Are there countries that are known to place their stamp at the end of the passport?

5/11/2019 3:11:17 PM

Timeframe 1970 to 1993:

Poland with Visa: any free page (first in the middle, next after previous in my first passport)

Poland and Czech Republic without Visa: last pages

DDR (East Germany) without Visa: first free page, with the next entry/exit stamps on the same page

West Germany entry/exit stamps: near exit stamp of previous country

1/10/2017 10:16:43 AM

It seems that policies are changing. My stamps (from 2012 and/or 2013) from Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova and Armenia are all in the front. It doesn’t seem to be a one-time-thing as I have eight stamps from Georgia (or they try to place it close to the old ones, I don’t know).

The only stamps I have in the back are from Belarus.

3/6/2020 1:29:42 AM

Tally based on answers received so far

Stamps on last page

The following countries place their stamp on the last page:

Former Soviet countries

  • Russia
  • Ukraine
  • Georgia
  • Belarus
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Moldova

Other

  • Albania
  • Finland (ties to Russia, but not part of USSR)
  • South Korea
  • Mongolia
  • Morocco (based on right-to-left writing?)

Does not stamp on last page

One could expect the following countries that they would, but they don’t:

  • Poland
  • Romania
  • Hungary

Stamps in other interesting ways

  • Mexico: go through pages until they find a US stamp, stamp close to there
1/9/2017 11:23:58 AM

From my personal experience, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, and Mongolia all stamped on the last page of my passport.

8/21/2016 7:11:44 PM

After checking my passports I can add Albania as a country doing this. It was communist but certainly not part of the Soviet influence sphere.

Furthermore, I confirm Morocco and the ex-USSR countries. An notable exception is my Nagorno-Karabakh visa which is in the middle of my passport.

8/21/2016 4:30:31 PM

Morocco does that too, in this case I suppose it has to do with right to left way of reading.

I traveled to Morocco at least twice a year for a few years, I am now living there since a few years and traveling from there, every single stamp has been put at the end (at least thirty, a hundred if I count my wife’s and my kids ‘)

8/21/2016 2:10:43 AM

According to a comment here on Travel.SE by @CMaster:

On a recent trip to Mexico, the officer at the border went through until they found a US stamp, and the Mexican entry stamp as close to that as possible. No idea why.

8/21/2016 1:59:34 AM

Yes. Every time I flew to Russia and Ukraine, both always stamp my passport on the last page, or on a previous one. Considering they all do that, we can safely assume there is a procedure.

I suspect this may be the case with more ex-USSR countries as you mentioned with Georgia.

Also at Helsinki airport they also stamp the last page, even though Finland was not part of ex-USSR. “Warsaw block” countries (Poland, Romania, Hungary) however do not do that at all.

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