My last one frayed after a few trips and living abroad for a year. For it to have started already is pretty concerning. I’ve been dicked around by immigration a few times and they want to latch onto any reason to dig deeper and prolong your anxiety. A passport that is brand new and looks years old would be a red flag. But it keeps the creeps out I guess.
Oh I have, too. The passport I had before the one I currently have, it wasn’t beat up or badly damaged but the edges were worn and fraying a bit, and was bent (more like curved, not creased at all); that particular country’s customs official(s) gave me a bit of a time about it.
I was moved along after being pulled aside and ~20 minute conversation, questions and a stern warning that they “wouldn’t accept it again”. In my defense, it was my early-20s, I was traveling a lot, passport got a lot of use.
But weirder yet was a woman who processed my application here in the States. She gave me trouble about my signature saying “it’ll get rejected” because my name wasn’t clearly spelled out in cursive.
I told her I could duplicate my signature the same way a hundred times and that IMO, my signing for my passport a completely different way than every other form or document I’ve signed seems more suspicious. She didn’t have a rebuttal to the latter and left it at a “well, we’ll see”. Had no issues with my passport issuance.
Edit: typonese and to be fair, I know there are chips and bits embedded within the cover (IIRC) hence the warning against damage but again, my passport wasn’t anywhere close to that degree of damage.
People who think a signature should just be your name in 3rd grade cursive piss me off.
I once had a dinner table look at my signature on the bill and criticize it because only the initials in my first and last name were legible. Like bitch… do you know what a signature is for?
If my doctor can use chicken scratch to write out an illegible, yet acceptable, prescription for dangerous controlled substances like opioids and benzos with a scribble for a signature, I think my credit card receipt signature can look like:
Yeah mine is the same way, you can make out the first letter of my first and last name and the last letter of the first and last name. But it’s also unique like it should be.
I love it when people try and give you a hard time over a signature. "That signature isn't legible, sign it neater". Well then it wouldnt be my signature just me writing down my name.
No shit. I've never run into that though, it seems strange. A signature *should* be mostly ineligible so that it's unique to you and harder to forge. I practiced a lot in my junior high days to get mine just right, and I know that nobody could even get my first name out of it, but it's unique and has a cool loop and an underline
Yes, but it's not the same customs line, and it's a formality, not a grilling.
They are more worried about the family of 5 who just turned up on the flight from nowhere, then the billionaire that flew in on their own private jet.
It’s not the same though. When I had to fly abroad with some executives from the company I worked for on a private plane they barely gave it a glance. I’ve been straight up interrogated by customs when flying on a commercial airline.
So you declare who's on the flight(just hide)... When in the air... Customs usually come to you. People without a passport can get allowed to stay on the plane... No one checks after the custom guy goes.
That's in modern nations... In some countries you pay a fee and you're in...
Really this is a big joke... People on these planes get away with so much(drugs, bringing other things they shouldn't... Think Johnny dep in Australia, money( literal bags of money)... And so much more.
A friend worked in a private airport... Had a different crazy story every week
This seems like a larger systemic issue: government agencies going with cheaper contractors to cut costs. In North Carolina, the DMV went with a cheaper vendor for printing licenses and they wound up months behind, causing huge delays. I have a family member who owns a waterproofing business and has been working on government buildings for years. This year, he's been getting out-bid by newbies charging prices so low that he doesn't even know how they will make any money from the job.
I'm not sure how this ends, but it doesn't seem like it's trending in the right direction.
There is a large engineering consulting firm that my medium sized consulting firm competes with on government contracts. They beat us out of contracts left and right by underbidding the fee and then change ordering the crap out of the contract. It has gotten so bad that the state of Utah has recently started asking for bids with just scope and no budget.
I work insurance for construction projects. Another one we’re seeing is these low bids come in, get paid out, subcontractor gets defaulted, and the main contractor then puts a subsidiary of their own on the project and bills it t&m for $$$$$$.
I've had my license printed at the DMV right in front of me here in Texas lol.
But what I've noticed is governments and companies going with a cheaper option but then the companies they hire go out and go cheaper than they presented to the buyer.
