Generic full page visa question
 

I recently visited Vietnam and had a good time. I had a full page one time use only visa. I'm pretty sure I will be going back to visit again in the future using the same passport.

Obviously I would need a new visa for the next trip. When you apply for a new visa do they cover up the old one, or do you start a nice collection of full page visas?

I don't want to get into the details of multi-entry visas and whatnot. Let's assume I would be visiting infrequently and not able to utilize a multi-entry visa.

So basically, does your passport start filling up with a bunch of one page visas? Or can they change your old one, or put the new one over the old one? Do different countries do it differently?
Thanks

Yes, another full page.

A fair amount of countries have a full or half page sticker, so it's always good to have extra pages. When I got my latest passport, 4 years ago, I got the 48 page version. I filled it up, and had to get another 24 pages put in earlier this year.

Off the top of my head, countries that I've been to that require a full page: Russia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam and China.

It's been a few years but I always received an additional one-page Visa. The ones issued from Washington were printed & the ones from San Francisco hand-written. With the additional entry & exit regular stamp per visit it really does waste a lot of passport real estate :td:

In Asia, also Mongolia and Myanmar use a full page (assuming a US/EU passport here).

Vietnam and nearly all other countries will never cover up an old visa with a new one, assume it's new real estate in the passport every time. If you hold a US passport, you can get 24 pages added for free when you get low on new pages--and it's easier and quicker to do this at a US Embassy when you are actually overseas, rather than do it in the US. Plan accordingly. For new passports or renewals, best to ask for the 48-page version upfront (no extra charge over the 24 pager) on the application.

no countries will cover up the used visa page .

But some countries visas are very easy to take off. (China)

I assure you that none of the many Chinese visas I have in my current and previous passports will budge. Nor any of those from other countries. Removing visas is never a good idea and could come back to cause you problems later. Again, best strategy is to keep track of your remaining free pages and upcoming travel, and plot out when to get more pages added.

At least US citizens have the option of getting pages added (and for free)--many other countries won't do add-ons and require you to get a completely new passport.

Nor my Chinese Visa. Except for the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh (I think that's the one, it's one of the breakaway regions diplomatically unrecognized by everyone) I've never heard of a removable visa, nor have I ever had Passport stamps covered up by Visas much less visas obscured by visas.

If you ask nice Indonesian immigration agents will often put a new Indonesia Visa sticker over an old Indonesia Visa sticker to save pages.

Hand written Visa??? Never seen such a thing. All the VN Visas I have are all printed, all look the same, whether they came from DC or Vietnam.