Thread: old to new passport

When you change from an old to new passport are all the previous visas recorded?
For example if you have done 2 land crossings this year on your old one
could you do another this year in your new one?

Originally Posted by david44

they used 2 of my virgin pages to enter details BY HAND of the old one

FFS! Complain to your embassy, it's unacceptable defacement of their property.

Originally Posted by david44

they seem to operate as a law unto themselves.

Yeah, when leaving Thailand a year or two ago on my new passport (issued in BKK) the Immi guy assumed I was an overstayer and had got a new passport to try to hide that. This was Hatyai airport, not a land crossing. Seems the big bro computer is not all that great.

Originally Posted by noelbino

When you change from an old to new passport are all the previous visas recorded?
For example if you have done 2 land crossings this year on your old one
could you do another this year in your new one?

Interesting question. See my comment re my new pp above.
So, are you on a tourist visa or is your land crossing like my nearest one that treats farang regardless of visa type as backpackers?

Just carry all your passports, used and current, with you. An elastic band is all you need to hold them together.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

FFS! Complain to your embassy, it's unacceptable defacement of their property.

^ Well it is! Your passport is the property of your government and minor officials of a foreign government should not be defacing it with superfluous handwriting to satisfy their silly self-imposed bureaucratic nonsense, especially 2 pages worth.

Originally Posted by can123

Just carry all your passports, used and current, with you. An elastic band is all you need to hold them together.

That's what wifey has to do, no ploplem at all and whenever the old is being checked I get the feeling that the official knows everything's in order otherwise she wouldn't be carrying it.