Where do you keep your passport?

[TheFergus]

Well said.

 

[harvyk]

When I'm at a destination, if I have access to a safe (which doesn't cost to use) then in there, otherwise my top pocket. I also keep in there my "get out of the country" money. It's basically the minimum I would need to get a taxi to the airport and pay any departure taxes. I keep this separate in case something goes wrong (it hasn't as yet).

In terms of my own personal safety, well I'm a pretty big bloke who knows how to take care of himself, so I'm probably not target number 1 in the first place. Second to that I try and avoid walking down streets which are probably not safe, and if I do find myself in a street that looks a little dodgy, I keep going as so I look like I'm meant to be there.

I do have to say werdnanostaw, whilst the pouch on the back does seem like an interesting idea, it seems a little too paranoid for my liking, and sometimes that level of paranoia will show in a person which'll give away the fact you've got something potentially valuable. As TheFergus says, that pouch isn't really going to stop someone with a weapon.

 

[Julesmac]

I keep mine in the internal zipped pocket of my handbag, which I keep on the floor by my feet.

Yep, me too. I never ever put it in any of the seat compartments - being a forgetful soul! A good travel wallet (sadly not a flash EY one!) in my travel bag which I wear across my body when out of the plane, & under my feet whilst flying.

 

[samh004]

Passports in a small wallet with foreign currency etc, and save for passport control, that’s then packed into my backpack, so onboard it would be in the overhead locker.

 

[Peter D]

When flying nothing beats a shirt with a breast pocket, for passport, immigration card and boarding pass.
It’s always on me and easy to pull it out for inspection.

Away from the airport in a travel pouch under my shirt with spare cash and a no frills, no fee credit card for emergencies. In an hotel, I use the safe.


I wouldn’t accept the risk of just putting up with the inconvenience on the rare occasion a PP goes missing. It’s a major inconvenience when overseas.
A few years ago my passport (plus credit cards and cash) was burgled from our hotel room in Dublin while we slept. Fortunately we were spending the next three weeks in England, as Australia House made me go through the whole new passport routine including sending photos back to Oz for endorsement by a respectable person. Being overseas without a passport is no fun.

 

[werdnanostaw]

It's not paranoia but experience.

My passport pouch wasn't really designed to protect it from being stolen if mugged but to prevent it getting pickpocketed.

I've never been mugged but I have had cars broken into in Toledo, Rome and Liverpool. My parents have had cars broken into in Warsaw and Amsterdam.

Whenever I leave the car I always carry the PC and power supply and an external HD with the backups in the other backpack. From 25 years experience in IT I know that every HD will crash eventually. I also backup to the cloud when Internet access is available.

I make sure that everything left in the car is expendable because one day it will be broken into.

If you spoke to my sister you wouldn't be so sanguine about losing your passport or credit cards. While she was in Nigeria she had to organise assistance for many travellers who were destitute after being robbed.

When all is said and done the main reasons I use my passport pouch are:

* convenience - In the morning I put on the pouch and it stays there all day. I always know where my passport is.

* protecting myself from my own stupidity - I have left a book in the pocket on a plane. (I didn't get it back.) I have left a backpack with a PC in it in the cafe at work. (I did get it back.)

My solution to the problem of possibly leaving behind a backpack with a PC in it is to use a coiled key chain to connect the backpack to my belt. I know - paranoia.

I always carry a Kensington laptop lock to chain the PC to the bed frame or pipework in hotel rooms.

Before I retired my job as a civil/systems engineer was to identify problems and devise solutions to prevent them happening.

Losing your passport may have a low probability but the consequences could be very high.

 

[mbeder]

Tend to travel in cargo pants, so it sits in the side pockets where it can't get bent...plus ocassionally in a day-pack (as described by serfty earlier)...

 

[straitman]

Tend to travel in cargo pants, so it sits in the side pockets where it can't get bent...plus ocassionally in a day-pack (as described by serfty earlier)...

Don't let it get wet like I did at Universal studios.

I just travelled India with my Passport in my front jeans pocket. There was no way anyone could get it out without me knowing as I had trouble getting it out when I wanted to do so.

 

[Oneworldplus2]

werdnanstaw, l think that your at an extreme end of the swinging pendulum. I haven't had any issues (yet), but l do keep an eye on my PP and when in a hotel, it's in a safe usually.

Anyways, old mate (Canadian) forgets his passport, a copy of it on his iPad + gets him into the USA. (LINK HERE)

 

[Allan R]

I put my travel documents in a document wallet which contains my passport, immigration card, boarding pass, etc. I keep this in the front zippered section of my carry-on bag in the overhead locker. I also keep a pen, a copy of my passport number, visa number (if applic.), address of where I'll be staying on a post-it note, inside my glasses case in the seat pocket. This is very handy if you don't want to get the document wallet out during the flight and you need to complete destination's inbound immigration card.

 

[Oneworldplus2]

I have also scanned my passport and keep it in the cloud, just in case.

 

[Per_Travels]

I also keep a pen, a copy of my passport number, visa number (if applic.), address of where I'll be staying on a post-it note, inside my glasses case in the seat pocket. This is very handy if you don't want to get the document wallet out during the flight and you need to complete destination's inbound immigration card.

I can rattle off my passport numbers and expiry dates (both Aus and UK) without needing to look at them because I use them so much. My wife on the other hand has no idea about her passport but can rattle off her credit card number without needing to look at it.

 

[notzac]

One wonders how many people would change their tune about where they keep their passport if they became the victim of identity theft through loss of passport :?:

Still maintain that you should keep it within sight or on your person on a plane, and in a safe or something like it in a hotel. I don't know I'd go to the lengths werdnanostaw does, but I'm certainly fairly cautious.

 

[Saji]

I keep one in my pocket and another in my travel walet. Both are secured with sentinel and I have scanned copies of most my docs in my phone and in HDDs should i need them.

 

[tuapekastar]

I have also scanned my passport and keep it in the cloud, just in case.

I've also done this, despite some misgivings about how secure it is. At least I can access it from anywhere in the world provided I have net access.

 

[Oneworldplus2]

Yeah, Google Docs, lol.

 

[Paddy55]

Yeah, Google Docs, lol.

Good idea I hadn't thought of doing that.

Have a Katmandu travel wallet and generally keep it on me or in carryon on-board

 

[Julesmac]

I've also done this, despite some misgivings about how secure it is. At least I can access it from anywhere in the world provided I have net access.

That is a really good idea, thanks

 

[PineappleSkip]

Shirt pocket

there are pics of the 4 different australian passport types in wikipedia

Australian passport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cheers skip

 

[codash1099]

Shirt pocket

there are pics of the 4 different australian passport types in wikipedia

Australian passport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cheers skip

I used to do that until I fell asleep while reclined in F in an A380 and had it drop out. Almost had to strip the seat to find it. Also needed a change of underpants.