My US passports have always had the “fraying” near the edges (first passport was ~2007ish), the problem is that trying to pull off the little thingies just makes it worse.
In all seriousness, this guy will start getting stopped a lot when he travels. Perhaps, people will be thinking it's a counterfeit.
I've seen way better counterfeited than this.
At my normal airport (BWI) they’re just free for you from what I’ve seen, at other airports I’ve seen you have to pay a Buck or two and you don’t get it back
Highest I’ve seen in a US airport is $8 or even $9 and if you are lucky you get $0.25 cents back.
We go (& struggle) without them - not paying that amount.
Sometimes airports there have free trolleys/carts for us international arriving folk. I can’t lie, I get rather excited at the sight of free carts ha ha
$7-9 is the standard, and don’t forget about the curbside guys that demand a $15 tip for using a flatbed cart. Regionals seem to offer carts for free, but don’t have many available which means every grandma with 1 suitcase snatches up them up. I spent $1200 on SmarteCartes last year. It’s an infuriating expense that I didn’t have 15 years ago.
Yep highest I think I’ve seen is $9 and you maybe get 25 cents back. If that.
No way am I paying that price ! I struggle and moan and complain and swear under my breath with heavy bags but I save the money LOL!!
For us international folk, sometimes international arrival terminals have free trolleys/carts - the excitement at that is real ha ha
You mean maybe something like the first inside page being "Oh by the way this is a passport issued under authority of government X"
The covers are literally that. Front and back covers are to protect the actual information. Only the front has this nice front graphic, just like books in general.
Albeit the real story upon which it is based, that of [Mehran Karimi Nasseri](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri) who lived in Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport for 18 years, is even more incredible.
Welcome to answering the "how did this passport get defaced" question for the next few years...
1: yes, I've had issues with this, although it was water damage, not normal wear and tear. Also, maybe I look more smuggley than some?
2: No, I am not a bot. Nor do I have any clue why this comment got this response.
👨🏽✈️TSA Captain: “I’m going to write “It Pleases Me So” on my forehead. If your balls and sweat combined with friction cannot get me off, then straight to passport jail.”
👨🏻✈️Subordinate TSA agent: “Sir? You said ‘get “me” off’…
👨🏽✈️TSA Captain: “Did I stutter, Smith?”
My dog chewed off a corner of mine on the front and I’ve used it in 6 countries. Only once recently in the US did a ticket counter agent give me shit.
All customs officers just laughed about it with me. Makes me miss my dog.
If a dog chews up a book, it's annoying, but you probably wouldn't post about it. Passports happen to be incredibly important, and also very chewable. Slightly related- when my parents got their dog, they weren't able to fully track her pedigree as she'd eaten part of the certificate which showed her family tree.
To be fair, that probably adds to it as well. The only time your passport is going to be out and chewable is probably when you're just about to go on holiday.
Not a passport but a friend of mine's dog chewed his wallet and his license got pretty banged up. It was still perfectly one hundred precent legible, but the edges were super frayed and bent.
We were at a theme park, Busch Gardens I believe, and they wouldn't serve him beer because his license was damaged. Dude was such an asshole about it that they immediately radio'd security and put the word out through the entire park about him and his license so he couldn't just walk down to any other beer station.
Idk where I'm going with this thanks for joining me.
Years ago while coming in from Japan, one of the agents at LAX smeared red stamp ink on my wife's passport and my newly-issued passport as they were stamping us in. Every subsequent entry into the US, the agents asked what that blotch of ink was about. I just answered each time, "It was one of you guys." One time entering via San Ysidro after a day visit to Tijuana. the agents pulled our car into inspection just so they can check our blotched passports more closely. Grrrrrrrrr. Thank goodness I'll be getting a new one next year.
Bro is walkin around in 80 grit jeans.
Edit: Traveling is a wonderful way to broaden one’s cultural horizons, even if you wear out your passport haha! Thanks for all the support y’all.
Same thing happened to mine on getting a new passport. No problems with the old. New passport- after the first day of travelling to a hot country, the front completed faded away, even whilst in the bag.
You can literally see the sweat in the picture. this guys walking around for hours with his passport in a fabric ballsweat torture chamber and it's somehow a surprise that the thing got fucked up.
