So, 6 24-page inserts (assuming you got two sets each time)? +your initial 24 or 48 pages? That's a total of at least 168 pages! Can you post a picture of that beast?

Aren't the new passports with extra pages, 52 pages and not 48?

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I assume there are still some American kids who get 3 or more stamps a week during the course of the school year.

72 pages isn't that much. There are at least three of us on FT who have had double that filled up in our US passports.

That's great! There might be many people who must be having passports with more than 96 pages.

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/jet-set...ry?id=11882482

Its great that he travels so often with his family, after all you get to live only once and you should be living life to the fullest.

My first UK passport was in 1972, then 1982, then 1992, 2002, 2012 so I am on my 5th. Each time I pay extra to get a 48 page passport. That has always been enough - just. I ran my last one close. A new stamp each time into the USA plus two visas and then heavy air travel between the US and Canada can add quite a lot in a short period of time. Using BOG as a base and flying between South American countries can add a lot too. 48 pages is my best and largest.

My previous US passport had over 200 pages, but I'm still sure there must be people who have more. When I would run into a consulate that refused to add more pages, I just said "no problem" and went to another consulate who would. As someone posted above, Hong Kong used to be good for this. Shanghai and Amsterdam too.

My current passport is at 96 pages and while it's probably harder to add pages these days, I'm sure I could find some consular officer somewhere to pop some more in if I end up needing it.

I recall you, hfly and I have all mentioned having a current or previous US passport with well over 100 pages full of stamps. All three of us have probably done this additional page insert done outside of the US when getting new inserts was free at US consulates/embassies.

Compared to several years ago, I'm less likely now to get to another US passport with over 100 pages, as the cost to add additional pages has become high enough that I would consider going for a renewal US passport instead.

Though this FT thread did inspire me to write about it too...

mmmmmm- thats a big one.

What's "Dragon I"? A casino?

Yes, they are 52 pages, as per http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/212241.pdf

Are there any other countries, other than the USA, that will add extra visa pages to existing passports?

@BuildingMyBento -- brilliant! Makes me jealous.

No casinos in Hong Kong, but plenty of clubs... dragon-i is pretty much agreed on as the highest end club in HK.

Not sure.

140 countries have signed onto the push to cap passport validity to five years. Most of those that have reduced their validity period down to no more the five years don't allow for adding pages and those that did have all stopped it in so far as I've not seen them allow it anymore. The US has maintained a ten year general validity period for ordinary adult passports and doesn't seem as likely to kill that off than it is to kill of the additional page inserts -- but neither is scheduled for elimination even as the U.S. is an advocate against other countries allowing for page inserts or allowing for passport validity periods to be greater than 5 years. It's rather amusing when what's good for the goose is not considered good for the gander.

It used to be more common to see multiple passport books bound together than to see additional passport page inserts in non-US passports. It probably still is, for the latter seems to have largely dropped off the radar.

OK, so I'll fill up the 52 page passport in about 3.5 years from issue (Despite living in SG, so not getting stamped there, OZ, US, or a couple of others through Global Entry and it's reciprocity). Why not just get a new 52 page one? There is something kind of cool about having the fattest, but I don't want to deal with it, and frankly mine looks like it's been through the washing machine about 20 times (though it hasn't) in only 2.7 years.

I assume that most people in this boat travel for work, so getting the new passport should be expensable, and especially since page per page it's cheaper, why not?!?