Hi,

I've been looking for a tight fit clear plastic cover for a very long time! Well, today, I searched for it once again and I found three different ebay auctions that sell these covers. They sell them for about 4 dollars each. I know, it's a little expencive for a piece of plastic but given how hard it is to find them, I think $4 is ok.

If just like me you've been looking for one of these covers for a long time, just go to ebay and type in: "clear plastic passport cover". I ordered three for myslef.

I hope that after I put my passport in the plastic cover, those security goons that work for american airlines in Europe will just put their stickers on the plastic cover. I am really sick of my passport cover getting always more sticky due to those stickers they use. Those stickers use really strong glue!

You might find that those security goons and immigration people will ask you to take it out of the cover. Some won't but you will run into a few that want it out.

YMMV, but I always travel with my passport(s) in plastic covers, and as long as the data page is separate from the cover (which it will be in any biometric passport), I've never been requested to remove it.

Last year I obtained a clear plastic passport cover for $.99 at my local CVS. That was in conjuction with having them take my photos for passport use.

I actually gave up on it a while ago, because I was always asked to remove the passport, or they removed it. I though it was getting more wear and tear from being put in and out of it then just in my ticket wallet with everything else.

Though for protection from a few drops of a drink or something when filling out your entry forms on the return trip, they can't be beat.

Walgreens has these too. I lined it with a sheet of heavy aluminum as an additional shield for my new RFID PP.* If you only slip one PP cover into the longer of the two plastic holders on the clear cover, it holds very well, yet is instant off if you encounter the TSA Blacklight Inspector who wants to see its naked blue skin. Surprisingly little UV glows in my new PP, I'm a little disappointed. . .

*Snicker if you want, but since covering my PP with a Faraday Shield, I have not seen a single UN Black Invisible Helicopter outside my window, so it works.

I use the little magic liquid called Goo Gone right after every trip (if necessary). It's available at Walmart etc.

I got the 99 cent version at CVS too. I bought it at the photo counter.

How effective are those little stickers anyway? I recently saw someone that did not remove the old stickers. Their PP was covered with quite an assortment of them.

I've used the CVS ones and although they work, they are made of a pretty flimsy plastic.

I bought a couple of ones of ones in NRT that are made of a higher quality plastic and have easy access to the data page. They were about 300-400 yen a pop.

Actually I have yet to see an invisible helicopter of any color.

MisterNice