Originally Posted by
eigenvector
What a load of garbage... I have had slight water damage on every passport I've ever owned, no immigration officer cares as long as the photo page and any applicable visas are not damaged. Passport Canada even refused to replace one of my water-damaged passports on the grounds that it wasn't sufficiently damaged (many of the stamps are blurred to the point of illegibility or have migrated to pages they weren't originally on).
Most of my stamps are illegible after 5 years. For some reason the US DHS ones are the worst.
Interesting how "the flight was full". Maybe this is another new cost cutting measure, if the flights full thou must have status AND a passport in perfect condition.