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The only time you have a very good chance of swapping passports without causing problems is when you fly in to a country. Then they don't ever seem to look for the previous country, but at land borders they mostly keep flipping pages until they find the previous exit stamp.
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The only time you have a very good chance of swapping passports without causing problems is when you fly in to a country. Then they don't ever seem to look for the previous country
If the passport is new, no entry/exit stamps at all, even arriving at an airport may cause questions to be asked.
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The only time you have a very good chance of swapping passports without causing problems is when you fly in to a country. Then they don't ever seem to look for the previous country, but at land borders they mostly keep flipping pages until they find the previous exit stamp.
That may not work out in somewhere like Dubai which scans the computer to see when you were last there etc; I would not be sure of what databases they are accessing to check "your new passport" - it might throw up the fact that you have travelled on more than one, both "in date".

There again, an Iris scan can get you through their system, as it does when entering the UK.
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For Swiss people it is possible to get a second passport as well. You have to apply at your canton office. Here is the form for Bern. They call it "Austauschpass":
http://www.pom.be.ch/pom/de/index/zi...tauschpass.pdf

Just one thing: It is actually illegal to carry two passports of the same country at the same time. As others already wrote it can become a big problem if someone finds out. Therefore everyone should be extra careful.

We will be travelling with two passports to be able to get visas and still have one valid passport with us while we wait for the other one to get back. It is not really possible though to swap passports between borders because most boarder controls check for the previous stamp.

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Would be interested to find out where the law is written about it being illegal to carry two passports ... and whose law is it ? The country of the passport issuer, or the country you are in ?
When I entered Russia from Georgia, and switched passports, the officer wanted to see both, as he needed to see the exit stamp from Georgia.
Similar routine 6 days later when exiting Russia to Kazakhstan and switching passports back.
I would suggest the carrying of two passports might invite concern, without an explanation, but illegal ? I cant see that being the case until I stand corrected.
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I have dual nationality.

Both of my passports have no stamps...
Leave county A on passport of county A - scanned, no physical stamp.
Arrive country B using passport of country B - scanned, no physical stamp.
Leave county B on passport of county B - scanned, no physical stamp.
Arrive country A using passport of country A - scanned, no physical stamp.

If I were to use either passport at a country who looked for exit stamps .. they would find none. Times have changed, very boring looking at new passports, now old passports are very interesting ... I have one from 1946... no not one of mine

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I know people who have travelled with two passports issued to them by the same country... nothing illegal about it. They were tour guides - many many stamps - passports got used up in no time, so they needed a replacement ready to go when the older one got full.
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In Germany you can have two or more passports legally e.g. by using these arguments:
- you want to go to Israel and after that to some (muslim) country that will give you trouble because of the Israel stamp
Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaidschan and some other country-constellations might work, too.
- you have to apply for several visas upfront by sending in your passport to those embassies at the same time and it would not work in a timely manner if you would do them sequentially

In Germany it´s no argument that you might run out of blank pages. That can be solved by applying for a new passport with extra pages (48).

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Yes Warin but that is only two countries. What about the other couple of hundred places in the world.

And further, I know people who have exited one country with one dual nationality passport and then tried to enter the next country with the other one to avoid visa fees and they were refused entry because there was no proof that they exited the adjacent country legally. They had to own up to the other passport and pay the visa fees.
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