Saturday, August 20, 2011

Why do immigration officials like blank pages

My passport is filling up. It’s only four years old, but has just three blank pages remaining, at least it did, until yesterday. Now it only has two, thanks to a Korean immigration official stamping one of the empty ones… right opposite a page of Korean stamps that could have fitted a few more, especially if previous officials were a bit less random.

Of course Korean’s aren’t the only offenders, I’ve a few pages with a solitary US stamp, again opposite a page with another one or two US stamps with plenty of room to spare. Japan makes things worse with a sticker on entry that takes up a quarter of a page and then of course (like most Asian immigrations) there is an exit stamp – that’s nearly half a page gone.

Time for me to apply to Global Entry so hopefully I can at least avoid US stamps…

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