What to do when you run out of blank pages on a passport?

[aphex]

Just realized i'm down to 4 open spaces (effectively 1 page) on my passport. Do I have to buy a new one? Whats the general procedure?

 

[bigrash]

yup, you gotta get a new one.

 

[abaez]

A few years ago I just sent it in and they added like 22 pages to the current one. This was before the new delays so I'm not sure if it's changed now or not.

 

[wiredspider]

Ooo where did you go?

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: wiredspider
Ooo where did you go?

europe and central america a few times

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: bigrash
yup, you gotta get a new one.

No.

Hopefully when you run out, you'll be overseas. Then you can just go to the American embassy, go to the Citizen's section, and ask them to put in another 22 (or so) pages, for free.

If you're in the US...you have to mail it in, and pay money.

I ran out a year ago. I found out because I was getting a visa, and they didn't have a place to put it. Meaning that I had to do the whole visa thing over again, after getting the pages put in.

At least I didn't have to mail it in.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: bigrash
yup, you gotta get a new one.

No.

Hopefully when you run out, you'll be overseas. Then you can just go to the American embassy, go to the Citizen's section, and ask them to put in another 22 (or so) pages, for free.

If you're in the US...you have to mail it in, and pay money.

I ran out a year ago. I found out because I was getting a visa, and they didn't have a place to put it. Meaning that I had to do the whole visa thing over again, after getting the pages put in.

At least I didn't have to mail it in.

Yeah, its kind of messed up. While I was in Korea, my passport expired, so I just went to the embassy, and it only took a couple of hours to get me a new passport. In American, it takes weeks.

 

[Regs]

I just had to pay over 120 dollars on my new passport . Not because I needed more pages though but because I had to apply for a new one.

Expensive trip so far.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

run it through the washing machine...

it washed out a couple pages of stamps for me