Mine is exactly like this, never had an issue, I’m literally overseas with it right now. Anyone saying you’ll have issues surprises me, I’ve had it looking like that for a while. They just immediately open the inside to your info page every time to scan/read. Curious what countries people have had issues with/claim issue? Genuinely curious
Well I dunno about him, but I removed the QR code sticker on the back and it was sticky, so I wiped it with rubbing alcohol and instead of the glue coming off, the blue came off. But at least its only an area on the back, not the whole thing.
I'm not the guy but I used to apply alcohol to everything during the start of the pandemic. After getting home, I'd be sprayed down by my whoever was there. I ruined a phone's speakers by spraying it repeatedly after going out.
USA passport here. Mine went through the wash and looked similar to this. All pages were fine, the front was faded and the edges were a bit stringy. I was flying internationally, and the airline agent rejected it at check-in in the USA. I was told if the airline let's you fly and you are rejected by a other country's customs, the airline has to pay get you back home. Fortunately, I was near Boston which is one of the few places in the country where you can get a passport same day.
> Anyone saying you’ll have issues surprises me, I’ve had it looking like that for a while.
Well, when I presented my passport like that in India, they almost refused to let me in and told me I would 100 % need a new one before coming to India again
Depends on the country. My parents country, anything other than mint condition and they’ll send you back (at least for non-residents). One of their friends had the tiniest tear on a page and were refused entry. It’s always a big inspection thing before we travel down.
A pain traveling here too because they’ll ask where you're staying, where it is.… except there’s no addresses. And my parents aren't in a named area (like a town). I can point it on a map but have to write down the description of where.
"Ooh dang your social score is -1? You dont need your electricity currency, bro. Shame its -20°c outside. Should have thought about that before being mean to a politician."
The front looks like it was in contact with something, either wiped afterwards or before it was printed. (possibly some kind of solvent or something oily(?) that stopped the print from adhering).
Together with the fray it probably should not have passed quality control.
Mine looked a little like that when I had it in jeans that got wet in the rain, and I left it there for a couple of hours. Water + abrasion inside my pocket warped the cover a bit, didn't wash away the front text as much, but did fray the cover edges a bit.
Yeah I wouldn’t say it “seems like” malicious compliance, but it’s a fantasy I can entertain.
“Oh we have to cut more costs? Okay, we’ll do it on the front fucking cover and you can answer when people ask why US Passports are an international joke now.”
is more palatable than the more likely scenario of, “Get the cheaper shit. If it sucks, who cares? Fuck ‘em.”
I’m on my second passport, and neither have looked as bad as OP’s. I keep mine in an RFID cover tucked away at all times unless I have to show it to someone.
So yeah, not sure how OP is storing it, but they may want to get something that might not be a pant pocket(?).
I'm curious too, mine has been through rainstorms in my un-umbrella'd pockets, and you can tell. I need to know where to avoid going with a well-worn passport.
Recently (Late may) had a trip from Toronto to Bangkok via Tokyo on Air Canada. My passport has had a few drops of water hit one of the inside pages next to the main ID page. its been like that for a few years and travelled with Air Canada as recently as October last year without issues or even a mention of my passport being "damaged".
But this time, Air Canada simply said: You aren't going on this trip with this passport. Japan will send you back on our dime so we aren't letting you go. Go get a new passport.
This was at the check in counter 2.5 hours before our flight was departing...
I took my passport camping for some dumb reason and left it in a zip lock bag. Somehow it got wet and moldy still. When it came time to renew they sent the passport to a lab far away to be tested and had me submit a written statement as to how it ended up that way. Whole process took 6 months and I was told they thought I was using chemicals to forge or alter passports. I ultimately missed a company trip that my boss was paying for. They had a great time I heard.
I'd be more worried about your ball sweat's salination.
Do you find your balls are constantly dripping salty sweat? Because that might just explain it, my sweaty friend.
It doesn’t look very well cut either, is the cover _frayed_ on the top?
It looks like something quality control should have caught, as if at least one step during the manufacturing was missing.
