Originally Posted by
jezsik
If you apply for a new passport, do they keep your old passport or give it back to you? I'd hate to surrender mine because it holds so many memories! Also, if you have a five-year visa, what happens when your passport expires before the visa?
At least when I had to renew mine when the old one still had time on it, they "holed" the old passport when they gave me the new one(a machine turned it into swiss cheese style holes - still usable as a momento, but would never get through even the laxiest of security checks). My own bet about the visa is that you'd need to either renew it or transfer it. You'll have to ask the visa issuing country how to handle it.