Originally Posted by
florin
That is simply not true! Here are some official sources:
1. From
http://www.travel.state.gov/visa/tem...ypes_1262.html :
Unless previously canceled, a visa is valid until its expiration date. Therefore, if the traveler has a valid U.S. visa in an expired passport, do not remove the visa page from the expired passport. You may use it along with a new valid passport for travel and admission to the United States.
2. From the US Embassy Germany site (
http://germany.usembassy.gov/germany...t_expired.html)
If your passport containing a still valid visa has expired, you may travel with two passports - your expired passport containing the valid U.S. visa and your unexpired passport.
Also, my mother has traveled to the US with a 10-year visa on her old passport 9 times and NEVER had an issue. The last time was a month ago.
What I said is true. Nothing I said is invalidated by the above as I know all of that and more.
In the situation you noted the officials have
not marked the visa in the manner I indicated; the type of marking I mentioned, if applied, would render the above inapplicable for future entries. You are speaking oranges to my apples -- that or you are having trouble understanding these words of mine in that very post:
Originally Posted by GUWonder
if they make the entry I mentioned -- that is if they write down on your visa/visa page that your visa will not be accepted next time without a transfer or new issuance
and
Originally Posted by GUWonder
the normally accepted standard of traveling with the new passport and the expired passport with the valid visa
I suggest a more careful reading of my words if you don't want to cry wolf when there is no wolf. In other words, pay attention to the word
if and understand the meaning of
normally accepted standard.