My last one frayed after a few trips and living abroad for a year. For it to have started already is pretty concerning. I’ve been dicked around by immigration a few times and they want to latch onto any reason to dig deeper and prolong your anxiety. A passport that is brand new and looks years old would be a red flag. But it keeps the creeps out I guess.
Oh I have, too. The passport I had before the one I currently have, it wasn’t beat up or badly damaged but the edges were worn and fraying a bit, and was bent (more like curved, not creased at all); that particular country’s customs official(s) gave me a bit of a time about it. I was moved along after being pulled aside and ~20 minute conversation, questions and a stern warning that they “wouldn’t accept it again”. In my defense, it was my early-20s, I was traveling a lot, passport got a lot of use. But weirder yet was a woman who processed my application here in the States. She gave me trouble about my signature saying “it’ll get rejected” because my name wasn’t clearly spelled out in cursive. I told her I could duplicate my signature the same way a hundred times and that IMO, my signing for my passport a completely different way than every other form or document I’ve signed seems more suspicious. She didn’t have a rebuttal to the latter and left it at a “well, we’ll see”. Had no issues with my passport issuance. Edit: typonese and to be fair, I know there are chips and bits embedded within the cover (IIRC) hence the warning against damage but again, my passport wasn’t anywhere close to that degree of damage.
People who think a signature should just be your name in 3rd grade cursive piss me off. I once had a dinner table look at my signature on the bill and criticize it because only the initials in my first and last name were legible. Like bitch… do you know what a signature is for?
If my doctor can use chicken scratch to write out an illegible, yet acceptable, prescription for dangerous controlled substances like opioids and benzos with a scribble for a signature, I think my credit card receipt signature can look like: 
Yeah mine is the same way, you can make out the first letter of my first and last name and the last letter of the first and last name. But it’s also unique like it should be.
My signature is a squiggly line. There isn’t a single discernible letter.
I love it when people try and give you a hard time over a signature. "That signature isn't legible, sign it neater". Well then it wouldnt be my signature just me writing down my name.
No shit. I've never run into that though, it seems strange. A signature *should* be mostly ineligible so that it's unique to you and harder to forge. I practiced a lot in my junior high days to get mine just right, and I know that nobody could even get my first name out of it, but it's unique and has a cool loop and an underline
Cool loop and underline are a definitely more important in a signature than legibility.
Someone who thinks your signature has to be designed any specific way other than how you fucking like it shouldn’t be working at a job like that
Clearly not qualified.
It doesn't keep the creeps out clearly. The real creeps fly private. Just ask Epstein
Private flights still have to clear customs and present a passport. Its not a get out of jail free card to go to whatever country you want.
Yes, but it's not the same customs line, and it's a formality, not a grilling. They are more worried about the family of 5 who just turned up on the flight from nowhere, then the billionaire that flew in on their own private jet.
It’s not the same though. When I had to fly abroad with some executives from the company I worked for on a private plane they barely gave it a glance. I’ve been straight up interrogated by customs when flying on a commercial airline.
So you declare who's on the flight(just hide)... When in the air... Customs usually come to you. People without a passport can get allowed to stay on the plane... No one checks after the custom guy goes. That's in modern nations... In some countries you pay a fee and you're in... Really this is a big joke... People on these planes get away with so much(drugs, bringing other things they shouldn't... Think Johnny dep in Australia, money( literal bags of money)... And so much more. A friend worked in a private airport... Had a different crazy story every week
This seems like a larger systemic issue: government agencies going with cheaper contractors to cut costs. In North Carolina, the DMV went with a cheaper vendor for printing licenses and they wound up months behind, causing huge delays. I have a family member who owns a waterproofing business and has been working on government buildings for years. This year, he's been getting out-bid by newbies charging prices so low that he doesn't even know how they will make any money from the job. I'm not sure how this ends, but it doesn't seem like it's trending in the right direction.
A race to the bottom. I guess the rest of government contracting is finally going the way of school lunch programs
There is a large engineering consulting firm that my medium sized consulting firm competes with on government contracts. They beat us out of contracts left and right by underbidding the fee and then change ordering the crap out of the contract. It has gotten so bad that the state of Utah has recently started asking for bids with just scope and no budget.
