Passport – tiny rip on the edge of my passport page
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- Aparna Patel
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- 19 Jul, 2023
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You don’t need to replace the passport because of that. Here are the real problems which makes that necessary:
- Something is not well readable on the main page where the photo and all data is. Usually they laminate it and so this is really, really hard to do. You’d need to break the laminate seal first and then get water under it.
- A piece gets torn out which makes it questionable which number that page is. Often they have multiple markers on a page to make it harder to just willy-nilly sneak in a replacement page so even if one of those goes missing, it’s passport replacement time.
- A large enough piece goes missing that it might have been a stamp.
Basically, your data and history should be intact.
Tears from badly removed staples, normal wear and tear along the edges, these are fine. The stamp pages of my passport from my “digital nomad” years by the end looked like a small animal nibbled the edges. Heck, a very good friend of mine put her passport through a washing machine and it was still fine, I know because we went together to the CBSA office in downtown Vancouver to check and they said it’s OK.
I’ve had a multitude of random things (including I-94s) stapled into and removed from my passports over the years. There has never been the slightest problem with minor damage to the passport (yes it happens) because of these actions. Enjoy your trip!
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