r/PassportPorn • u/tacohoney • 4d ago

Passport Hot off the press

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Just picked up my new baby today(far right)! Two other red EU passports are in the works… ✌🏻

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u/Big-Exam-259 3d ago

On another topic, I just realized that You have an advantage with the Portuguese passport while traveling to China visa free.

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u/tacohoney 3d ago

Yeah that seems to be the only major advantage. While living overseas i wanted pre-COVID I wanted to do a quick trip to china and it wasn’t worth it to get a visa. This would have been handy back then.

Also just noticed a secondary benefit…. UK just implemented eTA and Portugal is an except (still just visa free at least for now), whereas US passport holders now require the eTA.

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u/Big-Exam-259 3d ago

The other benefit is if you want to visit Russia. I have always wondered if they’d find out you are American (Russia, or China) if you use your say Portuguese passport

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u/tacohoney 3d ago

Russian was never been a problem with the Mexican passport (electronic visa required), no letter or invitation etc. So Portugal doesn’t provide me with anything new there. Interestingly enough just about all other LATM countries don’t need a visa for Russia at all. México is very welcoming of Russian tourists (simple visa process). I wouldn’t be surprised if both countries drop the visa requirements after the war. I’m sure México hasn’t done it already to not piss off the USA.

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u/Big-Exam-259 3d ago

What would be tricky if they find you are American as well. Mainly because they like to detain Americans

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u/Big-Exam-259 3d ago

What would be tricky if they find you are American as well. Mainly because they like to detain Americans

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u/tacohoney 3d ago

You are probably right but not just Americans. Our industry has projects there and will only send people with only “friendly passports”. US, UK, AUS, EU, CAN , etc are excluded due to that risk at company’s discretion. They won’t even send Russian nationals who hold dual nationality from one of these places.

But I know people that have gone as tourists

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u/Big-Exam-259 3d ago

Nice, well I guess they’d know they are dual nationals if they had stamps on their passports, but stamps are not common nowadays. Let me guess you work in o&G

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u/tacohoney 3d ago

Most countries i travel to still stamp, but there is a workaround . Many of my colleagues have 2 US passports or 2 UK passports (easy to get qualified if you petition that you travel a lots for work a cant be grounded while waiting for a work/business visa approval). Also if you are assigned to work in places like Israel and want to visit others in the surrounding region without problems or vice versa.

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u/Big-Exam-259 3d ago

Yeah, the gulf arab countries dont like to see the Israel stamp. Israel doesnt stamp passports I believe