Originally Posted by
GUWonder
Most won't care, but I've seen situations where some airline, airline contractor or government employees made issues about removed staples in passport pages, paper clip indentations on visa pages, staples in passport pages, and so on. But these are the exception rather than the norm, and it is a sign of dealing with a person whose thinking is probably excessively suspicious.
Slightly OT, but I was leaving FRA with a very full passport. I had been there overnight because of a cancelled flight.
The immigration agent flipped through my passport, asked me when I'd arrived, then flipped it back to me and said he couldn't find any entry stamp for that visit. I was slightly shocked, but fortunately for me, I knew (within a couple pages) where it had been stamped on arrival because I knew where the few remaining blank spaces were.
Awkward couple moments until I found it, though.
Oddly enough, while this was happening, a guy next to me was getting very excited. He was going back to somewhere in Africa. The agent was telling him there was no way he could have entered the country with the passport he was presenting because there was no visa? stamp? The guy had a letter and was trying to explain that he'd used the letter somehow to get in. The agent refused to look at the letter and finally just stamped the guy out.