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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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| it now costs around 84 dollars to get new passport pages if you are american citizen, do you really want to pay that because a bank insists on stamping your passport when it is not needed?.' |
Has that happened to you or anyone you know? YOu being denied entry to a country because a Korean bank stamped your passport? |
It costs a lot of money to add clean pages to your passport. |
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air76
Joined: 13 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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| naturegirl321 wrote: |
| mm wrote: |
| it now costs around 84 dollars to get new passport pages if you are american citizen, do you really want to pay that because a bank insists on stamping your passport when it is not needed?.' |
Has that happened to you or anyone you know? YOu being denied entry to a country because a Korean bank stamped your passport? |
He might be talking about pages being used up unnecessarily...especially when you live overseas and need full blank pages for work visas every year, it can be a pain if the bank uses up 2-3 pages with their stupid stamps. My last two passports I had to get new ones YEARS before they expired simply because they were full and had no more full empty pages for full-page visa stickers.
Fortunately I have learned that you can request a 48 page passport instead of a 24 page one and it is the same price, so hopefully this passport will actually last the full 10 years. |
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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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| air76 wrote: |
| naturegirl321 wrote: |
| mm wrote: |
| it now costs around 84 dollars to get new passport pages if you are american citizen, do you really want to pay that because a bank insists on stamping your passport when it is not needed?.' |
Has that happened to you or anyone you know? YOu being denied entry to a country because a Korean bank stamped your passport? |
He might be talking about pages being used up unnecessarily...especially when you live overseas and need full blank pages for work visas every year, it can be a pain if the bank uses up 2-3 pages with their stupid stamps. My last two passports I had to get new ones YEARS before they expired simply because they were full and had no more full empty pages for full-page visa stickers.
Fortunately I have learned that you can request a 48 page passport instead of a 24 page one and it is the same price, so hopefully this passport will actually last the full 10 years. |
You know this for sure? How about posting a link? does that still make it OK for some Korean bank to stamp all over a page in your passport any time you want to legally wire funds? |
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air76
Joined: 13 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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| sojusucks wrote: |
| You know this for sure? How about posting a link? does that still make it OK for some Korean bank to stamp all over a page in your passport any time you want to legally wire funds? |
Do I know what for sure?
I never said that it was OK for Korean banks to stamp all over your passport....my bank doesn't do it. The first time I lived in Korea it was a problem, but I have never had an issue with KEB since we came back. |
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naturegirl321
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Home sweet home
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| Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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| sojusucks wrote: |
He might be talking about pages being used up unnecessarily...especially when you live overseas and need full blank pages for work visas every year, it can be a pain if the bank uses up 2-3 pages with their stupid stamps. My last two passports I had to get new ones YEARS before they expired simply because they were full and had no more full empty pages for full-page visa stickers.
Fortunately I have learned that you can request a 48 page passport instead of a 24 page one and it is the same price, so hopefully this passport will actually last the full 10 years. |
The passport fee is a lot more than $84. I got a new one in 2007 and it was $90, prices have been raised, again.  It's now $110.
Luckily, with the chip they put in the passports, they now offer 52 pages for frequent travellers, no extra charge. The new chip passports aren't 24 pages either, they're 32. If you travel in the US, and cross borders by land, you should check out the passport card, it's another way to save pages in your passport book.
Also, adding pages is free and you can do that twice. So if you're running out of pages, you can get up to 48 pages added. Not sure why you had to get a new one, I've always used up all 24 pages and have always added more for free. Got pages added after two years for the first. Changed my name and got a new passport, then two years later, I had to get pages added. No way would I pay for another passport just because I ran out of pages. Here in Seoul, you don't even have to go to the embassy, just post it.
