American Visa / Passport

[koiman]

Late last year I had a 10 year USA visa added to my passport by the American embassey. My passport runs out in 2008, will I loose my visa (which is fixed in my passport) when I renew?

[kempie]

It is not possible to transfer a visa from one passport to another without making a new visa application.

However, if the passport in which your visa has been endorsed has expired, the visa in the old passport still can be used, provided that you also carry a valid passport of the same nationality. Note: If, when canceling your old passport, the passport authority has clipped the corners of the passport, and, in so doing, has damaged the visa in any way, that visa is no longer valid and cannot be used for travel to the United States.

http://www.usembassy.org.uk/cons_new/faqs/faq_visa_niv.html#niv110

[Dee Sa]

when I had this problem, but a few years ago, the passport office attached my old passport to the new one with a seal, it looked ever so impressive.Each page of the old passport has "cancelled" stamped across it.