Will I get denied entry after I removed a visa sticker? Is my passport damaged?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 26 Jul, 2023
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On whether your passport is considered damaged: in theory, yes
Whether you will be denied entry: really depends. I had a BD passport with missing pages. A couple of countries created 0 problems. After going all around the world, it was the BD immigration which saw the detached pages and denied me my flight. As it happened, that was the only time I kept the pages in my passport.
After days of trying to work with the useless Bangladesh Passports, I just booked a flight and superglued the pages.
Funny how $2 could have saved me thousands of $$$. So yeah, most likely there’ll be a problem if the detached sticker is provided with the passport. You could consider gluing it back.
Now, if you’re applying for a visa through the embassy of the countries which issued that sticker, good luck.
Your passport has been damaged, by the standards set by the Bangladesh government:
Any willful damage to passport or unauthorized changes/corrections on a passport will render it invalid.
Removing a visa sticker is obviously an "unauthorized change", and therefore your passport is now invalid.
Yes. This passport is considered damaged, as you messed with the pages. You have to get a new passport, claiming it as damaged. You will be denied entry (except in Bangladesh). Or, may get a lengthy interrogation on why you did that (can happen when you try to enter or leave Bangaladesh). Safest option is to just replace the passport, before leaving the country.
Let me elaborate. Your country’s official notices a visa being torn up. What are you trying to hide? Did you visit Syria and joined ISIS? Or did you visit Israel for a business meeting? Usually a person not wanting to have a record of visiting a country means a very suspicious thing, as border agents are concerned.
Ok, let’s consider the case where you are applying for a visa. The officer will definitely see this page and will conclude that you are trying to hide something and will deny your visa automatically, as you are deemed risky. See the linked question for an actual case.
Personally, some of my entry seals were damaged in my old passport due to water damage from rain. I had great difficulty convincing immigration official to leave the country, even though it was clearly evident that it was an accident. I replaced the passport before the next trip.
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