USA Passport stamping

[cashmax]

As a reasonably regular traveller to the USA, I was please to notice that they have stopped stamping passports in MIA and TPA, I assume this is true across most US airports now, which will hopefully make up for the opposite practice reversal in much of the EU.

[E63eeeeee...]

That's interesting, I had thought that most people liked getting their passport stamped. It used to be a regular complaint that travel to the EU didn't get you a stamp. Maybe it's an age thing. I do wonder what people who've only ever had a blank passport think all those pages are for.

[x5tuu]

Have they officially though ?!

In recent years I’ve noticed that if I’ve returned within the original date stamp window that they don’t restamp and creat an overlap in essence.

I came in/out via TPA a few weeks ago and was still stamped but it had been a couple of months since the previous exit.

[nordboy]

We just cam through Boston Logan and apart from the line wait, it was all pretty seemless, and no stamps at all. The time at the desk for 5 of us was a few minutes at most. Only one of us needed to supply fingerprints as well.

[x5tuu]

Here’s hoping they have stopped then! It’s a pain when they messing about trying to find empty spaces for their stamps!

[GCH]

Odd.
You certainly still get entry stamps as a resident / permanent resident / citizen.

[parabolica]

cashmax said:

As a reasonably regular traveller to the USA, I was please to notice that they have stopped stamping passports in MIA and TPA, I assume this is true across most US airports now, which will hopefully make up for the opposite practice reversal in much of the EU.

Do you have a Known Traveller Number or similar? I would imagine that might make a difference.

I flew into Houston a few months back and into Chicago last week and they are still stamping.

[75Black]

I didn't get a stamp in TPA either last year, going into TPA again in 6 weeks so will see if I do or don't get one this year. Did get all my fingerprints taken, would have assumed the TSA would have had them on file when I last went to JFK in 2019/2020.

[djc206]

Didn’t get mine stamped in Miami last year but I think that might have been because I still within the 90 days of my previous stamp?

[mikey_b]

Mine wasn't stamped when I went to Houston at the end of March this year. That was the first time I'd been for a while, but I went to the US three times in 2019 and got stamps every time. A bit disappointed TBH, I like the stamps!

My only other stamps in this passport are from a (car) trip to France last year, one on the way out at the Eurotunnel and then another when we came back.

Passports being valid for 10 years it means you can get a nice collection if you get around a bit, and idly flicking through it years later brings back some memories.

[OMITN]

No stamp and no fingerprints yesterday doing the pre-clearance (by which I think they just mean “clearance”) in Dublin. Just the usual photo.

[Pugland53]

No stamp for us last October in Miami. Just arrived into Tampa a few days ago and no stamp or fingerprints either.

[HotJambalaya]

i have global entry and thought it might be something to do with that when i passed through MIA and PHL, but vegas seems to still stamp every time.

The damn eu ones are the ones killing me. I have 4 pages left in my passport now, but about 5 years before it expires...