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Does any country still offer their citizens the option to add new pages on their passport?
I have never seen, nor heard of, any other country than the US that added new pages to their passports when they were full.
The more interesting question would be, other than the US, which countries offered to add new pages to their passport?
The original League of Nations Passport Conferences of the 1920's, where the first norms (as a recommendation) were developed, did not forsee adding pages to a passport, but replacing a fill passport with a fresh passport.
Annex I
Type of "Internationalβ Passport.
The passport is to contain 32 pages. The first four pages only are reproduced herewith.
The other 28 pages should all be numbered and should contain the visas of the countries for which the passport is valid.
The passport should be drawn up in at least two languages, i.e., in the national language and in French.
The passport must be bound in cardboard, bearing on the top the name and in the centre the coat of arms of the country and at the bottom the word "Passportβ, with the addition, according to the desire of the various Governments, of any practical information concerning the regime of passports.
Any passport of which the pages are entirely filled must be replaced by a fresh passport.
The recommendations were, however, not always followed:
The ICAO recommendations advices against additional visa pages, since it can interfere with the machine authentication.
Doc 9303, Machine Readable Travel Documents
Part 2 β Specifications for the Security of the Design, Manufacture and Issuance of MRTDsC.4.1.2 Potentially interfering features for machine authentication
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Additional visa pages: Passports that can be amended with additional visa page inserts can become too massive for ordinary full page reader geometries.