How Many Passport Stamps Do You Have?

Sammyhostie · Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:45 am

how many passport stamps do you have?

Countries within the EU dont seem to stamp them anymore, which i think is a shame.

It's nice looking through them, thinking of the memories!

ba757 · Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:50 am

I only have one - from the US.

Adam

MYT332 · Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:53 am

I have a new passport, but i have stamps from Jamaica, NY, SFO and Egypt, the last one being the best since it has stamps n labels all over the place.

In my old one i had a few good stamps from Malta and Turkey. Spain and Greece don't bother as much anymore, something to do with the EU no doubt.

Still makes me laugh when i see one of the stamps from the usa and next to it it says paroled and then the date. Its like im some criminal Big grin

FoxBravo · Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:04 am

Enough that I had to get an insert with extra pages added because my passport was full. Smile

jmy007 · Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:20 am

I know these days you have to ask for a stamp from passport control in Europe. They don't chop it like they use to.
I have a ton of stamps in my passport from all over the world. I only have 2 useable pages and 4 more years to go!

you can check out some of my stamps at

http://jmy007.tripod.com/jmy/id5.html sorry its kind of slow loading.

petazulu · Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:23 am

My favorite stanp is the one from St. Barths. It was an outline of the island in Rainbow Ink. It was issued in the outdoor hut they called the terminal.

Good times, good times.

rojo · Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:31 am

Mexican Passport: 44 stamps + 2 visas.
Spanish Passport: 0 stamps (I only use is to get into the European Union countries)

The good thing is that if I want to get a stamp from the EU, I only show my Mexican passport and they stamp it.

RiverVisualNYC · Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:33 am

Never enough! If one doesn't get out and see the world, how can one claim to understand it? Smile

Jaspike · Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:39 am

Countries within the EU dont seem to stamp them anymore, which i think is a shame.
They don't look at them either Laugh out loud

I've got a few Russian stamps in mine, a Russian visa and a big bit of stapled in Russian card Smile

kilavoud · Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:40 am

Fifty eight, entry or exit stamps. I have got place for sixty more. I have never counted them before. Just you Sammyhostie gave me such an idea. Thanks for it.

Cheers. Kilavoud.

B747-437B · Fri Mar 12, 2004 6:00 am

A rough count throws up 216 stamps since 1998.

I run out of space every 18 months or so and have to get a new booklet added on.

MerC · Fri Mar 12, 2004 6:00 am

I have two - entry and exit stamps from Turkey.

Matt27 · Fri Mar 12, 2004 6:10 am

I have four stamps from Indonesia, two from Australia, one from New Zealand and one from Singapore = 8. Not too bad these days.

Ken777 · Fri Mar 12, 2004 6:19 am

Thanks for the idea to check!

Currently 176 not counting US stamps on my return. Sadly almost half are departure stamps. Most were possible because I go through Australia on business on a RTW ticket, opening up a lot of fantastic places to visit in Asia and Europe. Still have 7 pages open on the insert and another year to fill them before a new passport. Will start working on that in 3 weeks.

graham697 · Fri Mar 12, 2004 6:51 am

I don't believe Canada stamps anymore. I have almost 200 unique stamps. We go on a lot of vacations and business. A Majority would be WAW and my return to TPA.

n757kw · Fri Mar 12, 2004 7:05 am

In my current passport I have a measly 19 stamps and 1 visa.

6 stamps from South Korea
8 stamps from Indonesia
2 stamps from Thailand
3 stamps from the U.S.
1 visa from Indonesia

N757KW

B747-437B · Fri Mar 12, 2004 7:12 am

I don't believe Canada stamps anymore.

I have 5 Canadian stamps from 2004 already, and another 8 from 2003 so I assure you that they very much do stamp on request!

Ryanair737 · Fri Mar 12, 2004 7:26 am

I have 3 stamps in my passport, all from Cape Town, South Africa.

