Passport Security Stickers
Apr 5, 2011, 9:58 pm
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I very much want to keep my passport intact for the ten years of its validity, so keep it inside a passport holder at all times.
I fscking hate when anyone tries to stick or staple stuff outside or inside my passport.
The only exception is immigration agents, because you don't mess with them.
I request security screeners to not stick anything on the outside of my passport. Same goes for baggage check-in who (rarely) attempt to stick the baggage tags on the back of my passport.
For I-94 forms, I carefully remove them myself in advance before check-in. Check-in agents tend to tear them off of the passport without any care.
I fscking hate when anyone tries to stick or staple stuff outside or inside my passport.
The only exception is immigration agents, because you don't mess with them.
I request security screeners to not stick anything on the outside of my passport. Same goes for baggage check-in who (rarely) attempt to stick the baggage tags on the back of my passport.
For I-94 forms, I carefully remove them myself in advance before check-in. Check-in agents tend to tear them off of the passport without any care.
Apr 5, 2011, 10:00 pm
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Apr 5, 2011, 10:03 pm
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Someone mentioned stickers on the front of one's passport too. The only place I have consistently experienced this is SIN, from where I initiated travel about 8 times (to the US) during the last half of last year. OTOH, that is the only station I can think of where they remove stickers from passports that they have previously applied.
Apr 5, 2011, 10:31 pm
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Explains why those stickers are also on the top surface of my roll-a-board near the handle.
May 9, 2013, 7:20 am
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Rules around ICTS stickers
I believe that, physically, the stickers sometimes affixed by ICTS peel off your passport as long as you do it right away. But is there any reason (legally or hassle-wise) that I should not peel it off my passport immediately and affix it to my boarding pass instead?
As far as I can tell, the ICTS stickers (or whoever does the security questioning) have nothing to do with my passport; security or gate people just need to see that I got the sticker. So, does it matter if it's on the boarding pass instead of the passport? And, is there any issue with my doing this myself, or must I ask the sticker person to do it?
As far as I can tell, the ICTS stickers (or whoever does the security questioning) have nothing to do with my passport; security or gate people just need to see that I got the sticker. So, does it matter if it's on the boarding pass instead of the passport? And, is there any issue with my doing this myself, or must I ask the sticker person to do it?
May 9, 2013, 11:53 am
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I sometimes remove them from my passport after my flight takes off.
Other times I keep them on as a reminder to the person whom I will encounter again.
I wouldn't generally recommend removing them prior to take-off.
Other times I keep them on as a reminder to the person whom I will encounter again.
I wouldn't generally recommend removing them prior to take-off.
May 9, 2013, 3:29 pm
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I have had some Europe to US flights on non-US carriers that involved ICTS screeners' questions and stickers. BA from Italy via LHR and a couple of other carriers but it's been very infrequent for me.
May 10, 2013, 1:58 am
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Thank you both for your replies.
I had not realized that the stickers were limited to flights into the U.S. on U.S. carriers. It seems like I've gotten stickers on my passport in different European airports and I hadn't noticed a pattern. Perhaps this was someone other than ICTS.
I will just leave them in place to be on the safe side!
I had not realized that the stickers were limited to flights into the U.S. on U.S. carriers. It seems like I've gotten stickers on my passport in different European airports and I hadn't noticed a pattern. Perhaps this was someone other than ICTS.
I will just leave them in place to be on the safe side!
May 10, 2013, 2:25 am
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I have no problem at all. I answer the security questions at ticket counter & at the gates as well. She asked me that she have more question for me. She escorted me to gate counter and she wrote it down in back of boarding pass. I answer the question and I bought a bottled water. I can understand it very clearly. Then she let me inside the aircraft.
May 10, 2013, 11:42 am
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Thank you both for your replies.
I had not realized that the stickers were limited to flights into the U.S. on U.S. carriers. It seems like I've gotten stickers on my passport in different European airports and I hadn't noticed a pattern. Perhaps this was someone other than ICTS.
I will just leave them in place to be on the safe side!
I had not realized that the stickers were limited to flights into the U.S. on U.S. carriers. It seems like I've gotten stickers on my passport in different European airports and I hadn't noticed a pattern. Perhaps this was someone other than ICTS.
I will just leave them in place to be on the safe side!
May 10, 2013, 1:10 pm
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I've run across more than one US Immigration agents the took exception to seeing a sticker over the eagle on the passport & removed it on the spot
May 14, 2013, 2:16 pm
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For no reason other than entertainment value, I've removed a bunch of ICTS stickers from old passports and it would take rather extensive forensic analysis to realize that I've done so.