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Passport Cover

Denise

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If you present your passport in a "passport cover" do the folks at customs have you take it out of the cover before they look at it?
I am looking at some neat covers but do not want to use one if it's going to cause any additional work/interaction for the customs officials. Thank you.
 
Yes, you do. There are signs telling you to remove it from covers. They have to be able to open them, but you need to remove it, not them. (More for you to do, not them)
 
Does that include the ones that are just covers, not holders for tickets, pens etc? When you open it just the passport is in it....just like a book "cover" that we had to put on in school...back in the day.
 
Yes. The u.s. custom agents made me remove my clear covers with nothing else on them.
 
My passport cover says Bulgaria on it, and is a facsimile of the outside of a Bulgarian passport. If I am ever in a situation with terrorists taking up passports, I just hope that look at the cover and don't go any further.
 
Thank you all very much for the replies. Looking for a Swiss passport cover :)
 
We have a padded passport cover that has an inside sleeve on each side that's large enuff to hold the entire passport closed. That way you can slip one in on one side and your spouse's in on the other, and you can easily pull 'em both out when its opened.
 
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Denise, they take your passport and slide it like a credit card thru the reader...so u can not have anything on it.
I used to have a pretty turquoise leather cover but they are not permissible anymore as it once was.
Since I can't leave the cover on - I don't bother with it anymore.
 
Anyone with a passport issued after October, 2006, use a passport cover to block the embedded RFID tags? -- Suzanne
 
I am canadian, that at least is also a non-targeted passport cover. My husband's US passport always goes underneath my in the pile, just in case.
 
What are "embedded RFID tags" ? Thank you.

They are computer chips that have all your information on them that can be 'read' by radio frequency (RF) equipment without actual contact- like a credit card magnetic stripe does. There is one of those embedded inside the cover of all new US passports.

There is some thought that keeping your passport in a metallic cover will subvert unauthorized people from 'seeing' the information contained therein.

Many items you buy have RFID chips embedded in them for store inventory purposes, information on what you buy, and many other things.

Kinda 'big-brotherly', isn't it when you think about it.

Jim Ricks
 
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