Re: Do you carry your passport with you in Thailand?
Originally Posted by francois
Originally Posted by Beachlover
Really,
Passports get lost all the time, no matter how careful people are. They can't not give you a passport just because you happened to have lost two of them. Losing 4 or 5 passports, maybe, but not 2.
While at the US Embassy in Bangkok I observed a youngish, student/backpacker type guy applying for a replacement passport. The clerk said "this is the 5th one you lost and no more replacements will be issued". He was given a one-way pass to leave Thailand and return to the USA. Maybe he was selling them?
That's possible. And in this case, I think restrictions can be justified.