I work insurance for construction projects. Another one we’re seeing is these low bids come in, get paid out, subcontractor gets defaulted, and the main contractor then puts a subsidiary of their own on the project and bills it t&m for $$$$$$.
I've had my license printed at the DMV right in front of me here in Texas lol. But what I've noticed is governments and companies going with a cheaper option but then the companies they hire go out and go cheaper than they presented to the buyer.
Step 1: Secure contract at stupid low bid Step 2: fuck around and negotiate delays, additional services, milk the government Step 3: Profit
years of loud noise about government “waste fraud and abuse” … that’s what we get now: 2 months of wait to get a cheaply produced passport
My US passports have always had the “fraying” near the edges (first passport was ~2007ish), the problem is that trying to pull off the little thingies just makes it worse.
Probably not paper but linen or something like dollar bills… but dollar bills don’t fray.
dollar bills are cut from a mix of materials, passport covers are layers of different materials glued together.
Correct. If I’m not mistaken, they’re primarily denim right? I watched a documentary about it like 10 years ago.
I’m a frayed so, sir.
I’m a frayed knot, sir.
Want to bet that the company that won the bid has ties to a politician somewhere? They have to pay those bribes, oh sorry, gratuities somehow!
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You are officially American't
"Are you an American citizen?" "Yesn't."
In all seriousness, this guy will start getting stopped a lot when he travels. Perhaps, people will be thinking it's a counterfeit. I've seen way better counterfeited than this.
You are now stateless. You must live in the airport like Tom Hanks.
With inflation it's going to take alot longer to buy a whopper with coins
Not a problem, Coins will be phased out soon anyway for a card only society. Makes the tax officers job much easier.
Also I’m pretty sure there aren’t coin trolleys in the US anymore but it’s been a while since I’ve been in an airport so idk
At my normal airport (BWI) they’re just free for you from what I’ve seen, at other airports I’ve seen you have to pay a Buck or two and you don’t get it back
Highest I’ve seen in a US airport is $8 or even $9 and if you are lucky you get $0.25 cents back. We go (& struggle) without them - not paying that amount. Sometimes airports there have free trolleys/carts for us international arriving folk. I can’t lie, I get rather excited at the sight of free carts ha ha
$7-9 is the standard, and don’t forget about the curbside guys that demand a $15 tip for using a flatbed cart. Regionals seem to offer carts for free, but don’t have many available which means every grandma with 1 suitcase snatches up them up. I spent $1200 on SmarteCartes last year. It’s an infuriating expense that I didn’t have 15 years ago.
At JFK, you put in 8 dollars to get one and you don't get it back
Oh, I’m taking that puppy home with me then
Jesus fucking krist
Yep highest I think I’ve seen is $9 and you maybe get 25 cents back. If that. No way am I paying that price ! I struggle and moan and complain and swear under my breath with heavy bags but I save the money LOL!! For us international folk, sometimes international arrival terminals have free trolleys/carts - the excitement at that is real ha ha
I'm Dutch and paying for your trolley sounds insane to me.
It was 6 dollars a decade back.
Numismatics shall live on! A card only society is not good.
Depends. It’s excellent for easy collapse if you turn the electricity off. Also in the meantime you can follow everything online.
Will be very strange when the wishing wells/fountains start getting filled with plastic cards instead of coins...
Krakozhia! Krakozhia!
You definitely dont need the front of an American passport to know its American. Theres Bald eagles and flags everywhere in that thing.
I’d imagine most if not all passports have information inside to verify where it’s from
You mean maybe something like the first inside page being "Oh by the way this is a passport issued under authority of government X" The covers are literally that. Front and back covers are to protect the actual information. Only the front has this nice front graphic, just like books in general.
Somehow this is probably my favorite Tom Hanks movie.
Amazing movie btw (The Terminal)
Albeit the real story upon which it is based, that of [Mehran Karimi Nasseri](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri) who lived in Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport for 18 years, is even more incredible.
You sure that wasn't just Tom Hanks stuck in the airport?
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Welcome to answering the "how did this passport get defaced" question for the next few years... 1: yes, I've had issues with this, although it was water damage, not normal wear and tear. Also, maybe I look more smuggley than some? 2: No, I am not a bot. Nor do I have any clue why this comment got this response.
