My current passport was issued in October 2016. Since then (about 14 months) I have picked up stamps from: South Africa, Singapore, Austria, Germany, Romania, Japan, China, India, USA, and Mexico. Not even 1 per month. :(
I'm not sure I've ever gotten an entry or exit stamp for entering/leaving Canada from Canada.
For the US, they don't usually stamp either -- but for my L1 visa, I have US stamps.
Most other places I have gotten a stamp -- though with the EU (or, perhaps, Schengen) zone, country to country transitions don't seem to result in a stamp.
The older of my current passports dates to Jan 2009 and has a total of zero stamps in it; it's very unlikely to be stamped between now and its expiry. The newer was renewed in April 2014 and has, I think, two. (Entry and exit from DXB.)
This is because the older one is my Irish passport, which is never stamped into or out of the EU and which I've only used for EU entry and exit (though I'd use it if traveling to Brazil or another country that gives IE passports better treatment than US ones, I have no such travel planned).
The US passport doesn't get stamped into the US (Global Entry) or Canada (NEXUS) or the EU (not used, see above), and almost all of my international travel is between those....
If I count US entry/exits that aren't stamped, I'd have several more of those. Most of the "duplicates" would be entry & exit stamp from the same country for the same visit -- most visits get two stamps. But I don't really feel I should count those twice, because they are the same country-visit.
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Date: 2017-12-19 09:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-19 09:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-19 09:05 pm (UTC)I'm really not clear on what the "rules" are for stamping or not, it hasn't been consistent even crossing the same border in some cases.
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Date: 2017-12-19 09:10 pm (UTC)For the US, they don't usually stamp either -- but for my L1 visa, I have US stamps.
Most other places I have gotten a stamp -- though with the EU (or, perhaps, Schengen) zone, country to country transitions don't seem to result in a stamp.
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Date: 2017-12-19 10:18 pm (UTC)This is because the older one is my Irish passport, which is never stamped into or out of the EU and which I've only used for EU entry and exit (though I'd use it if traveling to Brazil or another country that gives IE passports better treatment than US ones, I have no such travel planned).
The US passport doesn't get stamped into the US (Global Entry) or Canada (NEXUS) or the EU (not used, see above), and almost all of my international travel is between those....
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Date: 2017-12-20 02:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-20 01:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-20 02:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-20 09:22 pm (UTC)There's only one thing for it - you'll have to travel more in 2018 :p
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Date: 2017-12-20 09:31 pm (UTC)no subject
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