About requesting a 48 page passport, maybe it's a little known secret, but before there were biometric passports, all you had to do was request it when you went to renew your passport. A friend of mine got 48 pages added. You simply tell the person at the consulate. Then when you got it back, you'd have 48 pages. Simple and free. If you have doubts, you could call the embassy or consulate. But like I said, now they're 32 and 52 pages. |
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mm
Joined: 01 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 12:13 am Post subject: |
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| naturegirl321 wrote: |
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| it now costs around 84 dollars to get new passport pages if you are american citizen, do you really want to pay that because a bank insists on stamping your passport when it is not needed?.' |
Has that happened to you or anyone you know? YOu being denied entry to a country because a Korean bank stamped your passport? |
I was just talking about adding new pages to your passport. I had to add new pages because the Chinese embassy refused to grant me a visa with only one remaining blank passport page. |
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runthegauntlet
Joined: 02 Dec 2007
Location: the southlands.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 5:27 am Post subject: |
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| naturegirl321 wrote: |
Also, adding pages is free and you can do that twice.
The passport fee is a lot more than $84. I got a new one in 2007 and it was $90, prices have been raised, again. It's now $110.
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Nope. It used to be free to add pages. Now it's $82. To get a new passport it's jumped to $140 +$25 processing fee....
Ouch.
http://travel.state.gov/passport/fees/fees_837.html
These fees became effective this year. |
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naturegirl321
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Home sweet home
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| Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 5:34 am Post subject: |
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Glad I got free pages added in April then. As for blank pages, all guidebooks say that you need at least 3. I wouldn't travel with less. Or with a passport that's valid less than 6 months.
Hnere's one US embassy's info about the pages. http://estonia.usembassy.gov/feechanges.html They claim it takes just as many resources. I highly doubt it. I had mine done in Shanghai in five minutes. They pasted it in and stamped it.
I guess the only good news is that you can get a 52 page passport for the same price as a 32 one.
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Q: Why is the Government charging me such a high fee to add passport pages, something previously provided for free?
A: The cost of service study found that adding visa pages to an existing passport book requires nearly the same resources as producing a new passport book. The study found that the cost of producing the pages, placing them in the book in a secure manner by trained personnel, and completing the required security checks costs the U.S. Government $82.48. The Department will charge $82 for this service. Please note that frequent travelers can request a 52-page passport book at no additional cost when they renew, potentially saving them from the additional cost of visa pages. |
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runthegauntlet
Joined: 02 Dec 2007
Location: the southlands.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 5:37 am Post subject: |
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| sojusucks wrote: |
| air76 wrote: |
| naturegirl321 wrote: |
| mm wrote: |
| it now costs around 84 dollars to get new passport pages if you are american citizen, do you really want to pay that because a bank insists on stamping your passport when it is not needed?.' |
Has that happened to you or anyone you know? YOu being denied entry to a country because a Korean bank stamped your passport? |
He might be talking about pages being used up unnecessarily...especially when you live overseas and need full blank pages for work visas every year, it can be a pain if the bank uses up 2-3 pages with their stupid stamps. My last two passports I had to get new ones YEARS before they expired simply because they were full and had no more full empty pages for full-page visa stickers.
Fortunately I have learned that you can request a 48 page passport instead of a 24 page one and it is the same price, so hopefully this passport will actually last the full 10 years. |
You know this for sure? How about posting a link? does that still make it OK for some Korean bank to stamp all over a page in your passport any time you want to legally wire funds? |
Your last question is totally out of left field and has absolutely nothing to do with what he was saying.
If you're looking for a link about extra pages when you get a new passport, here it is:
http://travel.state.gov/passport/correcting/add/add_850.html |
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runthegauntlet
Joined: 02 Dec 2007
Location: the southlands.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 5:38 am Post subject: |
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| naturegirl321 wrote: |
Glad I got free pages added in April then. As for blank pages, all guidebooks say that you need at least 3. I wouldn't travel with less. Or with a passport that's valid less than 6 months. |
Yep. Got mine in Feb.
