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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?
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?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.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authority has clipped the corners of the passport, and, in so doing, has damaged the visa in any way, that visa is no longer valid and cannot be used for travel to the United States.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
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authority has clipped the corners of the passport, and, in so doing, has damaged the visa in any way, that visa is no longer valid and cannot be used for travel to the United States.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
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!