I'm gonna take you on a deep dive into the most important
book in the world
we have a pretty good idea of what it means to move around
this world a lot of it hinges on this little book number one passports expire
before the expiry date the only people required to honor that expire date other
people who issued your passport if I'm traveling to France or Brazil they don't
have to let me in a lot of countries don't want your passport expiring while
you're in their country .
you might be thinking well what if my travel dates have me
leaving before the expiration date sometimes you end up getting stuck in a
country longer than you expected unfortunately some people also use traveling
as a way to immigrate into a country and so these nations want to make sure
that that doesn't happen to you and that you have some buffer rail now depending
on the country that you're traveling to this buffer one can change a bit most
countries in Europe have a 90-day buffer but countries like Brazil China India
require six months this is also the case for visas I have come in to the United
States on a valid working visa with two months left and they've pulled me up
and threatened not to let me in the only reason they let me in school they had
another visa in process and this is also the case for pages some countries want
to issue a visa into your passport
unless you have enough pages left now I've actually been
caught out on this now a page it's just one side of these and I actually have
numbers on them so that's 40 so that means that the page 40 and that's the
United States page 39 so that's one page and that's two pages although it's
physically on now depending on the country depends on the number of pages they
want to be left and this can range anything from one page to 36 pages what
number two selfies are not allowed when it comes to taking passport photos
there are a lot of different regulations guidelines of the photographs and they
can vary in sizes, unfortunately, you there will not accept a handheld
self-portrait and so unless you're a photographer with the right skills to get
the framing and the lighting correct then
it does seem unfair but unfortunately it's a product of
complex international relations at the main point I wanted to make here was
don't make any assumptions about business and check what visas you need based
on what passport you hold 3c visas take time at the longest I've waited for a
visa is up to eight months for a u.s. working visa some are a fast turnaround
like travel visas to Africa I know here is that when you are applying for visas
you will likely be asked what countries you have traveled to because it should
be no surprise that not all countries are friends and so there are some
countries that will be red flags countries be aware of where you travel and how
that can impact where you travel to other places three be consulates will take
your passport getting a visa is actually it's a physical piece of paper that is
stuck into your passport so that means you have to hand your passport in and be
without a passport for a certain amount of time so a few tips here is to take
some photocopies of your passport photocopies are not a legal document that you
can then use to travel on but they're good to have so that if anything happens
to real passport you can expedite processing also if you can't physically hand
your possible into the consulate that's issuing that visa
then I suggest highly suggest that you use a secure and
tracked querying service 3e if you get a new passport you need to get a new
visa now this can actually be a little bit frustrating because sometimes and
this certainly happened to me you might have a valid visa in this passport but
the passport expires or in my case runs out of pages and then you need a new
passport but you've got valid visas in this old one most countries will not let
you take a valid visa out of one passport and put it in a new one you have to
apply for new visas in your new passport there are however four exceptions
Brazil India Saudi Arabia and China oh we got to show the paper because the
thing is I need it I know I know that's all what number four cruise ships take
your passport now this is an interesting one because technically your passport
is not your property for example to quote the American passport this passport
is the property of the United States it is unlawful for any person other than
the original lawful recipient to use this passport now we tried to I'd you this
point pretty strongly on our cruise to Antarctica however they made the
argument that they like to hold all the passengers passports to make it easier
to move large groups of people through ports it ultimately for us it boiled
down to an ultimatum they said you know give up your passport or get off the
ship so it ultimately boils down to a personal decision do you want to engage
with a private company that is asking you to surrender your passport point
number five keep your passport on you at all times
it's obviously directly contradicts the previous point
around surrendering your passport to cruise ships now this is a bit of a
controversial tip among travelers most tourists who have
only ever traveled to first or destinations will argue that it's safer to keep
the passport in the locked safe in the hotel to avoid people gets any traveler
worth their salt will tell you never to let the passport off your person this
is what will let you into a country but more important elation out of a country
back into your own country many of the places that we've travelled such as
China India and throughout parts of Africa have required us to stop at
checkpoints where military security have asked to see our passport see if we're
allowed to move through a region this was certainly the case up in Jammu and
Kashmir people are getting is a concern which is why I'm saying keep it close
to you but you carry cash on you and you look after that so treaty passports in
some hotels will ask for it when you check in I suggest that you can simply
offer for them to take a photocopy to keep on their records if there are a fuse
go to another hotel number six face tattoos if you get a face tattoo or you
have plastic facial surgery or you lose or gain a lot of weight you'll have to
get a new photo and therefore a new passport because well you look different
now dying or cutting your hair is not a big enough change for a new photo
number seven stamps and stickers to worry about if you've watched our video
what does for essence on your boarding pass mean you will know that there are
certain countries that you visit that will become red flags for other countries
visiting Israel for example can buy you from visiting other Middle Eastern
countries like Saudi Arabia and Lebanon now you may also notice that on your
back of your passport you might start to be collecting some little stickers
these are stickers from independent security contractors they'll operate
airport checkpoints electronic equipment such as the x-ray scans and they'll
also verify your documents can you take them off absolutely once you get home
but they do leave a sticky mess and we think it's cool to leave them on because
it adds to the character although well travel to passport number eight you can
have two passports two of the same passport like two Australian passports and
this can be quite handy for frequent travelers who need to be traveling while
their other passport is getting a visa put in it and this seems awesome.
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