Eh, guidebooks. Take with a grain of salt. Though the more than six months thing seems to be standard. |
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Man on Street
Joined: 28 Aug 2010
Location: In the Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 5:40 am Post subject: |
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| I mentioned earlier that people should send money through internet banking. However, is anyone else here able to do that? My girl told me today that when we set it up at the bank that the teller said foreigners aren't supposed to be able to do it but that because of some fluke I was able to and she decided to be nice and go on with it. I don't think any of my coworkers are able to do it. In fact, she (my girl) said that there have been a lot of Japanese (and other workers) over the years who laundered money in Korea and that stamping passports is supposed to be some measure against it. Don't ask me how, but that's what she heard. |
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naturegirl321
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Home sweet home
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| Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 5:46 am Post subject: |
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| I mentioned earlier that people should send money through internet banking. However, is anyone else here able to do that? My girl told me today that when we set it up at the bank that the teller said foreigners aren't supposed to be able to do it but that because of some fluke I was able to and she decided to be nice and go on with it. I don't think any of my coworkers are able to do it. In fact, she (my girl) said that there have been a lot of Japanese (and other workers) over the years who laundered money in Korea and that stamping passports is supposed to be some measure against it. Don't ask me how, but that's what she heard. |
You can do it. Try KEB.
About guidebooks: if they tell me to have 3 blank pages and 6 months left on my passport, I'd do it rather than risk not getting into the country  |
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runthegauntlet
Joined: 02 Dec 2007
Location: the southlands.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 5:57 am Post subject: |
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About guidebooks: if they tell me to have 3 blank pages and 6 months left on my passport, I'd do it rather than risk not getting into the country |
Of course, nothing wrong with going along with guidelines. But guidebooks are wrong a lot. Best to check with the actual governmental agency if the situation is a pressing one and determining whether or not you're going to go to a country with one or two passport pages is dependent upon the correct information.
Not applicable, but a general correlation: I've been to two or three countries where you're supposed to have two blank pages available for visas only to have officials stamp used pages. Worked out nicely, I guess, in terms of saving space, but the paying of a $100 for a blurry stamp was, eh, a let down. |
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naturegirl321
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 6:09 am Post subject: |
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| runthegauntlet wrote: |
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About guidebooks: if they tell me to have 3 blank pages and 6 months left on my passport, I'd do it rather than risk not getting into the country |
Of course, nothing wrong with going along with guidelines. But guidebooks are wrong a lot. Best to check with the actual governmental agency if the situation is a pressing one and determining whether or not you're going to go to a country with one or two passport pages is dependent upon the correct information.
Not applicable, but a general correlation: I've been to two or three countries where you're supposed to have two blank pages available for visas only to have officials stamp used pages. Worked out nicely, I guess, in terms of saving space, but the paying of a $100 for a blurry stamp was, eh, a let down. |
Why did you have to pay $100? Korea's one of those for saving space. They're determined to only stamp on the page next to my visa, so they're on their 7th stamp on one page. I've noticed that 4 to a page isn't that necessary, I've got pages with 6 and 8 stamps. |
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runthegauntlet
Joined: 02 Dec 2007
Location: the southlands.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 8:57 am Post subject: |
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| naturegirl321 wrote: |
| runthegauntlet wrote: |
| naturegirl321 wrote: |
About guidebooks: if they tell me to have 3 blank pages and 6 months left on my passport, I'd do it rather than risk not getting into the country |
Of course, nothing wrong with going along with guidelines. But guidebooks are wrong a lot. Best to check with the actual governmental agency if the situation is a pressing one and determining whether or not you're going to go to a country with one or two passport pages is dependent upon the correct information.
Not applicable, but a general correlation: I've been to two or three countries where you're supposed to have two blank pages available for visas only to have officials stamp used pages. Worked out nicely, I guess, in terms of saving space, but the paying of a $100 for a blurry stamp was, eh, a let down. |
Why did you have to pay $100? Korea's one of those for saving space. They're determined to only stamp on the page next to my visa, so they're on their 7th stamp on one page. I've noticed that 4 to a page isn't that necessary, I've got pages with 6 and 8 stamps. |
The Visa for Tanzania was a 100 bucks. Just a stamp, though.
Yeah, Korea is great with that. Have 6 or 7 stamps on one page.
Bulgaria is nice too, they literally stamped the top and bottom corners of one of my filled up pages. |
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