New Challenge

[el_rooto]

Hi everyone,

Since I'll be getting my first Adult passport next week, I've gotten the Frequent Traveller one, and I've made it my mission to fill it up within the next 9 years and 6 months.

Challenge accepted?

 

[Mal]

Yeah do it. Quite possible if you go to countries like Istanbul or China or Indonesia etc etc which require a full page visa. Not so easy if you go to countries that have small stamps.

Sent from my GT-I9100 using AustFreqFly

 

[oz_mark]

I had that idea once, and the one page visas are helpful.

(Downside is that it can make for a lengthy Neg Vet clearance application)

 

[anat0l]

I think you can do it . When I got my first adult passport, I wasn't an AFFer - I only got to that point when I had about 6 years left, and only really ramped up my own international travel at about 3-4 years left. I only filled 18 of my 32 pages. Personally I think I did rather well (considering there are some stamps on top of other stamps, and I have no full page visas).

Full page visas help quite a bit, as does travelling intra-Asia plenty, and shuttling between UK and the rest of Europe (essentially in and out of the Schengen zone).

You've got about ten years, I think you'll smash it.

 

[el_rooto]

I had that idea once, and the one page visas are helpful.

(Downside is that it can make for a lengthy Neg Vet clearance application)

What do you mean by "Neg Vet" I assume its a typo for Nat sec...

 

[oz_mark]

What do you mean by "Neg Vet" I assume its a typo for Nat sec...

Negative Vetting, it's a security clearance.

 

[el_rooto]

Negative Vetting, it's a security clearance.

Ah, just googled it. I don't think a PV test would go down well with a full passport.

 

[jflowers]

Negative Vetting, it's a security clearance.

that's cool How do I get one of them... Did you need one for your work?

 

[JohnK]

I filled my last passport with just 7 years of travel as I did not fly anywhere for the first 3 years.

So I got a 64 page passport a couple of years ago and I am up to page 13 with a fair few gaps and also pages 68-69 used. It looks like I may struggle to fill it.

 

[seanpodge]

Living in China at the moment which requires shiny new stickers in the passport every six months or so, along with entry and exit stamps. If I didn't have a second Irish passport from my EU trips, the Australian one would be getting close to half full only about two years in.