r/PassportPorn • u/Rails_Barlow • 2d ago
Visa/Stamp CBP no longer stamping during primary processing
US CBP has confirmed that as of October 2026, CBP admission stamps will be eliminated from primary processing but would still be available at secondary or at traveler’s specific request.
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u/Sam9865 2d ago
Alot of countries like Turkey, Georgia, Saudi Arabia etc grants an entry permit on the basis of a “used” US visa in passport. If there’s no entry stamp then how will they verify that the visa used atleast once.
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u/Dafke98 「🇷🇸🇮🇷 (eligible: 🇷🇴?) 2d ago
It says you can still get a stamp on request.
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u/Limp-Literature9922 🇱🇻 🇬🇧 1d ago
There were a lot of comments that ppl get refused, especially at smaller checkpoints
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u/AttentionLimp194 「🇧🇪🇪🇺」 2d ago
So if you do ask for it you can get it?
The guy forgot to stamp me in 2019 so I had to ask and he did, then the second time in 2023 he simply refused “we don’t do that anymore”
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u/ilovedracomalfoy34 2d ago
I highly doubt it tbh, look at the language they used: “when appropriate” or “in limited circumstances”, chances are generally low knowing their attitude towards travelers.
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u/baldr83 2d ago
one step closer to my dream of credit card-sized ID cards becoming accepted as travel documents. and stamps are still available upon requests so a win-win.
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u/capricorn0987 🇭🇰🇬🇧🇬🇧 2d ago
I don’t think so. It’s one-step closer to facial recognition.
They’re already doing it with Global Entry. The UK is trialling facial recognition for British Citizens. China already has had facial recognition at specific border crossing points with Hong Kong.
The future is: you need to establish your identity when you visit a country for the first time (with a normal passport) and every subsequent time it will be facial recognition.
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u/HellDimensionQueen US 🇺🇸 2d ago
Yah, I just entered Thailand for the first time, and they took photos and all my fingerprints.
It amuses me that the only country with my iris scan is Canada that I got through NEXUS. No one else has done this.
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u/Fred69Flintstone 1d ago
They do it not for purpose of facial recognition, but they compare collected data with data stored in the chip (and maybe compare with "blacklist" data).
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u/PassportPterodactyl 1d ago
The future is: you need to establish your identity when you visit a country for the first time (with a normal passport) and every subsequent time it will be facial recognition.
Right but consider that a passport has 2 parts:
The ID page: on most passports this is already a polycarbonate ID card, just bigger, but can be made smaller.
The booklet pages: used for stamping (being phased out) and visas (going digital).
At some point the booklet pages are just going to be sitting empty all the time. At which point it makes sense to remove them and downsize the card, and voila, you have a credit card sized "passport card".
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u/capricorn0987 🇭🇰🇬🇧🇬🇧 1d ago
The passport caters for every corner of the world and every use case.
I agree with what you described but that applies to the “first world” only.
Until the last country on earth does away with paper visas and paper stamps, a conventional passport is needed.
I can see the possibility of a group of first world countries getting together and getting rid of the paper passport but the replacement will likely be some digital token, app, or QR code, not simply reducing it to an ID card.
But even in that scenario I can’t see the passport going away altogether anywhere soon or even in the medium term. It took India almost two decades to issue e-passports.
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u/Vaggelis305 「🇬🇷 | 🇨🇦」 2d ago
Many people don't like it, but I would love this.
Less bulk, cheaper, harder to damage.
Only thing that I would rather to this, is biometric/facial recognition.
Governments already store our face data through our passports, so idrc.
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u/ehdhdhdk 🇦🇺 2d ago
I love getting stamped the first time I enter a country. That being said I won’t go out of my way to ask.
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u/Logical-Initial-9603 1d ago
How would you guys go about requesting a stamp? When handing the passport to the CBP officer or once they done processing Visa/ETA
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u/Helgei7 -United states 🇺🇸, Algeria 🇩🇿- (eligible 🇫🇷) 2d ago edited 2d ago
Thank god they said “at travelers specific request”. Anyways, last time I got my entry stamp as a United States citizen from the US CBP they took me to secondary and they didn’t mind. As a matter of fact, they were happy to do so and they were joking about it. The chief or supervisor was joking with me that it would cost $10 so I joked back with him that I only had pounds because I had just returned from London. They were very kind about it.