By: Jeanske_SN - 22nd June 2004 at 20:39
In Belgium, we have an Id-card which allows us to travel everywhere in Europe. IF you have to go outside of Europe, You have to order a passport three weeks ahead. The Belgian passport is the most safest in the world. It is the hardest to fake passport, it has the highest quality. That was in the newspaper a few days ago.
You have to get your first id card when your twelve. BEfore that, You don’t have an Id card, but if you want to travel you need some sort of paper which says the travel period.
Renewal: It is renewed every five years untill you are 23, from then every ten years. If you radically change your look you’d better get one sooner.
By: Silver Snapper - 22nd June 2004 at 19:58
Cost me £47 to get mine – mine is pristine..:D
What about the passport? :rolleyes:
By: coanda - 22nd June 2004 at 19:18
i would rather common sense be employed, the number of terrorists since sept 11th hasnt grown massively
this sort of thing is idiotic, and the staff involved, who deliberately deface other peoples (and the states) property should be sacked and officially charged.
By: Pablo - 22nd June 2004 at 17:21
I saw an old episode of Airport recently in which a passenger was accused of tampering with his passport. It appeared as though the photograph had been replaced (on the older style ones where the photograph is on the revese of the back cover), as the back cover has creases around the photograph. Anyhow, it resulted in the poor guy being interrogated and missing his flight. In the end, the immigration officials found that the passport was genuine.
Every time I fly this worries me, as my passport (now almost 10 years old and due for renewal soon) is in a similar condition.
By: Silver Snapper - 22nd June 2004 at 17:02
Quite right, they don’t know the person – taking precautionary steps – how are the staff to know that the people a normal, truthworthy people? Any tampering or suspect tampering of a passport must not be overlooked. I think you are all getting worked up about it, especially since we never saw the state of the original passport! ’nuff said…
Anyone here got a pristine passport? :rolleyes:
Mine looks like it has suffered from the dozen or so ‘stamps’..How much does it cost to get a replacement.?
By: Silver Snapper - 22nd June 2004 at 16:58
That is bloody outrageous!
The My travel stavel willfully destroyed an official state document, and are not compensating the holder. A small kink in the laminate ok, perhaps grounds to look at the passport a bit closer, but ripping it open was not called for.
The staff member responsible should be put up on charges of willfull vandalising of official state documents.
Doesn’t work that way Sandy…pax cannot call security
and demand an arrest… Is it me or are the most menial of
airport grades suddenly got POWER? :p
By: Bmused55 - 22nd June 2004 at 15:17
Why on earth would the staff of MyTravel Airways want to do that?
I reckon the family had a duff passport, one which certainly would not be accepted for travel. Rather than try and sort one out, they would rather try their luck with it, blaming the airline for damaging the thing.
I watched a repeat of ITV’s Airline a few days ago (on ITV2) and it featured a girl of about 20, who was going away with a few friends. The day before travel, her car was set alight by local yobs and her passport sustained some damage. In fact, the corner of it was slightly melted. However, the photograph could be clearly seen and the passport number was still visible. The usually awkward easyJet, allowed her to travel.
Airlines can be fined if they transport a passenger and their passport is subsequently refused because of the the state it is in. I guess these airlines have to be harsh to save their own skins!
Agreed.
But lets just say for a moment, the passport in question in the article realy did just have a small kink in the laminate.
That does no warrant someome to go ripping the laminate off!
Any such act to a passport other than one that in invalid due to date expiration is illegal and is defacement of Home office official documentation.
I believe it comes close to treason, but not quite. I’ll look that up.
By: T5 - 22nd June 2004 at 15:14
Why on earth would the staff of MyTravel Airways want to do that?
I reckon the family had a duff passport, one which certainly would not be accepted for travel. Rather than try and sort one out, they would rather try their luck with it, blaming the airline for damaging the thing.
I watched a repeat of ITV’s Airline a few days ago (on ITV2) and it featured a girl of about 20, who was going away with a few friends. The day before travel, her car was set alight by local yobs and her passport sustained some damage. In fact, the corner of it was slightly melted. However, the photograph could be clearly seen and the passport number was still visible. The usually awkward easyJet, allowed her to travel.
Airlines can be fined if they transport a passenger and their passport is subsequently refused because of the the state it is in. I guess these airlines have to be harsh to save their own skins!
By: Bmused55 - 22nd June 2004 at 15:09
That is bloody outrageous!
The My travel stavel willfully destroyed an official state document, and are not compensating the holder. A small kink in the laminate ok, perhaps grounds to look at the passport a bit closer, but ripping it open was not called for.
The staff member responsible should be put up on charges of willfull vandalising of official state documents.
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