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December 2nd, 2003, 08:30 PM
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Sunday I reentered America at LAX and US Immigration "entry stamped" my US Passport.
So Sunday I returned from Asia through LAX. Despite the holiday
weekend I got through Customs and Immigration very quickly. The funny part was the immigration agent put an entry stamp in my US Passport. They have never done this in the past and it seemed a little odd to me. Is this some sort of new policy? Just curious, it seems strange. Have they ever put an entry stamp in anyone else's US Passport? It's a first for me. I just picture some foreign agent somewhere questioning why I stamped into the country but never stamped out next time. 
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December 2nd, 2003, 08:36 PM
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Sunday I reentered America at LAX and US Immigration "entry stamped" my US Passport.
I've had it happen every now and then from Europe, I always believe it's a
guy having a lousy day because he always grunts and puts it on a precious clean page. @X. wrote in message ... So Sunday I returned from Asia through LAX. Despite the holiday weekend I got through Customs and Immigration very quickly. The funny part was the immigration agent put an entry stamp in my US Passport. They have never done this in the past and it seemed a little odd to me. Is this some sort of new policy? Just curious, it seems strange. Have they ever put an entry stamp in anyone else's US Passport? It's a first for me. I just picture some foreign agent somewhere questioning why I stamped into the country but never stamped out next time.
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December 2nd, 2003, 08:56 PM
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Sunday I reentered America at LAX and US Immigration "entrystamped" my US Passport.
*@X.* writes:
So Sunday I returned from Asia through LAX. Despite the holiday weekend I got through Customs and Immigration very quickly. The funny part was the immigration agent put an entry stamp in my US Passport. They have never done this in the past and it seemed a little odd to me. Is this some sort of new policy? Just curious, it seems strange. Have they ever put an entry stamp in anyone else's US Passport? It's a first for me. I just picture some foreign agent somewhere questioning why I stamped into the country but never stamped out next time. Perhaps I look more suspicious than most (?) but that's been the norm for me - I've probably got 15 or 20 of them over the years. ap -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
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December 2nd, 2003, 08:57 PM
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Sunday I reentered America at LAX and US Immigration "entry stamped" my US Passport.
@X. wrote in message ... So Sunday I returned from Asia through LAX. Despite the holiday weekend I got through Customs and Immigration very quickly. The funny part was the immigration agent put an entry stamp in my US Passport. They have never done this in the past and it seemed a little odd to me. Is this some sort of new policy? Just curious, it seems strange. Have they ever put an entry stamp in anyone else's US Passport? It's a first for me. I just picture some foreign agent somewhere questioning why I stamped into the country but never stamped out next time. We cleared immigration and customs at EWR from Rome. Our passports were also stamped, which happens to us from time to time.
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#5
December 2nd, 2003, 09:10 PM
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Sunday I reentered America at LAX and US Immigration "entry stamped" my US Passport.
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 12:30:42 -0800 *@X.* wrote:
:So Sunday I returned from Asia through LAX. Despite the holiday :weekend I got through Customs and Immigration very quickly. The funny :part was the immigration agent put an entry stamp in my US Passport. :They have never done this in the past and it seemed a little odd to :me. Is this some sort of new policy? Just curious, it seems :strange. Have they ever put an entry stamp in anyone else's US :Passport? It's a first for me. I just picture some foreign agent :somewhere questioning why I stamped into the country but never stamped :out next time. There never is a stamp out from the USA. Most of the time they stamp my US passport. No big deal - you can get extra pages installed for free. -- Binyamin Dissen http://www.dissensoftware.com
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#6
December 2nd, 2003, 09:23 PM
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Sunday I reentered America at LAX and US Immigration "entry stamped" my US Passport.
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 20:36:46 GMT, "Mike Cordelli"
wrote: I've had it happen every now and then from Europe, I always believe it's a guy having a lousy day because he always grunts and puts it on a precious clean page. Interesting. Based on everyone's responses it seems it is not uncommon after all. Just a first for me in about 10 trips through LAX. Maybe I just now made it on the "special" list with the rest of you folks.
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#7
December 2nd, 2003, 09:49 PM
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Sunday I reentered America at LAX and US Immigration "entry stamped" my US Passport.
@X. schreef in bericht ... So Sunday I returned from Asia through LAX. Despite the holiday weekend I got through Customs and Immigration very quickly. The funny part was the immigration agent put an entry stamp in my US Passport. They have never done this in the past and it seemed a little odd to me. Is this some sort of new policy? Just curious, it seems strange. Have they ever put an entry stamp in anyone else's US Passport? It's a first for me. I just picture some foreign agent somewhere questioning why I stamped into the country but never stamped out next time. http://www.rathburn.net/visa/usa/usa.html
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#8
December 2nd, 2003, 10:12 PM
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Sunday I reentered America at LAX and US Immigration "entry stamped"my US Passport.
Simple business decision. If the government makes money re-issuing passports,
then it stands to gain by stamping US passports with as much useless stuff as possible so that you run out of space and need to request (and pay !) for a new passport. :-) Consider the treatment the current USA regime gives to visitors to the USA who have overstayed a visa in the past. Since the USA has every reason to fear that other countries might treat USA citizens the same way USA treats their citizens, then that stamp would help you get out of prison since it implicitely proves you have left their country by entering the USA on a specific date and thus hadn't overstayed your visa there. Come to think of it, any visitor to the USA should have their passport stamped when they enter another country after leaving the USA. Since the USA doesn't have exit controls and thus is incapable of really tracking who has and hasn't overstayed their visas, having a stamp from another country proving you had left the USA on such and such a date might be your ticket to prevent a visit to a USA prison.
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#9
December 2nd, 2003, 10:29 PM
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Sunday I reentered America at LAX and US Immigration "entry stamped"my US Passport.
nobody wrote:
Simple business decision. If the government makes money re-issuing passports, then it stands to gain by stamping US passports with as much useless stuff as possible so that you run out of space and need to request (and pay !) for a new passport. Extra pages are free, so what extra money are they making? It would seem they are spending money by stamping the pages.
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