Souvenir Passport Stamp : Don’t Put It In Your REAL Passport!

We all love souvenir passport stamps, but you should NEVER put any souvenir passport stamp in your REAL passport!

Tina Sibley found out the hard way what happens when you do, and shared her tale with us, so we won’t ever have to go through what she went through!

 

Souvenir Passport Stamp : What Are They?

Passport stamps are prized souvenirs of your travels, commemorating each country you visited in the past. But you can only visit so many countries, and they only tell a snippet of your travel tales.

That’s why souvenir passport stamps are incredibly popular. Tourist destinations offer them as a way for visitors to commemorate their visit. And many a traveller, old and young, can be found happily stamping away.

While many souvenir passport stamp stations offer paper, some even offer faux passports for you to bring home as a souvenir!

But you should NEVER put a souvenir passport stamp into your REAL passport!

 

Souvenir Passport Stamp : Don’t Put It In Your REAL Passport!

While many souvenir passport stamps look like actual passport stamps, they are NOT legal, and should NOT be placed in your real passport.

Passports are official documents, and only authorised officials can stamp it or make notations on it. In Page 5 of US passports (for example), it is stated under the Alteration or Mutilation of Passport section that :

You may request for a souvenir passport stamp at international borders (because passport stamps are no longer necessary), as these are legal and placed in your passport by a government official.

However, souvenir passport stamps at tourist attractions are NOT legal, and should NEVER be placed in a real passport. This includes the famous Checkpoint Charlie stamp in Berlin, and the Machu Picchu stamp from Peru.

In fact, it was the famous Machu Picchu souvenir passport stamp that got Tina Sibley into trouble…

 

Souvenir Passport Stamp : What Happens If You Put It In A Real Passport

Tina Sibley found out the hard way when Qatar Airways stopped her from boarding her flight to Thailand, because she had Vinicunca and Machu Picchu souvenir passport stamps in her real passport!

She missed the flight, of course, and was asked to contact the British Embassy to obtain emergency travel documents the next day.

After two days of wrangling with the British Embassy, the Thai Embassy, Qatar Airways and even Emirates Airlines, Tina finally received her emergency passport from the British Embassy… and finally, flew to Thailand!

Tina finally made it onto the Qatar Airways plane 48 hours later, and she came upon another person who had the same problem!

Fortunately for him, he could get an emergency passport right away at the airport!

We are glad to note that she made it to Phuket in time for the wedding she was planning to attend. But it cost her 48 hours, and a load of money!

So let us learn the lesson she paid such a high price for – NEVER put a souvenir passport stamp into your real passport!

 

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