How to dry out a wet passport?

10/5/2020 11:04:50 AM

Using an iron on a low setting with a dry towel in between the pages works good. Then place a weight on top of the passport while it is still wrapped in the towel. It will look clean and pressed when finished. Just did it for the 2nd time in 6 months. Accidental swim with the passport in my rear pants pocket as it did the backstroke in the washer

8/19/2019 12:04:43 PM

Put paper towels between each page and a large pot with heavy cans inside to flatten the covers.

5/21/2016 9:17:32 PM

I just now found out that if you wash your passport and live in west Texas, you can just let it sit on a table in the back yard at midday. That moisture will disappear by the time you finish your second Shiner Bock.

8/23/2015 3:43:15 PM

I’ve used tinfoil to separate the pages and stood it on the radiator this worked a treat : )

7/4/2014 9:11:06 AM

A substitute for silica is rice – that is more easily available. Submerge your passport in rice with all the pages separated.

7/4/2014 7:03:38 AM

One very fast and reliable way it to simply leave your open passport next to a fan – put a fan onto a table and put the passport onto some raised object in front of the fan. Once the pages closest to the fan dry out (which is like in half an hour) you can proceed to other pages. Alternatively you can interleave the pages with something like pens or similar size objects so that they are separated and then the process will go much faster.

7/3/2014 9:36:59 PM

You could dry the pages with paper towels as much as possible, then hang it to dry on a string with the pages spread out or separated by bits of paper towel- don’t leave them in contact with each other wet or they may stick together. Change the paper towels for dry ones periodically as it dries.

You could also put it in a container with some silica gel, but buying that tends to be a bit of expedition even if you live in the place you’re looking (some craft stores sell it for drying flowers). Or put it in sealed container with (uncooked, of course) rice, but always keep wet pages from spending too much time in contact by using paper towels.

I dried out a passport and entire wallet contents this way with little trouble (the cell phone didn’t fare as well, unfortunately).

Be sure to inspect any unused visas to make sure they’ve not been damaged.

I’ve found that passports (Canadian ones anyway) are amazingly resilient– despite being soaked with water or sweat they’re still usable with just a bit of wrinkling on the cover to show for it.

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