Ryanair737

FoxBravo · Fri Mar 12, 2004 8:19 am

FYI, just because a place doesn't stamp generally doesn't mean you can't ask for one. I have done this on occasion when arriving in foreign countries for the first time, and I don't think this is uncommon--no immigration officer has ever refused or even given me a strange look upon hearing my request (just don't do this if the officer seems particularly grumpy or surly).

One interesting note: for most of my life, the U.S. rarely bothered stamping at all, at least not for U.S. citizens arriving in NY. However, since 9/11, they seem to stamp every time without fail, so I am rapidly filling up my passport with lots of boring JFK/EWR stamps.

B747-437B · Fri Mar 12, 2004 8:54 am

no immigration officer has ever refused

I got into a very nasty confrontation with LHR T3 immigration on this issue a few months ago, but came away empty handed. They have declined to stamp my passport the last 5 trips there...

jmy007 · Fri Mar 12, 2004 8:58 am

I know with with larger airports, such as LAX and JFK, you have to ask for a stamp for a US passport. Smaller place do it with out asking. And even in the bigger airports, no officer seemed bothered by stamping it on request.

COAB767 · Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:03 am

More than I could ever count.

VC-10 · Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:04 am

I went to the US twice last year with a new passport. My old passport had an Afghan visa in it, can you imagine the welcome I would have recieved from US immigration is they had seen my old passport?

ClassicLover · Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:05 am

I have none...

I used to use my Passport as my ID when I went out clubbing...

Unfortunately, it became the unfortunate victim of being left in the pants when it was washed.

The first time, it came back okay. The second time - only the cover came back.

You heard it here first - Australian Passports are good for one machine wash, with the second causing death. Smile

Trent.

Skymonster · Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:06 am

My old passport, that has just expired, was totally full - no more space for any more stamps or visas. Some of the stars were Moscow, Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei, Tokyo, Sydney, Auckland, Singapore (many times), Bangkok, Bogota, Lima, La Paz, Quito, Dubai, Bahrain, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Victoria Falls, Harare, Gander, Dublin (US immigration!), and many US gateways including LAX, SFO, MIA, MCO, MSP, IAD, ORD, etc...

My new passport gets its first stamp - Algiers - tomorrow!

Andy

Aviationman · Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:06 am

Hundreds of them. Specially the Cuban ones. So many times to Cuba within the past 7 years.

scottysair · Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:08 am

I got stamp with 3 countries of Bahamas, Italy & Mexico. It is good place visit in these country for us.

CMK10 · Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:09 am

My current passport has 13.
They hail from LGW, RDU, NRT, LHR, FRA, LAX and SFO.

[Edited 2004-03-12 05:34:24]

scottysair · Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:12 am

CMK10,

Those are many trip in/out of USA flight and you were flew to NRT & LGW flight, too. It is nice hear from you again and don't make any sense problems with you.

TR763 · Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:23 am

21 from U.S.A ( 1 in ORD, 1 JFK, 8MCO, 11MIA)
1 from Madrid-Barajas
1 from Paris CDG

andrewuber · Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:46 am

Moving to Dubai was my first time using my passport, and I had a few stamps from LHR and DOH for my visa runs, plus all of my exits and entries into the UAE.

My wife on the other hand, has me exponentially beat. She lived in Dubai and had to stay there on visit visas for six years. Every 59 days she had to go to Mumbai or Kish Island on the dreaded Kish Air (she's been on that Fokker 50 that crashed last month). She currently has three passports stapled together, two of which are full, the third one is nearly full. The first passport was issued in 1999. It's amazing how much she's travelled. She had four more before these, they were all full!

If only she had those frequent flyer miles! Big thumbs up

warren747sp · Fri Mar 12, 2004 10:13 am

Simply too many to count.
I have 3 previous U.S. passport all filled with pages added twice to each one and I often request that immigration officer do not stamp my passport whenever possible. It was easier with INS PASS but now they do not encourage its' use anymore.
I also use another foreign passport sometimes to leave space for the US passport.

