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Comment by fusiongyro | Hacker News Reader

Israeli border control will give you temporary insert pages if you're worried about it affecting your travel to other countries. You just have to ask.

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I'm pretty sure he knew this, but wanted to get the stamps in his actual passport:

after a pint of Guinness in Ireland to celebrate landing his final passport stamp this week

After that trip I don't think anyone would suggest he was wrong to make sure he had it stamped.

This makes sense and I really hadn't considered it.

Israeli border control also no longer stamps passports. They give you a little slip of paper with your picture on it. This piece of paper is your "temporary visa."

Or at least that's how it was a few months ago.

Also my country can issue you a temporary passport if you're planning to travel in country A and you have a visa of country B in your passport, when countries A and B are at war.

I expect more countries do the same.

I was under the impression we did that for exactly this case in America but when I searched I found a page saying we only issue two passports in extraordinary circumstances. This might count though.

Chris Guillebeau had two American passports for precisely this purpose. Also, you have to send your actual passport to get some visas and that leaves you without a passport for weeks at a time. So having two helps there too.

Canada won't do this. I had my passport stuck with the UK's Home Office for six months and the Canadian High Commission said they couldn't issue me a second travel document.

In Taiwan, “I need to get visas from multiple countries at once” is a valid excuse to get a second passport valid for 5 years.

To me, this comment is the essence of hacker news. Guy goes around the world. Guy visits tons of dangerous places and miles of border paperwork. One presumes he did a ton of research. And yet, there's a guy on the internet saying "oh, here's this thing you missed".

Sorry if you take the huff.

I'm not trying to "correct" him, just want to make sure aspirational HN travellers take advantage of a tiny piece of information he may have missed. Of course, if you'd rather read too much into a trivial comment on a trivial article, knock yourself out. That's also par for the course.

Or use the most universal way: get multiple passports. Just lie to police that you dropped your old passport in some rural Russian toilet. This is a way Russian traveller and designer Artemiy Lebedev (http://tema.ru/travel/ ) uses.

Not a good idea if anybody is thinking of doing this. I actually lost my Canadian Passport once, and they take it quite seriously. Canadian Passport renewals are quite simple and painless, but not for me. I have to go to the office and fill out special forms, I can't get a 10 year Passport like other people can, etc. etc.

In some countries it is legal to have multiple passports. Other option is to have multiple citizenships.

You only had to make it one comment further.

Some places are more cunning. I've read reports of countries looking for stamps from the Taba border pass (a border between Israel and Egypt) and not letting someone in base on that (since if he passed through Taba he was either from Israel or going to Israel, even if the Israeli stamp was not in his passport).

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