Passport made strange scan alert sound when checking out of the country
Earlier this year I was in Japan and Korea. Now I'm back in my home country. However, when I was in Korea the "scan" machine before going to luggage inspection, right before accessing the boarding gates made a weird "alert" sound. It has happened at least twice already, but both times the officer just handed me back my passport and didn't ask me anything. They just made sure I looked the same as in the photo.
When I was checking out of Japan, before going to the boarding gates, when the officers scanned my passport, they all looked at each other confused but never looked at me or asked any question.
I'm wondering if there's something wrong with my passport and what it could it? I'm a little concerned even though I've never been asked anything whenever this happens.
Best Answer
That beep is likely a sound that the inspector's scanner has scanned your passport (and your boarding pass is in order). As far as I can recall, it has been beeping all the times whenever I enter luggage inspection, and nothing happened except "move on".
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