KKMolokai · Fri Mar 12, 2004 11:17 am

Have too many to count. One of my favorites is from Moscow, Russia. As previously mentioned, many countries no longer stamp your passport unless you ask them too. Otherwise, I'd have a whole lot more in my passport!

thestooges · Fri Mar 12, 2004 11:47 am

Australian Passport -

Stamps -

2 Singapore Entry
2 Singapore Exit
3 Malaysia Entry
3 Malaysia Exit
1 Thailand Entry
1 Thailand Exit
1 India Entry
1 India Exit
3 UK Entry
1 Greece Entry
2 Netherlands Exit
1 Brazil Entry
2 Argentina Entry
2 Argentina Exit
1 Chile Entry
1 Chile Exit
1 Austria Entry
1 Austria Exit
1 Amsterdam Foreign Police Registration

Visa's -

1 India Visa
1 Netherlands Transit Visa
1 Netherlands Working Visa
1 Brazil Visa

USA Passport -

1 Czech Exit

keno · Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:11 pm

I really wish the EU start stamping our passports (especially at land border crossings) again. I've travelled to about 15 european countries but the number of stamps that I got did not do justice to the number of places that I've been to.

airport stamps:

KUL
LHR
STN
LTN
HAM
GVA
ZRH
MAD
ATH
GIB (Gibraltar)
TRS (Trieste)
TSF (Venice Treviso)

ferry / land crossing stamps:

Bari
Algeciras
Republika Hrvatska (Croatia/Slovenia border)

KLM11 · Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:29 pm

2 Dominican Republic
2 England
2 Mexico
6 Canada

--KLM11

JFernandez · Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:11 pm

Stamps:

Bermuda
Canada
Iceland
Netherlands Antilles
Poland (2)
USA (2)

Declined to stamp:

Canada (2)
England
UK
USA (3)

As an aside, I have a beautiful passport holder in red leather and sterling silver from Asprey. It's a very luxury item, but it looks beautiful (it looks like a bright red passport.)

It comes in Light Blue, Orange, Pink, Black and Brown, I believe. Awesome to have.

QIguy24 · Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:19 pm

I have 5 and all from the US and my passport is from 2001. And I sure wish that I had some more stamps. But I will get some more here this summer and fall if everything goes by the plan.

2 EWR
1 ORD
1 MCO
1 SEA

DFWLandingPath · Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:48 pm

Not to stray off topic, but how do some of you have two different passports from different countries?

Cheers,
DFWLandingPath

Christian · Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:51 pm

In my new, 0 stamps
In my old who expired 2002, I have 2. Entry and Exit to Cyprus from 1998

eham · Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:53 pm

only 2 stamps for me, both from the US (NY & ATL)

Guest · Fri Mar 12, 2004 6:00 pm

Australia- 1 arrival and 1 departure stamp.

USA- 1

Jamaica- 1 and I always get from Customs in the US ever since then, what were you doing in Jamaica?

And a whole bunch from Mexico all in Cabo, maybe 20 or so. I used to party in Cabo every weekend for about a year.

Navigator · Fri Mar 12, 2004 6:01 pm

They usually don´t stamp except in countries where visa is required. I have also stopped asking for stamps. But in the old passport i had following stamps:

Tokyo Narita - Japan
Singapore Changi - Singapore
Seattle Tacoma - U.S.A.
Newark - U.S.A.
Houston - U.S.A.
Merida - Mexico
Cancun - Mexico
Johor Bahru - Malaysia
San Francisco - U.S.A.
Luxembourg - Luxemborg
Geneva - Switzerland
Hong Kong - Hong Kong
Bangkok - Thailand
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia
London Heathrow - GB
London Gatwick - GB
Manchester - GB

And a few more...

pilatusguy · Fri Mar 12, 2004 6:18 pm

Following in my Swiss Passport: all since 2000
- London Heathrow (about 10)
- London Stanstead (2)
- London City (too many to count)
- London Waterloo Eurostar Terminal (1)
- New York JFK (approx. 8)
- New York EWR (approx. 5)
- Bermuda (1 arrival, 1 exit)
- Dallas DFW (3)
- Los Angeles LAX (5)
- San Francisco SFO (3)
- Chicago ORD (2)
- Miami MIA (1)
- somewhere in northern WA (1)
- Johannesburg JNB (1)
- Singapore Changi (4)
- Sydney SYD (3)
- Perth PER (1)
- Hong Kong HKG (2)
- Beijng (1)
- Tokio NRT (2)
- Seoul Incheon (1)

probably forgot some....

fritzi · Fri Mar 12, 2004 6:52 pm

In my new passport, I only have three stamps.

