Blank page needed for visa stamp!

[Marggie]

In answer to another question , the way I read it this new rule does not include people with Residency, I think ..

I hope you are right - the only reason I can see for them requiring a new page for every Visa is to make their calculations easier.  If there is a valid Residency Permit I can't see why multiple stamps on a page would be a problem.

[Scunner]

As far as I recall, it has always been 1 page per stamp anyway (stamp as in sticky paper thing, not stamp as in inky pressed down thing). With residency there is of course no sticky paper stamp, just the entry/exit inky ones - which they seem to favour making in three sets to a page formation.

[Eric]

In my passport I have a page with 2 old type visas, With 12 stamps on them! Showing in and out obviously, several times with no problems.  I have just renewed my passport (Now different passport number) and my old passport has my entry stamp (with residence visa) and I will be going on holiday soon with my new passport but using the old passport entry stamp! This should be fun!
 

[apollo]

Apollo
Thanks for the info. It makes a lot of sense and brings the system inline with a lot of other countries.
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I know this may read more aggressive than I mean it to be but  so far you are the only poster who has welcomed this change.
Which other countries employ the 'fresh page' system?

This regulation covers all nationalities,not just Brits.

 Hopefully, this will make passport checks quicker and easier, especially at istanbul.

 The passport police will no longer have to search for the stamp and when they cannot find it give it back to you to find for them.

[Marggie]

Been going in and out of Turkey for 20+ years (multiple entry over the last 10 to 15 years) and have never been given my Passport back to find the stamp for the Passport Police.

[Scunner]

Same here, although it has taken them ages to find it sometimes.

On one occasion flying from Antalya, several more passport police came to look at my passport, then suited men - eventually they told me there was no record of my entry into Turkey this time. Of course there was, I even remembered them stamping it just weeks earlier I told them. But there wasn't...

[Marggie]

Never used to give entry/exit stamps a second thought but over recent years I make sure that we have been "stamped" in and out.  Wouldn't like to be interrogated by the Turkish authorities.

[GordonA]

Posted by "Scunner";

"On one occasion flying from Antalya, several more passport police came to look at my passport, then suited men - eventually they told me there was no record of my entry into Turkey this time."

Maybe you weren't really there Keith, but just a "Pigment" of their imagination !! :-)

[KKOB]

I'd had an inkling you'd say that Gordy.

[Scunner]

Well I have had a colourful past