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Old Jan 30, 2018 | 9:05 pm
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Originally Posted by DCP2016
I was recently looking into the idea of getting a passport card, and realized that it only works for land/sea border crossings and not by air. I was wondering why this is the case, seeing how the book is outdated and no one wants to carry something that big when all your information can be stored on a card. I guess my question is, why do I still need a passport book when flying across borders?
Visas still exist. And plenty of countries stamp passports.

We have 48 page passports. An older set has extra pages. At the time we were making yearly or more trips to a visa-required country that only gave single-entry visas.

These days, same country, less travel, long term visas--we will probably be halfway through our 48 pages when the time runs out.
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