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What was the very first stamp in your passport?

Postby Madhu » January 5th, 2007

So you have a passport...what was the first overseas stamp in your passport and when did you get it.

My first passport I got at 18 as soon as I was eligible to get one on my own.

My first stamp..LAX Airport Sep 10th 1992.
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Postby rawjer » January 5th, 2007

I'm on my third passport now, but I remember my first passport was one I shared with my older brother. We sat side-by-side in the photo. Do they still do that for kids?

I was 4 and my brother was 6 and our first international flight was from Los Angeles to Frankfurt, so I guess the Frankfurt stamp is the first one we got.
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Postby JessieS » January 5th, 2007

Ooh, fun question. Let's see... I got my first passport in 1991 (age 19) for a trip to New Zealand/Australia in 1992, so I think the first stamp in it was from Auckland's airport, January 2, 1992.
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Postby 2wanderers » January 5th, 2007

In my first passport, the first stamp was the Bahamas, in January 1993, I was 10 years old. However, both on that trip and earlier ones, I had cleared US customs, but had not been stamped.

For my 2 more recent passports, both were first stamped at LHR-3.
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I'm on my third passport now, but I remember my first passport was one I shared with my older brother. We sat side-by-side in the photo. Do they still do that for kids?
Nope. Anyone and everyone, regardless of age, must now have their own passport.

When I was a kid you could be listed under your parent's passport up to a certain age (I think 15), but I got my own for my first overseas trip, based on the assumption that I might travel on my own before it expired, which, indeed I did.
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Postby Trentt » January 5th, 2007

First passport - 1985, age 25. First stamp would've been Barbados, January 1986.
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Postby Justin7199 » January 5th, 2007

bah, my first trip out of the country was to france (GOv workers were on strike, so no stamp there), and then to Spain (was on a train so no stamp there), so my first stamp was when i came back through chicago. Booo.

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Postby Eowyn218 » January 5th, 2007

My first stamp was the end of february, 2004, at Madrid. I was 25.
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Postby seraphim » January 5th, 2007

My first stamp in my first passport was from the Czech republic (or was it still Czechoslovakia?). That was in 1993 I think.
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Postby Zeke14 » January 5th, 2007

First passport was at age 25, in 1988.

I don't remember the first stamp, since I lost that passport way back in 1990. But it would have been from my trip to Germany and Turkey. I remember my flight from Seattle transited through Frankfurt, and then onward to West Berlin (yes that's how long ago it was) so probably a German stamp of some kind.

That passport had a stamp from when I crossed at "Checkpoint Charlie" from West to East Berlin--it still pisses me off that I lost that passport. There were cool stamps and visas in there!

This post has now brought that loss up again...
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Postby ChrisH » January 5th, 2007

My first passport stamp was at San Francisco in 1999. I was 14 - I'd been to plenty of European countries by then, but they don't stamp Wink
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Postby ivybell » January 5th, 2007

London, June of 2003 when I was 16, I'd been to Cananda many times, but they don't give any stamps.
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Postby kyretech » January 5th, 2007

My first stamp was at heathrow when I was 13 and that was about the end of June 1994. I went through Europe a few times only recieving a stamp back in the US at LAX. Kinda disappointing.

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Postby Trentt » January 5th, 2007

I went to Toronto in October (from the US, with a US passport), was interrogated by two separate immigration people (who didn't quite believe my tall tale about having friends in Canada) and did indeed get a Canadian stamp in my passport.

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Postby stomps » January 5th, 2007

I actually got the first stamp in my passport when I was six months old. My mom and I were going to visit my grandparents in England, and since she is a British citizen and I'm American, I couldn't be put on her passport. The stamp would have been from the middle of 1985 and would have stated I entered the country at London Gatwick. Unfortunately, I've changed passports a couple times since then, so I don't have the original stamp.

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Postby Piecar » January 5th, 2007

Canada stamps US passports coming this way? I guess on a plane.

For me, and I imagine for most Canadians, the first stamp is always going to be the US. They are in our way. Unless you live on the east coast and fly to Britain, I guess.

But my first, besides that? Japan. 16.
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