Chinese visa requires one whole page (4 stamp areas). Never heard of anywhere wanting 4 pages.

The visa for Brazil also requires a full page; A US visa (for those needing one) also requires a full page.

Does anybody know why US immigration does not stamp US passports?

Because they enjoy keeping us on our toes as to whether they'll stamp it on a given trip? ;)

Other full-pagers:
-new Japan work visas (esp. Specialist in Humanities) - these also require photo
-Australian work visa (also later conversion to a 7 month student/visitor visa).

There is no immigration control when you leave UK (ok they sometimes have passport control booths and sometimes they are even manned but they don't stamp your passport). Where you've got your second stamp? I have departed UK for more than 50 times and never got a stamp on departure.
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My passport has been stamped every single time I've arrived back in the U.S.

Indonesia, Russia, Cambodia all require a full page. Sometimes they'll stamp the full page, sometimes they'll stamp the page next to it (Indonesia in particular). South Africa only took up one page, including entry and exit stamps.

They're not supposed to stamp the amendment pages, but they do. PRG seems to be the worst about this.

I just looked, and noticed that Indonesia does use a whole page for the visa itself; they then stamp entries and exits on the opposite page.

When my passport was not very full they did this, but once fuller stamped on top of the visa to save space ^

Sorry, in my hypothetical I meant transiting the UK twice, coming and going from Botswana via Zimbabwe and South Africa.

Is too. :p

Countries are not supposed to place visas, entry stamps or exit stamps on the Amendments and Endorsements pages. Some countries might if the rest of the passport is filled and you beg, but you don't want to be the person trying to make a flight on the afternoon your immigration officer is being evaluated as part of her promotion review.

If you are a U.S. citizen, just walk into the nearest U.S. embassy or consulate when you're abroad. The staff will add additional Visa pages in a few minutes for free. Plus, the first newly added page will bear the embossed seal of that particular embassy or consulate. If you receive additional pages from the U.S. embassy in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, for example, you are in one select group.

Do NOT add Visa pages by mailing your passport to the State Department's National Passport Processing unit unless you are prepared to wait. While the service is free, it took them about five weeks to add pages when I mailed them my passport in Spring 2006. The process can be expedited for a $60 fee (plus overnight delivery charges both ways), but the wait can still be around two weeks.

Wow, what embassies are you using? I've never gotten it done in less than 90 minutes.

I am not a citizen, so I have a foreign passport with a US. Visa. I do believe the border officer prefer two adjoining pages, as he almost always use the adjoining page for the I-94.. And then, the GAs or whoever who take them, rip it out, so that adjoining page is quite good looking..

Various embassies and border officers have stapled a lot of receipts, envelopes and other stuff in the back of my passport. Looking forward to getting a new one, but that means a new visa application and lots of time at an embassy abroad (I can't get a visa while inside the states, I believe)..

Oh well..

I had pages added last summer in Nicosia, Cyprus. Took about 20 minutes total. Took longer to get through security and fill out the application form than it did to actually add the pages.

China also uses a full page for the visas. I think this is relatively common.

Not sure about the US, but the common sense thing is to have your visa transfered from your old to your new passport. Japan did that free of charge for my Japanese visa. When applying for the new passport I just made sure my old passport would not be invalidated because it had a valid visa in it. There apparently even was a regulation for that because the guy just said "oh, visa, no problem".

HTB.