passport

I am sure some of you have this happen to you already. My US passport
expires in 2009. But of the 24 pages, say 25 including the inside of
the back cover, available for VISA stamps, only two pages are left
blank. The rest are full of VISA stamps averaging four to seven stamps
per page.

What do you do when your passport runs out of room for VISA stamps? I
have a foreign customs official raise the issue to me already in my
last trip going out of the country. I told him there are two more
pages left.

In article <1130357277.649536.324840@f14g2000cwb. .com>,
yaofeng <yaofengchen@> wrote:

>What do you do when your passport runs out of room for VISA stamps?

I go to a US consulate and get a bunch of extra pages glued into my
passport. Takes anywhere from 20 minutes (Montreal) to 1 day (Tokyo).

contact the U.S. National Passport center - they'll modify your passport by
inserting additional pages.
"yaofeng" <yaofengchen@> wrote in message
news:1130357277.649536.324840@f14g2000cwb. o...
>I am sure some of you have this happen to you already. My US passport
> expires in 2009. But of the 24 pages, say 25 including the inside of
> the back cover, available for VISA stamps, only two pages are left
> blank. The rest are full of VISA stamps averaging four to seven stamps
> per page.
>
> What do you do when your passport runs out of room for VISA stamps? I
> have a foreign customs official raise the issue to me already in my
> last trip going out of the country. I told him there are two more
> pages left.
>

Miguel Cruz wrote:
> VS <shmat@xenon.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> > yaofeng <yaofengchen@> wrote:
> >> What do you do when your passport runs out of room for VISA stamps?
> >
> > I go to a US consulate and get a bunch of extra pages glued into my
> > passport. Takes anywhere from 20 minutes (Montreal) to 1 day (Tokyo).
>
> Only takes 5 minutes here in Kuala Lumpur. There must be some sort of
> arbitrage opportunity in there somehow.

I've had it take anywhere from 20 minutes to 1 week. Seems like it
depends on the consulate and the attitude of the employees at the time.

One way or another it's no big deal.