents . It was a nickname !!! .
like uzupis in Vilnius,lithuania
I forgot my passport at home when I went on vacation, and that was during COVID. A passport control officer told me to never do that again because I could be detained until they ascertain my identity.
I don’t have passport. If, I did have a past port. I’ll keep it, in my fireproof box. When not in used.
Keep passports in Zip Lock bags and inside a watertight container, simple.
I don't know if it still done, but I have had additional pages added by the passport authority when my stamps section was getting too full.
In the US, you can no longer do this, but you can request the extra pages on the application. I always get them, though I've never needed them, because why not?
I have a flight tomorrow sadly my passport received a stain but not that serious all the pages are still in tact and no damage
Check the entry requirements of the country, and check if through an official source, such as an embassy or consulate. The expiration date and blank pages are a good starting point though, but it's more complex than that. Some examples:
1. Visa requirements - make 100% sure whether you need a visa for the country as it's not always straightforward. Make sure the visa is in the same passport, if the country requires it (most of the world does, the US does not and there's a few other exceptions).
2. Blank pages - not that straightforward: Mexico requires 1 blank page, 2 if you need a visa. South Africa requires 2 blank pages facing each other. There are many other odd ones to consider.
3. Passport validity - could be anything from 0 days to about 6 months. The US has different times for different nationalities. Most countries have a fixed amount though.
4. ICVP - easy one to forget because it's so seldomly needed. Forgetting this one could allow you to travel but not come back home.
What is ICVP? Thanks
@@madchatteress International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis. Needed when traveling to some countries, sometimes only to return. Commonly it’s for yellow fever, but could also be polio or meningitis. Just one of those things you don’t always think about.
Europeans traveling in Europe can travel with a valid ID, but we always bring our passports.
I should stress that a passport is the most personal document we have, so taking good care of it is important.
This highlights a major issue I have in that I have a capital letter in the middle of my last name. I'm Scottish. This is _very_ common with Scottish names but all too often websites won't allow me to spell my name the way it is on my passport.
Nor will airlines issue tickets with two middle names.
What about other countries that let government agencies put stamps in the back of the passport eg thai work permit department does this?
Watching this with my Syrian passport and laughing. My biggest mistake is being a holder of such a document 😂😂😂😭😭😭😭 new or old I’m not even boarding the plain 😂😭
Some customs people are egomaniacs, and take perverse pleasure in ruining someone's vacation on a whim.
What if 10 of my back oahes have an orange stain? Xxxx❤❤❤
So annoyed at the Vietnamese Immigration officer, she randomly stamped my entry 2 pages after the majority of my country stamps. Now it is no longer in chronological order and I have less blank pages. What a waste. I didn't know I could ask immigration officers to stamp in a particular position. I thought it was standard practise/common sense to follow the order of use and stamp on 1/2 a page.
Could you possibly chime in on stamps for places like San Marino? San Marino actually is a real country, and their stamps are issued by low-level government (such as a post office or tourism office). They are not mandatory to have; you can visit San Marino without getting a stamp at all. Officially, they are "tourist visas," but they are absolutely not an indication of entry or exit. Reddit has argued endlessly over whether these stamps are okay to have or not.
In 98 % of the cases you won't have any problem, but some countries (the ones in south-east asia like Thailand, Vietnam etc are well known for being particularly picky) might argue that they are fake stamps, as they are purely touristic and not for a matter of immigration control or custom procedures.
That's actually the reason Monaco's tourism office stopped stamping real passports, unless they're expired, and now sells fake eight pages souvenir Monaco passports with pictures, drawings and the Principality stamp in them.
That's also why even upon request to the immigration officers, you won't be able to get a stamp from a Schengen state if you're an EU citizen or a foreign visitor who already has an entry stamp from a country in the Schengen area
Heh, I haven't left the EU in so long that both of my passports expired already 15 years ago.
My passport has a crease on the photo page will this be okay?
Hi!
I damaged my information page and changed my passport,
in the old passport I have USA visa that is not damaged, can I travel to USA with my old and new passports?
Who noticed art vandelay
You did not need to show your passport, when you said "about" that was it... it's funny that you say your passport like having 1 is normal. I have 4 and I think it's normal to have a least 2
I have 2 and am working on #3.
Soo Cute.❤ God bless you.🎉
"That country does'nt know anything about you?"Hilarious!!!!
Peru no longer stamps passports.
