beware passport
 

just to let you know that my friend got refused entry into bangkok because his passport was slighty torn on apge

Everyone panic!!

Huh?

Sure it was the slightly torn page and not something more legit?

Really, you should have seen my last passport - three batches of added pages, many torn, and more. Sure it wasn't the cover that was torn, so that there may have been a fear that the chip had been tampered with?

If the plastic "sealed" page containinng photo/chip is damaged in any way then many countries will refuse entry on the base that it may have been stolen and being used fro nefariuos purposes. Quite right too. We either take security seriously or we don't. I know which I prefer!

the chip was perfect and the picture a page was slighty torn he was deported right alway he wasnt stopped leaving london so who was to blame apart from the holder

Still sounds sketchy. There's more to this that either your friend isn't telling you or you're not telling us.

&gt;&gt;<i>Everyone panic!!</i>

=-O

&gt;&gt;<i>Who was to blame apart from the holder?</i>
Nobody.

Reads like troll. In all my 10 years in Thailand i never heard such waffle.

Well, you can pop off and rent a room from him and ask him yourself, if you like:

http://plymouth.gumtree.com/plymouth/36/33429136.html

Dog

You are the master at sleuthing, were you ever a copper?

My Passport is a wreck. I carry it every day because I travel so much.

I go through Immigration in Bangkok several times a year.

No problem.

lol Smeagol, 'tis true - I love a bit of detective work. This all came from a lengthy time tracing my family history. I learnt about the mysteries of Google search. lol. That's about the depth of it.

Get Google on your task bar, do a search on a key word or two - and Voila! Hercule Poirot le Dog Detective, at your service.

A click on their name in here can be quite instructive as well. And canine intuition...