2 US
1 Austrian (No idea why I got that...)

In my previous one I had filled 14 pages.

JGPH1A · Fri Mar 12, 2004 7:11 pm

My old UK passport had some really cool ones:-

Cardiff (on request)
Wallis and Futuna
Auckland + Opua, New Zealand
Tongatapu + Vava'u, Tonga
Apia, Western Samoa
Suva + Nadi, Fiji
Ivalo, Finland
Port Said, Egypt
Kusadasi, Turkey
Vienna, Austria (pre EU)
Sydney+Melbourne, Australia
Denpasar, Indonesia
Bandar Seri Bagawan, Brunei
Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
Amman, Jordan
Vic Falls Zimbabwe
Vic Falls Zambia (I walked over the bridge and back again)
Port Louis, Mauritius
Rio de Janeiro
West End, Tortola BVI
Bridgetown, Barbados
St. Vincent + Union Island, St.Vincent & Grenadines
Carriacou, Grenada
Port of Spain, Trinidad
Zanzibar, Tanzania
Noumea, New Caledonia
Manzini, Swaziland
Malta (transit)
Singapore
Lots of US stamps (SA - California">SFO,SA - New York">JFK,SA - Florida">MIA,SA - California">LAX,SA - Hawaii">HNL,SA - North Carolina">RDU,SA - Missouri">STL,SA - Georgia">ATL,SA - Massachusetts">BOS,SA - Virginia">IAD)

Old SA passport - only lots and lots of JNB and DUR stamps, one stamp from ZRH, one from LHR, and a Taiwanese visa (not used).

New UK passport, not so much

Lots of US stamps (SA - Massachusetts">BOS,SA - New York">JFK,SA - New Jersey">EWR,SA - Illinois">ORD,SA - Florida">MCO)
Halifax, Canada
Hong Kong
Macau
Belize City, Belize
Sydney, Australia

[Edited 2004-03-12 11:38:56]

oobitsa · Fri Mar 12, 2004 7:17 pm

Too many to count, but multiples of the following:

Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, South Korea, Pakistan, India, Peru, Chile, Jamaica, Germany, UK, France.

tomgib · Fri Mar 12, 2004 7:28 pm

I just got a new passport. My old one was pretty nice and had some good stamps in it, i.e.:

Gander, Newfoundland
Warsaw, Poland
several U.S. immigration stamps
Denmark
U.K. - London Heathrow
Tons of stamps from Singapore and Malaysia (my job takes me back and forth between Europe the two countries quite often)
Gothenburg, Sweden
Oslo, Norway
Barbados
Athens, Greece
Malta

and my favourite is ANTIGUA - ENTRY BY SEA as I crossed the Atlantic Ocean on a sailboat back in 96´..

justplanecrazy · Fri Mar 12, 2004 7:33 pm

I have since 1995; Holland,France,Florida,Singapore,Australiax8,LA,Tahiti.New zealand,Barbados,Union islands,Tokyo,Osaka,Vancouver and Toronto(2003),and it would have been nice to get my passport stamped in Hawaii in 2003 and 2002,but i came from the US and Canada. Ive also been to Madrid to see R.MADRID and to Milan to see AC MILAN in the last 2 weekends but no stamp in Europe any more.

TFJamie · Fri Mar 12, 2004 7:41 pm

Old one had Heathrow, Czech rep., Poland (in and out by car), US(MCO). It was nice but I mainly travel in Europe, and Iceland being a member of Schengen you really have to whine to get stamps in those countries. New one only has Egypt, but that's a good start for the next 6 years. Egypt is by far the best with two paper stamps, handwriting and entry and departure stamp.

Jens

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