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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.

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.

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.

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.

First passport - 1985, age 25. First stamp would've been Barbados, January 1986.

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.

First "real" stamp was Hong Kong

My first stamp was the end of february, 2004, at Madrid. I was 25.

My first stamp in my first passport was from the Czech republic (or was it still Czechoslovakia?). That was in 1993 I think.

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...

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

London, June of 2003 when I was 16, I'd been to Cananda many times, but they don't give any stamps.

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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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.

And ... jaykers, but I am old!!

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.

- Kristin

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.