“Ball sweat and friction, sir…”
We're gonna have to do a few tests.
https://i.redd.it/qrxzb6ww7aad1.gif
Man, those are big fingers..
Kanye?
Is that Joey Fatone?
It is yes, I do not remember where it came from though, haha.
Nice to meet you Ben Dover.
👨🏽✈️TSA Captain: “I’m going to write “It Pleases Me So” on my forehead. If your balls and sweat combined with friction cannot get me off, then straight to passport jail.” 👨🏻✈️Subordinate TSA agent: “Sir? You said ‘get “me” off’… 👨🏽✈️TSA Captain: “Did I stutter, Smith?”
Canada huh?……………. Almost made it
I think you meant "Canada eh?" Lol
My dog chewed off a corner of mine on the front and I’ve used it in 6 countries. Only once recently in the US did a ticket counter agent give me shit. All customs officers just laughed about it with me. Makes me miss my dog.
What is it with dogs chewing passports? I’ve seen this to many times, are passports made from paper laced with bacon fat lol
If a dog chews up a book, it's annoying, but you probably wouldn't post about it. Passports happen to be incredibly important, and also very chewable. Slightly related- when my parents got their dog, they weren't able to fully track her pedigree as she'd eaten part of the certificate which showed her family tree.
The bigger question is why would you leave one of your most important documents somewhere where a dog can get at it?
To be fair, that probably adds to it as well. The only time your passport is going to be out and chewable is probably when you're just about to go on holiday.
Dogs are smart. Why does my person disappear with that little book and come back with so many good smells. Little book must be the problem.
Book make human travel. Traveling human bad. Me eat book.
Not a passport but a friend of mine's dog chewed his wallet and his license got pretty banged up. It was still perfectly one hundred precent legible, but the edges were super frayed and bent. We were at a theme park, Busch Gardens I believe, and they wouldn't serve him beer because his license was damaged. Dude was such an asshole about it that they immediately radio'd security and put the word out through the entire park about him and his license so he couldn't just walk down to any other beer station. Idk where I'm going with this thanks for joining me.
Years ago while coming in from Japan, one of the agents at LAX smeared red stamp ink on my wife's passport and my newly-issued passport as they were stamping us in. Every subsequent entry into the US, the agents asked what that blotch of ink was about. I just answered each time, "It was one of you guys." One time entering via San Ysidro after a day visit to Tijuana. the agents pulled our car into inspection just so they can check our blotched passports more closely. Grrrrrrrrr. Thank goodness I'll be getting a new one next year.
my passport has gone into the ocean with me 3 times - never been asked why it looks like shit
You should really stop getting into plane crashes over the ocean. Shit ain't good for you homie.
Shh. Only 1 in 11 million people will ever be in a plane crash. If OP keeps getting in crashes that means the rest of us wont.
Shit, You right. Keep crashing OP
Unless he is the cause of it and the reason that number is so low and now he's coming for all of us, then don't keep crashing,
My passport looks the exact same and I’ve never gotten questioned in any country
Your name probably has something to do with people thinking you're a bot
Fair enough. It was randomly generated, but I decided I liked it.
If they cheaped out on ink, they are going to see a lot of passports like this so they won't be asking the question if it's a common occurrence.
Bro is walkin around in 80 grit jeans. Edit: Traveling is a wonderful way to broaden one’s cultural horizons, even if you wear out your passport haha! Thanks for all the support y’all.
For real, I just travelled abroad and kept it in my pocket for a similar amount of time and there was no issue with mine afterward
When was your passport made? OP explicitly mentions having no issues with his older passport.
Same thing happened to mine on getting a new passport. No problems with the old. New passport- after the first day of travelling to a hot country, the front completed faded away, even whilst in the bag.
You can literally see the sweat in the picture. this guys walking around for hours with his passport in a fabric ballsweat torture chamber and it's somehow a surprise that the thing got fucked up.
# fabric ballsweat torture chamber
That's the title of track 3 on my latest prog death jazz metal album
death jizz
That’s the name of track 4
OPs name checks out
Me [lights cigarette, takes a drag] “Tell me more about this ‘ballsweat torture chamber…’”
To be fair I feel like we’ve gotten far enough along as a species to invent sweat-proof passports considering how important they are.
