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Two foreign passports. Should you take both with you?
Good afternoon. I have two valid passports. Is it worth taking both on a trip? In fact, one is needed - but I read that sometimes customs officers are asked to present another foreign passport.
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Customs officers do not look at passports at all, their business is not to carry unauthorized goods.
And I have a counter question, how does the border control know that you have two foreign passports? Only one is needed to cross the border! Here also choose!
And I have a counter question, how does the border control know that you have two foreign passports? Only one is needed to cross the border! Here also choose!
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answered 6 years ago
I often hear about two passports. A school comes to mind when everyone had two diaries. One for parents and one for twos. I think that there is an analogy here ... Only today all the "jambs" are entered into the computer, and in some countries the fingers are "rolled back". Knowing this situation, the receiving party itself establishes control over the entering persons. Or maybe 3,4,5 .. passports? Then you need to keep records of where, when and to whom to show the required passport)) Is this a normal phenomenon in Ukraine? Or is it still an exception to the rule?
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answered 6 years ago
in general, there are marks in the passports that 2 valid passports.
I always drive 2
It doesn't weigh 100 kg. and it doesn't take up much space.
mishatour,
in Ukraine now you often see the presence of 2 passports in connection with biometrics and visa-free travel.
Let me give you an example ;)
valid visas in an ordinary foreign country (USA, Canada)
and biometrics, so as not to bother with visas to Europe.
I always drive 2
It doesn't weigh 100 kg. and it doesn't take up much space.
mishatour,
in Ukraine now you often see the presence of 2 passports in connection with biometrics and visa-free travel.
Let me give you an example ;)
valid visas in an ordinary foreign country (USA, Canada)
and biometrics, so as not to bother with visas to Europe.
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answered 6 years ago
AllOverTheWorld, have you ever been asked to show your second foreign passport?
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answered 6 years ago
Not)
But just like you, I heard or read that you need to have 2 with you (legally I have not found confirmation)
But just like you, I heard or read that you need to have 2 with you (legally I have not found confirmation)
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answered 6 years ago
in Poland they asked me at the control where the 2nd one was, she said she was at home, nothing without complaints, they have all the information in the database
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answered 6 years ago
The meaning of two valid passports, among other things, is that if one is lost, the second allows you to immediately go on the next trip without any problems, and not wait for a month for the passport to be made. Carrying two passports at once is a risk of losing both. For example, I often lose my passports (((.
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answered 6 years ago
AllOverTheWorld, thanks for the info. And when will your passport expire, and the visa to the states will still be valid? Is such a situation theoretically possible? I have such a situation. In these cases, we are left with an invalid (expired) passport with an American visa. It is used in conjunction with a valid one and only to pass the border there.
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answered 6 years ago
There was such a situation, even before biometrics, the (red) old passport had a valid Canadian visa, wrote a statement that they would leave the passport
The passport was canceled (but left), the series and number were cut off on all pages; before the end of the visa, she traveled with an old and a new passport.
and soon there will also be such a situation, not biometrics ends, but visas are still valid.
The passport was canceled (but left), the series and number were cut off on all pages; before the end of the visa, she traveled with an old and a new passport.
and soon there will also be such a situation, not biometrics ends, but visas are still valid.
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answered 6 years ago
in general, there are marks in the passports that 2 valid passports.
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Not a fact - I do not have a mark in my old passport about receiving a new one. The old one is still active.
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Not a fact - I do not have a mark in my old passport about receiving a new one. The old one is still active.
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answered 6 years ago
not a fact, maybe you just didn't see it?
both passports are stamped with the series and date of issue of the passport.
both passports are stamped with the series and date of issue of the passport.
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answered 6 years ago
AllOverTheWorld, I also don’t have a stamp (because I didn’t even take my old passport with me)
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answered 6 years ago
strange...
incomprehensible ....
in the database, that is, that you have a valid passport in stock ....
just then you can make 10 pieces .....
incomprehensible ....
in the database, that is, that you have a valid passport in stock ....
just then you can make 10 pieces .....
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answered 6 years ago
Upon receipt of the bimetrics, they wanted an old passport - put a stamp, I, let's say, forgot it at home. When asked why the stamp, the OVIR employee replied that some visa centers (I think, countries like the USA, England) want to see both passports. And when entering on a visa-free or simplified entry, the border guards will have no questions? was the next question. To which she grumbled that she did not know. Having biometrics, I hit the road with an old passport to Turkey - no problem.
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answered 6 years ago
I had two valid passports for a couple of years. There were no marks in either of the existence of the other. At the border, they never asked for a second one, although they always carried two, too. But the parents nearly trip is not broken. Mom wanted to swim from Turkey to Greece on biometrics, but they can only let her out of Turkey on the basis of the passport with which she entered. We barely had time to return to the hotel for an old passport.
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answered 6 years ago
I have two active biometrics, one for work trips, the other for leisure, so that the employer or employees do not know where and when I was. I always travel with one, I never took two at the same time, and they never asked questions about the second one. About old red one, when I received a new one, the girl looked at the visa history and said it’s better not to hand it over, let her stay just in case, signed the form that I want to leave the old passport, they punched it out for me with a hole punch. By the way, with such a passport you can rent a bike in Thailand ( bail), without worrying that he will be kidnapped.
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answered 6 years ago
That’s our system .... then I don’t understand at all who gets marks and who doesn’t ...
and then she herself began to doubt, but still the marks are worth it;)
and then she herself began to doubt, but still the marks are worth it;)
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answered 6 years ago
mishatour, yes, in Russia you can also have two international passports, very convenient for such confused people like me.
Marks on issued passports are put only in the internal passport.
Marks on issued passports are put only in the internal passport.
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answered 6 years ago
Are you losing them at home?)) A second passport does not pass abroad. Flying in and pouring out only one passport. )
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answered 6 years ago
Yes, I lose my passports at home mostly.
But if I lose abroad, then I can fly home with a certificate from the consulate. And on the second passport without any problems to fly abroad again. And if there was only one passport, you won’t leave for a new trip so quickly, you will have to wait a month for a new passport.
But if I lose abroad, then I can fly home with a certificate from the consulate. And on the second passport without any problems to fly abroad again. And if there was only one passport, you won’t leave for a new trip so quickly, you will have to wait a month for a new passport.
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answered 6 years ago
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