Originally Posted by
eng3
Many asian countries still stamp.
Just goto europe (schengen) and you'll get a stamp. Even after going through the e-gate, they still stamp it. Then when you leave again. I know with the new system you don't need one but that system's been delayed many times. Not quite as bad as real id. Sometimes on a single trip I may enter and exit schengen more than once and lose a whole page. If you take the train or bus across, I notice the guards take care to stamp and everyone has 8-10 stamps on a page. I guess the people that ride some of those cross frequently. But going through the airport, it's mostly 4. Once you're down to 1-2 pages, then they might start to care but it’s too late.
My point was that the number of instances where a stamp is required is decreasing.
For instance Singapore just went all e-Gate and no more stamps.
And while Japan still gets you the stamp inbound, outbound has EU will go stamp-less in the future.
UK also is stampless.
Taking my own travel patterns, if I almost filled up the extra pages passport before with my old passport, with the new passport, many of the stamps will not be there anymore, so will likely end up with left over blank pages.