Talk:Passport stamp

Tel Aviv airport
"Since January 2013, Israel no longer stamps foreign passports at Tel Aviv airport": It's partially true. NO PASSPORTis stamped at TLV aiport anymore, Israeli and foreign alike, and it's not because of the few mentioned arab countries. Even if you want to get a stamp, you can't because there isn't anything to give it to you with. The "stamp" is electronic now: they just register you at the computer and that's all. Again, it does not matter which passport you use. They moved on from the archaic ink stamps, I guess... Source: a friend of mine who works as an immigration officer at TLV aiport. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.183.10.199 (talk) 22:08, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Japan entry stamps/stickers
There is an unsourced statement that Japan doesn't issue entry stamps, but uses stickers. I believe this is only true for non-Japanese visitors, as far as I know, residents and Japanese citizens get entry ink stamps as well as exit stamps; these entries would be far more numerous than landing permission stickers. Any one have a picture or source for how this works? There is also a statement that on the sticker is a "QR Code that allows the immigration official to electronically collect information related to that entry"  since the QR code is printed by the immigration official, this is misleading. It just encodes a the number that appears on the landing card submitted on arrival that becomes one's immigration record number for the period of that stay. It is only used to quickly get into your immigration record, rather than collecting any information in itself. Again, is there a good english source for how this works, I can only find things in JapaneseLady Kodaira (talk) 00:44, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

UK exit control
Exit control does NOT take place in the UK by air, only by land 178.83.201.96 (talk) 14:50, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

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Russia
The numbers in the corners of the stamps are not a code number of the entry/exit point, but a code of an immigration officer. Kreecher (talk) 20:37, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing that out.
 * Since the pre-existing text was wholly unsourced, I've made your suggested change, but it would be great if you could provide an authoritative WP:SOURCE... BushelCandle (talk) 21:12, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Well, the Sources will be difficult, since you might know such info in Russia does not go public. I can only scan my passport with some 20-30 stamps from the same intl. airport, each with different numbers enter-exit. I even once got one and the same officer on both entry and exit, so it should be some "same code stamps" - one entry and once exit - if you like, I could have somehow upload them. Kreecher (talk) 09:46, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I have no doubt that you're absolutely right - please forgive my nod to Verifiability. In your example above, the fact that the numbers were different at the same border post disproved the statement that I just removed (that the numbers related to the border post). Enjoy your travels! BushelCandle (talk) 20:59, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
 * ))) my pleasure. I also noted there are no stamps for Ukraine in this list, I have some to scan and upload. Kreecher (talk) 22:21, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Exit stamps for Mexico
It says Mexico has no exit formalities. At least at land borders this is not true, as Mexican exit stamps do exist (S=Salida, as opposed to E=Entrada)

It may be that there aren't any exit formalities by air (sadly I can't find an e-mail address to the INM to ask, but have sent them a Facebook message), but by land there definitely are. Not sure about sea. André Devecserii (talk) 16:22, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Panama inside the category of "North America"
Geographically they country of panama is normally considered part of central America, it might cause confusion to have this country along with Canada, United states or Mexico. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.32.27.106 (talk) 20:52, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

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Hong Kong and Macau are sectioned separately from the PRC
Despite not being alphabetically together, would it not be wise to place HK and Macau as subsections of the PRC since it is the case that they are one country? Or would this be inflammatory due to the desire for greater autonomy in these regions/independence? EcheveriaJ (talk) 15:53, 3 August 2022 (UTC)