Originally Posted by
frank_10b
My son just arrived at Malpensa for his study abroad program and he says that the officer neither scanned or stamped his passport (he just briefly looked at it and gave it back). Is this unusual?
I am wondering if he is ever questioned (in either italy or elsewhere in schengen) as to why there is no evidence of his arrival into europe, whether his story that it wasn't stamped or scanned will be credible?
They don't have to "scan" it. Opening up the cover will allow the security chip in the passport to be read without need of "swiping" it like used to be done.