Hey Aly, before you use that animation with the globe and flags of countries in your video, you should have made sure that the borders of countries, especially Ukraine, were shown correctly, according to internationally recognized borders.
I'd never heard of novelty stamps - but surely you'd have to be insane to let some random person touch your passport??
Retired ELA teacher here- please change the title to say "prevent" you, not deny you.
You started your comment with an incomplete sentence and improper punctuation. Followed by a run-on sentence you failed to capitalize. You're retired, and it's the internet. Put the red pen away.
@@Mobius1_ I hate to burst your little bubble, but it's not a run-on sentence. The punctuation is there to prevent a run-on sentence. I only commented on the title and I did it politely.
I do hope I did not upset you. I am retired, as you reminded me. Old habits die hard. As you also pointed out- it is the internet so who cares.
@@Mobius1_
P. S. We weren't allowed to edit student work with a red pen.
I'm sorry officer, my dog ate my passport.
I have a Lego passport, so I can get any special stamp 😂
I recently have gotten a Nexus card and have used it to cross from Canada into the U.S. by land. only once. My question to you is can it solely be used to fly from Canada into the US and back? Or do I need to bring a passport as well?
Usually American citizens can use a passport card for traveling either way between U.S. and Canada without the book. There is probably some fine print or some exceptions somewhere, so you may want to check the official websites to see if any apply to you.
@@ajs11201 sorry, I guess I didn't specify that I'm a Canadian too
NEXUS rules are interpreted differently at different border crossings and airports. I would never travel across any national border without my passport. Your NEXUS card can sure speed things up, but you never know what the agents are looking for on any particular day.
Which country are you from?
A few clues indicate Canada. 🇨🇦
@@gerryz1839I think I know the city but I will not say for her privacy.
Her passport appears to be Canadian and how she says “about,” so I am guessing Canada.
@@gerryz1839Is it the pronunciation of "about" and "out"?
it's a dead giveaway. Among other things@@chronic2023
Don’t be a passport nibbler❤😅
Even if you have an outdated marriage license!…. And have a divorce…. You can still be offered citizenship into another county in which an outdated paperwork would be easily accepted!…. Duel citizenship is easy!…. 🤫
Got an official passport stamp for Liechtenstein once had no problems throughout Europe 😎
Liechtenstein is a official country.
They have also their own passport.
@@daylightdaylight6612 Liechtenstein does not have a CBP desk at their international airport (cuz they don’t have one). The stamp…while official…is purely for souvenir purpose.
@@1960mikey Liechtenstein has NO airport!
@@1960mikey I did not say they have an entry stamp. I did not talked about a stamp.
They have their OWN passport!
They are under the regulations of Switserland but Liechtenstein is a country like Andorra, Monaco.
@@1960mikey Liechtenstein has a monarch and the capital is Vaduz
Someday you will wave an embedded chip from your hand.
I can guarantee you…an airline employee will not deny you boarding for a souvenir stamp in your passport. You might encounter being denied into or out of a country by their boarder guards tho.
airline IS responsible for you and would be obliged to take you back to your point of departure if something goes awry. airline will thus take a look
@@rivenoak hyperbole: I wrote that you might not get admitted into another country and that the airline employee could not deny you boarding. Even the US Department of State uses the language writes, “could potentially consider novelty stamps as ‘damage’ to a passport”. I’m commenting on life as an airline staff… I’m not going out on a limb to deny a passenger travel cuz in case they might be detained, and the language in the countries rules state nothing about souvenir stamps. I personally asked passengers to open their passports to the page with the “current visa” to the country they are going to. Inspecting each page of a 20+ page passport doesn’t happen at an airline check-in desk. If it did, 853 passengers on a high density A380 would take more than the recommended 3 hours before checkin suggestion.
@@1960mikeyYou still cannot speak for all check-in agents......that's preposterous! They may have different instructions! This souvenir stamps are silly and shouldn't be in any passport....
@@classics39 you have insight about one person being denied by an airline employee over this issue, by all means - share it.
@@1960mikey How idiotic is this? As if you or I would know about all transactions at all check-in counters of all airlines and airports on this planet! Fact is: nothing should be in your passport except official stamps/visa.
For anything else buy yourself one of these fun fake passports. I've worked for the Foreign Office and held a diplomatic passport for some years.
According to the international laws I am allowed to enter my country in Europe/EU with my ID card.
I tried to leave the US once with my ID card and they told me that it was not possible.
They insisted to see my passport.
Why the US is not following the international rules?
