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If you’re a frequent traveler, then you may one day run into an offer for a souvenir passport stamp. Antarctica offers a stamp at some of its scientific stations, Machu Picchu offers a stamp at the entrance of the Inca ruins, and the town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch in Wales offers a special stamp you can put in your passport at one of its shops. Except you shouldn’t. At least not in your actual passport.
On page five of your US passport, you’ll find a note that says that the “Alteration or Mutilation of Passport,” is not allowed and that “only authorized officials of the United States or of foreign countries may place stamps or make notations or additions to this passport.” This week Travel + Leisure posted the story of a British woman, Tina Sibley, who didn’t head a similar warning in her UK passport and added one of those Machu Pichu stamps, essentially rendering her passport invalid in the process.
Sibley discovered the issue when she was denied boarding at the airport by two different airlines. The stamp ended up costing her a few extra days where she was, and a trip to the embassy to get emergency documentation.
Read: a huge headache. All for a novelty stamp. You can read her personal account of the incident in a Facebook post here.
While the novelty passport stamps that look like real ones are obviously problematic, the advice goes for anything you might be considering adding to your passport. The only thing that should go in there are stamps added by an official border patrol officer.
If you do want to collect novelty stamps along your travels (they are cool), save those for a travel journal instead. Or if you really need it to be part of your real passport, consider having a piece of paper stamped and keeping it tucked inside your passport or passport holder in a way it can be easily removed when it comes time to have it evaluated by a border patrol officer
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