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Dec 6, 2005 | 3:22 am

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Originally Posted by chichow

So I had not been to Germany for a couple of years and in that time I had switched to a new passport (thanks 9/11

not!) anyways, the immigration officer at FRA looked through the ton of stamps in my passport and not spotting Germany asked if I had visited before. I suspect his display showed I did. I said I did, but he was wondering then why there were no German passport stamps. I told him that I usually come in through CDG and most of the time they don't...

He stopped me half way through my explaination stamped me and waved me through. I could tell from his body language what he was thinking of the French

Different cultures and free movement through the EU. Fun and Interesting Times

The French are "great" about not stamping.

SIS (II) which Germany and other European countries (especially Schengen ones) use seems to now increasingly query and try to match entry and exit; however, for a variety of reasons, it still has issues.

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