Originally Posted by
SDF_Traveler
I think I'll borrow your idea clipping the pages so that only the cover page can be seen. My original passport is full, I have an extra pages insert, and even that is starting to get filled up.
Too often a TSA screener will start flipping through the pages looking for the cover and then starts looking at the stamps. I've had other TSO's sit and flip through all of the stamps and one even remarked, "Gee, what are those postage stamp looking things in your passport?" ....
A small paperclip it is...
I think I'll give the paperclip idea a try next time my passport book gets full of stamps. When I had my older (now expired) book, it was constantly pawed through by TSA and Gate agents. I've even been mildly "interrogated" by those who, after seeing the stamps, refuse to believe the passport belongs to me. Before I renewed my passport, mine was an older style Canadian book that still had the laminated page over photo look. It was a perfectly valid document, but quite a many immigration and customs officers refused to believe it was real. The most annoying time came when I was flying Alitalia home and a gate agent pawed through my book. She saw all the stamps and then proceeded to interrogate me about my name, my birthdate, where I was born, how old I was, where the passport was issued,what visas were in it and then said to me with a snarl on her face, "you've been to a lot of places".
As for the DL, I tried using just my DL flying domestically in the USA. They wouldn't accept my Canadian license stating that it was only for US Citizens