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Wow, besides the possible expense, having a one year passport must be a pain. It's essentially valid for 6 months less the time of your trip since most places r

Wow, besides the possible expense, having a one year passport must be a pain. It's essentially valid for 6 months less the time of your trip since most places require six months validity beyond your departure from their jurisdiction. It's like you almost have to apply for a new passport for each trip! Also having a one year total duration is sure to attract attention from foreign authorities, they'll assume you're restricted for some reason. Telling them that you got it to avoid being fingerprinted is not going to please them. If you want true misery, try getting flagged by the UK, EU or US and enjoy up getting detained for hours (in a holding cell) each time you try to cross their border. Have you actually travelled on such a passport?

jacobush 8y ago
I have, it was no issue. Also, you can get it within the hour. But it is expensive and you will get some weird looks. I haven't tried going the US with it.
- jkaplowitz 8y ago
  Even if the US does accept the passport without a problem, it will still fingerprint and photograph almost every visitor whether or not the passport contains those biometrics. Canadian short-term visitors, and of course US citizens/nationals, are the main exception.
paganel 8y ago
> Have you actually travelled on such a passport? Yeah, I've travelled to Turkey pretty soon after I had it issued, in fact that was the main reason of me getting a passport and yes, I did sort of use it as a one-time thingie. It sure adds some extra costs (in real money and in opportunity costs) but I'm willing to eat them up, for the moment. > is sure to attract attention from foreign authorities, they'll assume you're restricted for some reason. Telling them that you got it to avoid being fingerprinted is not going to please them. That's one extra reason not to travel to countries that treat tourists/foreign people like crap.
- retiredcoder 8y ago
  > That's one extra reason not to travel to countries that treat tourists/foreign people like crap. In my experience, unless you go thru an automated system when passing thru immigration, chances are you will be treated arbitrarily (crap). Source: non white man living and traveling within Scandinavia always randomly selected for additional questions.

jacobush 8y ago

I have, it was no issue. Also, you can get it within the hour. But it is expensive and you will get some weird looks. I haven't tried going the US with it.

jkaplowitz 8y ago
Even if the US does accept the passport without a problem, it will still fingerprint and photograph almost every visitor whether or not the passport contains those biometrics. Canadian short-term visitors, and of course US citizens/nationals, are the main exception.

paganel 8y ago

> Have you actually travelled on such a passport? Yeah, I've travelled to Turkey pretty soon after I had it issued, in fact that was the main reason of me getting a passport and yes, I did sort of use it as a one-time thingie. It sure adds some extra costs (in real money and in opportunity costs) but I'm willing to eat them up, for the moment. > is sure to attract attention from foreign authorities, they'll assume you're restricted for some reason. Telling them that you got it to avoid being fingerprinted is not going to please them. That's one extra reason not to travel to countries that treat tourists/foreign people like crap.

retiredcoder 8y ago
> That's one extra reason not to travel to countries that treat tourists/foreign people like crap. In my experience, unless you go thru an automated system when passing thru immigration, chances are you will be treated arbitrarily (crap). Source: non white man living and traveling within Scandinavia always randomly selected for additional questions.