Get stamped out. If you were stamped in

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If you go abroad to Europe by boat or any other means and the person in the kiosk stamps you a visa in your passport make sure you get stamped out. If not and you later travel to some pedantic country such as Germany you may be refused entry as you passport will probably say you have been more than 90 days. Yes I know about all the scanners and other kit that is not working so well but they are still stamping at the mo.

I know of a few people who have fell foul of this issue. Them blokes in those little cubicals don’t always care and sometimes their ink is very dim
 
Just waiting to see how all the scanning machines are maintained at French ports - it’s fine at Lanzarotte airport or Tenerife where spotted shiny new machines even if what looked like too few but I guess at French small marina it’s going to be more of a challenge to maintain the machines ?
 
I've been stopped and queried over a lack of EU entry stamp on my UK passport flying out of Munich Airport - the border guard leafed through the entire passport and looked pretty chuffed when he didn't find an entry stamp. Thought he had a Schengen overstayer. I told him I was a dual citizen, produced my German passport and he seemed a bit miffed and waved me through.
 
I have a stamp in my PP from a German Immigration desk who missed that I am a EU resident (Latvia) ... she then just said "oops ..... just ignore it ... "

I asked her what would happen if another sees it - because its in a Brit PP .... she just repeated ignore it !

Its never been stamped out.

BUT I agree with previous - get the exit stamp as well ... just to make sure.
 
And check what the stamp actually says! I had an interesting wait trying to check out of germany whilst they got increasingly animated in german about my passport - turned out the incoming stamp had the wrong date - and according to it I still hadn't arrived! My passport now has extra stamps declaring the error/correction. To be fair they were very courteous and pleasant to me, but also clearly chuffed to have found an incompetent colleague...
 
Bigplumbs said:
If you go abroad to Europe by boat or any other means and the person in the kiosk stamps you a visa in your passport make sure you get stamped out. If not and you later travel to some pedantic country such as Germany you may be refused entry as you passport will probably say you have been more than 90 days. Yes I know about all the scanners and other kit that is not working so well but they are still stamping at the mo.

I know of a few people who have fell foul of this issue. Them blokes in those little cubicals don’t always care and sometimes their ink is very dim
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Scanners working fine for me on my 3 trips since they started operation.

Not just a pedantic country. If you get an overstay stamp from the EU, don't expect to go on holiday to the USA or Canada any time soon.
 
Baggywrinkle said:
I've been stopped and queried over a lack of EU entry stamp on my UK passport flying out of Munich Airport - the border guard leafed through the entire passport and looked pretty chuffed when he didn't find an entry stamp. Thought he had a Schengen overstayer. I told him I was a dual citizen, produced my German passport and he seemed a bit miffed and waved me through.
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Oh, that seems to answer a question Ive been meaning to ask. I have Irish & UK passports. So far Ive always used the same passport on entry & exit. Purely for selfish reasons, could I for example enter France using my Irish passport but return to UK using my UK passport. Simple question which I should already know the answer to!
 
When leaving or entering to travel between the EU and UK, if I end up in front of a border guard wielding a stamp, I now present both passports - then they just wave you through without stamping anything.

On the machines I use the passport of the country I am entering.

Currently both my passports are free of any stamps, and because I have a German Passport and a German ID card I can always get back into the EU because they expire on different dates, expiry of the UK passport needs a bit more planning to avoid the nonsense with ETA and potential rejection at the Airline check-in of an expired UK passport - forcing travel on the German one.

... but I can smell the sovereignty every time I use my UK passport. ;)
 
Wandering Star said:
Oh, that seems to answer a question Ive been meaning to ask. I have Irish & UK passports. So far Ive always used the same passport on entry & exit. Purely for selfish reasons, could I for example enter France using my Irish passport but return to UK using my UK passport. Simple question which I should already know the answer to!
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At check in for the airline, use the passport you used to book the flight.

At exit border check give them both to avoid stamps.

At entry use the passport of the country you are entering on the passport scanners, but present both if you end up at a border guard, who should just wave you through.

Presenting both prevents scrutiny of any stamps which may have overrun, have the wrong date, or might be missing.
 
All sounds even more confusing if you have duel passports.

This thread might be useful to some people I wonder how long it will be before the thread police ban, move or close it 💁🙈
 
Wandering Star said:
Oh, that seems to answer a question Ive been meaning to ask. I have Irish & UK passports. So far Ive always used the same passport on entry & exit. Purely for selfish reasons, could I for example enter France using my Irish passport but return to UK using my UK passport. Simple question which I should already know the answer to!
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I think you could just use your Irish passport for both? Entitles you to free movement within the EU and the Common Travel Area?
 
On our trip to Dunkerque, we arrived long after the chaps with the stamp machine had gone home.
Due to weather our return was bought forward by several days.
Border control arrived en mass to do the business.
The chaps sighed when our passports were presented sans any entry stamps.
No problem, promptly adjusted their entry stamp machine to back the date we alleged we arrived and then stamped the passport again with a later date their departures stamp machine.
For those interested, the ink on one device Red and on the other Black.
Taking back control. :ROFLMAO:
 
oldgit said:
On our trip to Dunkerque, we arrived long after the chaps with the stamp machine had gone home.
Due to weather our return was bought forward by several days.
Border control arrived en mass to do the business.
The chaps sighed when our passports were presented sans any entry stamps.
No problem, promptly adjusted their entry stamp machine to back the date we alleged we arrived and then stamped the passport again with a later date their departures stamp machine.
For those interested, the ink on one device Red and on the other Black.
Taking back control. :ROFLMAO:
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Not going to happen with the scanners though, they're huge and you won't be able to roll the date back.
 
My passports have over 50 Russian entry and exit stamps. To the credit of the Russian border police, the in and out stamps were all side by side, the right way up, in the right order. The stamps had to accompany my Russian tax return to prove days in Russia which was always easy to do. Compare this to entering the EU via Amsterdam airport, all over the place.
 
RunAgroundHard said:
My passports have over 50 Russian entry and exit stamps. To the credit of the Russian border police, the in and out stamps were all side by side, the right way up, in the right order. The stamps had to accompany my Russian tax return to prove days in Russia which was always easy to do. Compare this to entering the EU via Amsterdam airport, all over the place.
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Given what the Russians are up to at the moment I am not sure many will be impressed with their ability to stamp paper. Or indeed you for going there
 
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