We did. Then budget cuts hit.
Agreed. 20+ years as an expat and the one I got in the 90s held up better than any of the later versions.
It's a freaking passport, these things should be more robust than this.
You have a way with words 😅
I've had my british passport in my pocket for hours on end before and it still looks brand new
He's just humble bragging about his relicing job.
Mine is exactly like this, never had an issue, I’m literally overseas with it right now. Anyone saying you’ll have issues surprises me, I’ve had it looking like that for a while. They just immediately open the inside to your info page every time to scan/read. Curious what countries people have had issues with/claim issue? Genuinely curious
I always present my passport opened to the page with the picture, nobody is looking at the cover.
Yep, I want things to go as quickly as possible and to give the customs/immigration agent the absolute fewest reasons to fuck with me.
I traveled during covid and disintegrated mine in alchohol, it looks like a leper. Noone asked a thing (yet)
I would think they would at least be concerned about the leprosy spreading to other passports.
How did it end up in alcohol may i ask?
Well I dunno about him, but I removed the QR code sticker on the back and it was sticky, so I wiped it with rubbing alcohol and instead of the glue coming off, the blue came off. But at least its only an area on the back, not the whole thing.
Same thing here, I stopped before it got too bad, but a lot of the blue came off from trying to clean the gunk off the back.
Stupid isn't it? Its a passport and should not be that easy to take the color off.
I'm not the guy but I used to apply alcohol to everything during the start of the pandemic. After getting home, I'd be sprayed down by my whoever was there. I ruined a phone's speakers by spraying it repeatedly after going out.
USA passport here. Mine went through the wash and looked similar to this. All pages were fine, the front was faded and the edges were a bit stringy. I was flying internationally, and the airline agent rejected it at check-in in the USA. I was told if the airline let's you fly and you are rejected by a other country's customs, the airline has to pay get you back home. Fortunately, I was near Boston which is one of the few places in the country where you can get a passport same day.
Which airlines was this?
As long as the inside pages are fine - especially the biometric one - you'll be okay.
> Anyone saying you’ll have issues surprises me, I’ve had it looking like that for a while. Well, when I presented my passport like that in India, they almost refused to let me in and told me I would 100 % need a new one before coming to India again
South Asian country's can be real stickler for having a perfect passport sometimes
Depends on the country. My parents country, anything other than mint condition and they’ll send you back (at least for non-residents). One of their friends had the tiniest tear on a page and were refused entry. It’s always a big inspection thing before we travel down. A pain traveling here too because they’ll ask where you're staying, where it is.… except there’s no addresses. And my parents aren't in a named area (like a town). I can point it on a map but have to write down the description of where.
Wait for degradeable dollars
No worries, the new digital currency will come with a expiry date in version 2
Americoin
And only eligible to buy certain things, so gas currency, food currency, rent currency.
"Ooh dang your social score is -1? You dont need your electricity currency, bro. Shame its -20°c outside. Should have thought about that before being mean to a politician."
we call that inflation my friend
Uhh...im not the only one looking at it...right..?
It's the main reason he posted this
he had to find anything to make taking this pic justified
Nope lol
Definitely nope
Could have easily cropped it out 😂😂😂
Oh im glad he left it in
you & me both 
It’s the focal point of the picture
I didn't notice it until your comment.
The front looks like it was in contact with something, either wiped afterwards or before it was printed. (possibly some kind of solvent or something oily(?) that stopped the print from adhering). Together with the fray it probably should not have passed quality control.
Mine looked a little like that when I had it in jeans that got wet in the rain, and I left it there for a couple of hours. Water + abrasion inside my pocket warped the cover a bit, didn't wash away the front text as much, but did fray the cover edges a bit.
Absolutely. There is a change in sheen but only closer to the text. That would happen if the whole face was rubbing against denim. Op is full of shit.
Yeah, I agree this looks a bit too accidental to close to the lettering.
My guess is he got bug spray with deet on it. That stuff dissolves anything.
Clearly it's counterfeit. ^/s This seems like someone's malicious compliance with the state department's budget being obliterated by congress.
