Can my wife enter Thailand with a slightly wet passport that is now dry?

@David **********

obviously not ! you need plastic baggy over them. anyway I am joking 🙃 a bit

@Tony *********

at least I'm not the only numpty lol

@David ******

we're an international brotherhood!

@Bertie ********

well Bertie you should check with the passport issuing authority. They alone determine what complies with the law and your opinion is worth Jack Sh1t. I was told by uk passport agency that washing machine cycle didn't invalidate mine. In fact it was much cleaner and smelled so fresh!

@David ******

I am a World traveller and wouldn’t take a risk, in any case my Passport gets filled up between 2 and 3 years and I have to get a new one, currently I am on Passport # 13.

@Bertie ********

I'm so impressed Bertie. Traveling the world hey. Where else is there to travel ? I paid extra £15 got another 20 pages in my passport. Doesn't need to fill up so quickly. Maybe you get so many stamps moving around as a drugs mule or chasing duty free?

@David ******

wtf are you smoking? It doesn't matter what your home country regards as a valid or an invalid passport. It's down to the country you are arriving in and what they deem acceptable and unacceptable and this varies country to country and even IO to IO

@Declan *********

on that basis nobody can be totally confident their passport won't cause a concern to some over zealous pedantic IO. that's extreme. The uk passport agency knows what they're talking about. They could easily have said “replace it” but it's good to hear you know more about passports than they do. What a feckin arse u are.

@Da***

you were saying? 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@Declan *********

well they changed their advice. That's not the advice they gave me in 2010.

@David ******

it has been the same since I damaged my passport in 2006 and was told it needed to be replace. You were given bad advice and were lucky nobody was really that bothered back then, but now its at the point that if you have a bio chip passport and the data is corrupt or the chip is damaged and can't be read you'll be denied at check-in as the data on the chip cannot be cross referenced with the passport bio page and most, if not all passport controls will deny you entry for having a chip that cant be used as it could be a sign of passport tampering.

@Janelle ****

dozens of times. Even there entry and exit is in computer database. The only thing they obsess about is cash receipts for visa extensions because they don't place a new stamp in passport each time you extend. (They save on cost 25 stamps for 1 piso.) So gotta show cash receipts or risk being asked to pay again. Cash is king in PI diba

@David ******

yes it’s king there but I use the diplomatic entry for there . But I have seen them criticize stamps

@Pertti ************

I’ve never shown my passport to police. Nor would they ask for it.

@Todd ********

passport is first what they ask us even we thai passport, license etc.. Here pattaya they check everytime first passport then other documents🙏

@Pertti ************

they don’t check passport if you don’t carry it. Show drivers license and off you go

@Todd ********

They do at an all vehicle, all persons, all ID document roadblock check. Never experienced one of these yet in Thailand though.

@Christopher **********

me neither

@Rob *****

I live in the mountains near chiang mai. We drive around without a license or anything. Never take my passport with me within Thailand. But I am not normal.

@Jo *********

also this was when I lived in bkk

@Rob *****

I used to live in Chiang Rai, in my opinion best city on the earth

@Jo *********

well I live in chiang rai and it’s a little different here in the north

@Rob *****

Since I fly at least once a month I need my passport desperately. I have a protocol come home goes in a special draw

@Andrew **********

passport is still valid if chip is not working

@Radost *************************

a lot of countries will now reject a passport with a bio chip that isn't working because the details can't be cross referenced with the actual physical passport and it could be a sign of tampering.

Even airlines can and will reject you for having a corrupted chip or chip that can't be scanned.

@Declan *********

exactly.