Is there at least one country where short-term visitors cannot use a visa in their old passport?

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Not sure this is exactly what you are looking for but there is at least one country where someone effectively wasn't allowed to enter with a visa in an old passport. I don't have the reference at hand and I am not sure about the country anymore (it was one of the Baltics country) but here is what happened (IIRC):

  1. An Indian citizen flew to the country and presented himself to the border.
  2. He was denied entry because his “valid visa” wasn't in his “valid passport” and the airline was fined for bringing him there.
  3. The airline fought the fine through the national court system, which referred it for a preliminary ruling to the EUCJ.
  4. The EUCJ ultimately ruled that it was in fact allowed by the Schengen Borders code (if you read several languages, you will notice some slight differences between the different versions that might be the source of the problem).
  5. The whole article was overhauled later on I think.

It's not current anymore but it does mean that you can't assume it will obviously be accepted everywhere all the time.

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