5 Passport Mistakes That Will DENY You from Boarding the Plane 

@@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

@@M_SC Only in the US.

I assume you mean an Immigration Officer rather than a security agent. But I don't see the problem even if it was a North Korean stamp. The Netherlands is not the USA . But how could anybody mistake a novelty PASSPORT for a stamp?

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 have the one from Port Lochroy in Antarctica and Ushuaia as well.

I don't quite understand how you 'forgot' to get a stamp when leaving France/the Schengen area as, assuming you are not an EU/EEA citizen which you can't be if you needed a work visa, then the passport would have been stamped automatically by immigration when you left. If it was not stamped that was their error. I assume that this detention occurred when you returned to France? Obviously, they would have only been interested in an overstay in France/the Schengen area and not elsewhere. The advice to insist on a stamp when leaving ANY country is all very well, but don't forget that countries such as Canada, the UK, the US and others have no immigration control on departure and therefore no departure stamps exist.

​@@Ben-xe8ps Some countries or airports do not stamp your passport even if you are exiting the EU/Schengen area with a residence permit. For example, Berlin Airport refused to stamp my passport despite my inquiring three times with the officer. This happened a few years ago, and I have heard similar experiences from others as well.

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

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.

​@@m3redgt it depends on the country. In some places you have to actually get out a pen and sign your passport

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Who exactly in these 'hard to get into' countries did you ask for these souvenir stamps?

Detained by who? An airline employee may have been unsure of what this temporary document was but an airline employee would have no authority to detain you. If you were detained by Swedish immigration then I don't see how any airline employees would have been involved in their verification of your document.

@@Ben-xe8psAirlines, before they issue a ticket often verify that you have the proper document for the flight, otherwise they have to return you at their expense!

@@redhatbear1135 Do you actually mean a ticket or are you referring to checking you in and issuing a boarding card? I appreciate that, but I am discussing the claim that they were DETAINED which no airline employee has any legal right to do. The airline staff may well have been uncertain about this document but they could not have detained the passenger.

@@Ben-xe8ps Agreed at JFK when I showed up with a one way ticket as I was going to a job, I was question and not really detained in the normal sense but they almost didn’t let me on as I had no return ticket. I had to call my new employer to get some of it straightened out! I was traveling as a tourist until my green card could be issued. Not fun.

@@redhatbear1135 Your reply confuses me. You say that you arrived at JFK intending to board a flight to a destination for which you were required to hold a return ticket and the airline refused to board you as you only held a one-way ticket. That seems a correct decision to me. Quite how your employer assisted you or got the airline to change it's mind, other than buying a return ticket for you, I can't imagine. But you mention a 'green card' which is a US specific thing? Which country was this which would allow a change of status from tourist to foreign worker after arrival? I appreciate some countries may be more relaxed about this than others, but if you had travelled here to the UK as a tourist, such a change of status would not have been allowed. At best, you would have had to leave the UK and obtain an employment visa before returning. At worst, if it was discovered that you had not been truthful about the purpose of your visit to the immigration officer on arrival, you would have been classified as an illegal entrant and removed from the UK, your passport marked accordingly and you would have had great difficulty in returning.

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That would depend on your nationality and where you were travelling to. Please be more specific.

It is Key West. They started this when the Border Patrol set up a checkpoint between Key West and the rest of Florida.

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.

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.

Here in the UK passports are always returned after renewal. I still have my old passports going back several decades. The description pages are stamped 'cancelled' and the top right hand corner of the front cover is cut off.

Which country is this? In the UK such passports cost extra.

@@Ben-xe8ps This is in the US.

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. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Nor will airlines issue tickets with two middle names.

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?

The UK has never done this but in the past for an additional fee you could obtain a massive 94 page passport. I think the number of pages in these more expensive passports has now been reduced.

This is a problem specific to UK passport holders travelling to the EU Schengen area post-Brexit. To encourage people to renew their passports early and not leave it to the last minute, for a number of years the UK used to add the remaining validity of the old passport, up to a certain maximum number of months, to the validity of the new passport. Following Brexit this EU rule about the passport having to have been issued within the last 10 years, which I strongly suspect was just a badly written rule on the assumption tht all passports have a maximum validity of 10 years as this practice was not common and probably not taken into account, was discovered and used as an excuse by, usually low cost, airlines to deny boarding. I don't believe that there has ever actually been an instance of an individual who managed to board a flight actually being refused entry by the EU immigration authorities for this reason and if you don't fly but present yourself to French immigration at their pre-clearance facility at the port of Dover, they won't deny you entry because of this.

More than ten years and six month old passport? A 10 year passport expires in 10 years. There is no grace period.

@@WilliamMurphy-uv9pm Read my reply to the original comment above for explanation of how this could occur in the UK.

@@Ben-xe8ps Thanks for the follow-on information. Guess I need to learn patience and go through all the previous posts to the one puzzling me for possible answers. What a nightmare and confusion it must have created. Done with the best intentions I'm sure but still too quirky for purists in Europe and other places.

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

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.

This must have been at least 35 years ago. I am curious though as to how he came to have a nickname in his passport and what these 'other documents' that they were inspecting were. 'Security' is a strange term to use to refer to East German Immigration (no doubt the police).

I have 2 and am working on #3.

What she did was not uncommon and, especially as passports start to fill up, stamps rarely remain in chronological order. I have never requested an immigration officer to stamp in a particular place and am unsure as to how they would react to such as request; probably humour you but you never know.

Yeah, it is never your fault. Just over-zealous officials complying with the rules. Horrible people.

@@WilliamMurphy-uv9pm That's quite a leep.

@@lylez00 We humans are a strange group with people exhibiting all sorts of behaviors. Some do gravitate to positions of power just for the pleasure of having AND USING that power over others. Some people do not like to find themselves on the receiving end of such an encounter. Best advice is to understand the rules before finding oneself in such an occasion and understanding on which side you fall during the encounter. Some enjoy bending or breaking the rules just to prove to the world how smart they are. When they do get caught, they are surprised and often fall back on blaming the official who is just doing their job. I don't pretend to know where you fall on this vast spectrum of people-types. You eloquently presented your view. When a problem is rules-based, correction is seldom done on a whim. The whim, or judgemental, part of the encounter might have gone negative depending on how you presented yourself and acted as you learned of your meaculpa. No great leap; most of us have found ourselves in such a situation a least once before. You can simply say thank you or you can continue to dig yourself deeper with each brilliant word-salad that comes out of your mouth in defense of the indefensible. In the end, you still don't win. But, you arrogantly tried your best. Some officials are triggered by that kind of arrogant response. It, and you, irritate them for doubling down in a situation where you cannot win. It becomes personal for both parties and only ONE will come out a winner. Likely it wasn't you. Likely you took that kind of leap and missed the perfect landing (usually only obtained in the Olympics). Still mad years later. By expressing your view, that really gets you even or even ahead of such over-zealous officials. Think again. They read these comment sections, too. They will find you again and again until you change your attitude. I know, free advice that you will not take. That's OK, I tried. That cleanses my soul. No great leap needed on my part.

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.

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

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.

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

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! 😘

I suggest that you take both passports to a US consulate and ask them to transfer the valid visa.