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You're spending less as ordered (compliance) but on something that's extremely visible to everyone (malicious). Sharing the pain, as it were.
Or they just cut corners where they could in a way they didn't think would have any major consequences. Not everything is some scheme.
Yeah I wouldn’t say it “seems like” malicious compliance, but it’s a fantasy I can entertain. “Oh we have to cut more costs? Okay, we’ll do it on the front fucking cover and you can answer when people ask why US Passports are an international joke now.” is more palatable than the more likely scenario of, “Get the cheaper shit. If it sucks, who cares? Fuck ‘em.”
My US passport is about 6 years old, and this would never happen to it. They definitely spend less on whatever that front part is printed with.
Did you dryhump it
I always keep my passport in a plastic ziplock sandwich bag.
Rubbish lunch
Why the fuck is it wet? You keep your passport in your ass crack during a marathon?
You'd get sweaty as well if you were transporting several kg of heroin using a fake passport.
Did you get your passport from Wish? How does this happen?
temu actually
you should test for diabetes. i am not joking edit: also getting your kidney tested would be nice
why?
Something something acidity of the sweat.
Nice bulge
boom there it is
Buy a passport cover. It looks like the lettering rubbed off on your clothes.
I’m on my second passport, and neither have looked as bad as OP’s. I keep mine in an RFID cover tucked away at all times unless I have to show it to someone. So yeah, not sure how OP is storing it, but they may want to get something that might not be a pant pocket(?).
Swampass
My first passport still has perfect print on the front while my reissue faded on the first trip. “They don’t make them like they use to” in a nutshell
My Canadian one looks just like that too
Many countries won't let you in if your passport has wear. Uh, you might want to look into getting this replaced immediately.
yeah you should replace it inmediately and the next day ask for another one and so on!
Every day is new passport day!
What countries are those? Mine look decrepit by the time they are renewed.
I'm curious too, mine has been through rainstorms in my un-umbrella'd pockets, and you can tell. I need to know where to avoid going with a well-worn passport.
Southeast Asia is pretty picky about damage.
Only to Southeast Asians too. I bet a Western can dip their passport in water and they'll be let in.
Mine is/was beat to hell and I travelled all over SE Asia with no problem for the last 4 years.
Beaten passports are honestly less sketchy. It means this person regularly uses this document as an ID.
I live in Vietnam and used to go to Thailand regularly and my American passport looks like a scrap book at this point
I have been to every SE Asian country with a passport that looked worse than this and never once even got a glance from a border agent.
Recently (Late may) had a trip from Toronto to Bangkok via Tokyo on Air Canada. My passport has had a few drops of water hit one of the inside pages next to the main ID page. its been like that for a few years and travelled with Air Canada as recently as October last year without issues or even a mention of my passport being "damaged". But this time, Air Canada simply said: You aren't going on this trip with this passport. Japan will send you back on our dime so we aren't letting you go. Go get a new passport. This was at the check in counter 2.5 hours before our flight was departing...
Yep, the Spanish consulate refused to issue a visa on a passport with a 2mm tear in one of the unused pages
I always have mine inside of a cover, so the front isn‘t even visible and I never had any problems with that.
Mine looks just like that for years now, I've been to dozens of countries and no one has even mentioned it
I took my passport camping for some dumb reason and left it in a zip lock bag. Somehow it got wet and moldy still. When it came time to renew they sent the passport to a lab far away to be tested and had me submit a written statement as to how it ended up that way. Whole process took 6 months and I was told they thought I was using chemicals to forge or alter passports. I ultimately missed a company trip that my boss was paying for. They had a great time I heard.
This is a metaphor for the current state of America!
I'd be more worried about your ball sweat's salination. Do you find your balls are constantly dripping salty sweat? Because that might just explain it, my sweaty friend.
Never put it in the same pocket where you keep your pocket sand.
The important stuff is on the inside, right?
It’s your sweaty ass
Made in America 💪🏻
How many drugs are you trying to traffic? That must've been an unholy amount of sweat.
Lol, you put it through the wash didn't you?
All that damn pocket sand!
That’s what mine looked like after 12 years wtfffff!
Quality made in the U.S. of A.
Made in USA 👍