Getting passport stamps inside Schengen Area
It is known that passport stamps are a kind of collection for many people. But, inside European Union, we -EU citizens- are allowed to travel without passport, just with our national ID card (if we have in our countries).
Is there any way to get passport stamps like non-EU citizens? You can identify yourself with the passport of course, but they don't stamp it.
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With the Schengen agreement internal immigration controls have been abolished. So even if you wanted to get a stamp when crossing say, from Germany in to France, you wouldn't be able to find someone to do this for you. At many borders the only sign that you are crossing in to a different country is that the quality of the road surface changes.
When travelling within the Schenge area by plane you also don't pass immigration normally, as Schengen passengers are routed separately from non Schengen passengers at most airport. Post 9/11 there are again identity checks when entering the departure area of an airport, but this is not immigration, those people won't be able to stamp your passport either. I can remember how in the first years of Schengen I once flew from Brussel to Barcelona without showing any piece of ID at all the whole way... That was what we as were promised then, but alas this is no longer the case.
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Are passports checked within Schengen?
Part of the Schengen agreement also has provisions for allowing individual member states to temporarily reinstate border controls in certain circumstances. In addition, expect random passport checks when crossing borders at any time, as well as when boarding a plane at the airport.Do you get a stamp in your passport for Germany?
Passports are not stamped when you enter other countries within the Schengen Area because, as Lynda says in post 1, there is no-one there to do it ! No chance, sorry.Does my passport get stamped in Spain?
As a non-resident, you will have passports stamped at border control. Be sure if you get stamped when you entry to Spain, to be stamped once you go out. We know, many people who, when visiting Spain, have received a passport stamp on entering, but not when you left.Should my passport be stamped when leaving Spain?
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Answer 2
I'm a UK national with the EU passport and the border control in Amsterdam and Helsinki have both stamped my passport when I asked them to - they didn't mind at all and even had a flick through to see all the stamps from other countries.
Answer 3
Just to clarify for fellow EU citizens that are trying to get "souvenir" stamps in their EU passports:
They don't stamp your passport because it is against the law to do so! Also, should you manage to get them to do it, you risk having your visa application to another country (say China, Russia, the US, India) refused and being asked to renew your passport due to the "souvenir" stamps which in their eyes render the passport a "fake".
Answer 4
Within the Schengen Area, border guards at internal checkpoints aren't equipped with stamps (instead they check whether a non-EU/EFTA citizen has a current entry stamp), and so cannot stamp you. Such checks currently mostly take place when entering Sweden, Denmark, France or Switzerland by land.
It is possible you could ask the Swiss to put a customs stamp in your passport if you're stopped for a check, but I have no experience of my own with this.
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