Are you sure it's really an international rule? There are certainly places where the restrictions are lessened, but just because a few countries have agreements doesn't mean those are universal.
@@ajs11201 yes, if you live in the EU and most of Europe you can travel with an ID, also if you go the a certain webside for travel information and you type my country in as destination and departure point the US the out come is that I can travel with an ID. Also I asked the office of foreing affairs of my country and they confirmed me that if I am traveling directly to the EU(and that is for all EU counties) I am the right to travel with my ID.
For entering the US I need a passport and an esta but for going to the EU I do not need a passport.
An airline must check the passengers ID to see if the passenger who is checking in is the same passenger in the reservation and check if the passenger meet the rules for entry the point of destination. If the entry rule not require a pasport for entering the country than an airline can not demand a passport.
On the otherhand I must say to enforce this, because my country or the EU is not demanding a passport for their EU citizen, I know I will miss my flight and it will take a lot of talking and discusion and maybe an intervention of the embassy of my country.
Example: since the UK is out of the EU we need again a passport to go to the UK but for returning to the EU our ID card is enough
@@ajs11201 do you think that the countries in the EU/Europe are fake countries?
There are international laws and one is that I can enter the EU with my ID card so other countries must let me leaving their country with my ID card if I go straight to a destination in the EU.
Because it’s easier to view a passport for documentation and move on. Otherwise you are asking each agent to view/read the timatic results, where it states an ID card is valid for entry to your country. There are 195 different countries with rules on entry - stop it, do us all a favor and just present a passport!
First, who was ‘they’ who told you it wasn’t possible? US Customs and Border Protection does not check your passport/ID card when leaving the US. The airline you are flying DOES because without the proper documents you will be denied entry at your destination. AND the airline will be responsible for returning you to your point of embarkation. Second, what ‘international law’ are you referring to? There is no international law that requires any country follow any EU regulations for its residents - why would there be? EU regulations have no authority outside the borders of the EU. International agreements that DO exist require a valid passport for travel between countries unless there are bilateral agreements that allow for something else (like Canada and the US or Mexico and the US).
In this day and age of turmoil, best advice is to just travel within your country. No passport needed, no hassle, no foreign issues and best of all, support your own country with $$$
I travel to Mexico every two or three weeks, and never have any problems. (Pues, sí hablo español perfectamente, pero...Well, yes, I speak Spanish perfectly, but...).
better to have a passport just in case though. You still need a form of ID to check in to hotels and travel within your country,
@@Canleaf08 I never go anywhere without my passport, and just in case, a copy of my passport.
Not when your country is quickly becoming a dictarship/communist sh1thole...you need to get out...im looking at you Chanada
@@Canleaf08a passport is a form of ID and can absolutely be used to check in to a hotel.
six months after Leaving destination
dont get on a plane before getting approval visa
yes and no, because _visa on arrival_ is a thing sometimes. but ofc you are obliged to plan ahead.
The airline will deny you boarding if you need a visa and have not gotten one, unless it's visa on arrival. I saw this happen 50 years ago when everyone needed a visa to go anywhere. A professor was trying to board a plane with a letter from the Japanese government but had failed to get a visa. He argued and argued. No way he got on that plane.
Seriously! I couldn’t watch this to the end. Do people in USA really need telling this? Lord help us!!
Strangely, there are people all over the world who may be traveling internationally for the first time or haven’t flown for years. Has nothing to do with the USA IMHO. Just basic advice for anyone who may need it. Those who don’t need that advice can just move along without leaving snarky comments. Seriously.
@@wadecampbell7727 Strangely, not snarky at all, genuine amazement at idiocy. Seriously
@@tinaunderhill5412 okay, so say you’re a 70-year-old Canadian traveling for the first time internationally ( I know, unlikely, but nevertheless possible), is that person an idiot for watching and benefiting from a video like this? Hundreds of thousands of people will fly for the first time using a passport and have no clue about possible pitfalls.
I happen to agree with you that the vast majority of international travelers probably don’t need refreshers on basic passport info, but it’s useful for newbies to have access to the info, thus my reaction to your dismissive comment.
@@wadecampbell7727 OK, yours is the voice of reason. I must just be a bit intolerant. Have a hug 🤗
@@tinaunderhill5412 I’ll take a hug anytime, right back atcha! 😘
Hi!
I damaged my information page and changed my passport,
in the old passport I have USA visa that is not damaged, can I travel to USA with my old and new passports?