passport renewal

[sunnydaze8]

this time i will write the question!!

had my new passport back now married. my last passport had my us visa in there that is valid til august this year. i thought they would cut this out of old one and stick it in new one. they havent. this surely means i no longer have a visa, what do i do?

[tamborine]

carry both passports if you're going to US

[sunnydaze8]

as received old passport back with corners cut off, will visa still be valid?

[ABerrant]

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

If the passport in which your visa has been endorsed has expired but the visa is still valid, 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authority has clipped the corners of the passport, and, in so doing, has damaged the visa in any way, that visa is no longer valid and cannot be used for travel to the United States.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....safaqs.html#validvisa

[wildwood]

Ring the US embassy closest to you. Some countries use an electronic visa and you don't actually need a sticker in your passport. The sticker in the passport may only be there for your convenience.

[windycity8]

what i want to know is, ive just had a new passport with that eye recognition thing inside it. how do they know what your eye is like or does it activate when you first use it?

[237SJ]

I have a visa for the states on my passport which expires at a different time to the passport. You just take both

[bushbaby_de]

windycity, thats a biometric passport which isn't the same as the IRIS system. You need to register for the iris recognition next time you're at the airport to use that. But your new passport will let you use the other set of fast-track gates in some cases (if they are ever actually open!!)

[windycity8]

what does biometric mean then if not iris? if i need to register at the airport wouldnt this hold me up?

[bushbaby_de]

Biometric just means all the data on the photo page is also held on the chip. There are automated gates to scan your biometric but they aren't always open. You only need to register the first time you use Iris (takes about 15 mins) then after that you are free to use it. Would have saved me a 40 minute queue last weekend when the biometric gates were closed and millions of flights landed all at once!