October 8th, 2006, 22:32
And still on the subject of visas, it appears as if your passport may be marked when you come in on a 30 day visa exemption stamp. A number may be written in your passport next to 30 day stamps. A reader reports that he did a 30 day visa run this week and noticed that the immigration official had done everything as normal but that he had written the number 1 with a circle around it. It makes me wonder if this means the first of the mooted 3 allowable runs? Has anyone else noticed this in their passport? And another reader, a close friend, reports that when he came through this week the lady at immigration had a green highlighter pen. After stamping his passport, the Immigration officer put a small mark on the stamp using a green highlighter pen. What was this for? I have never heard of this happening before either.