LPT: When travelling and in charge of multiple passports (such as a parent holding them for kids), assign and attach a different coloured paper clip to the front cover of each. It makes it super easy to identify whose is whose without having to open it to the picture page.

Submitted by travelingsoul83 t3_z8x37r in LifeProTips

Nothing can be attached permanently to passports which is why the paper clip works. When I recently travelled with my son I put a blue paper clip on his and nothing on mine. I always knew right off the bat which one was his. There was no fumbling with them at the gate or through customs.

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DroolingSlothCarpet t1_iydx84u wrote

Two at the gate, one being an adult?

Two at customs, one being an adult?

Hand over both passports. It's that simple.

Why are people constantly trying to reinvent the wheel.

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DivvySUCKS t1_iye6e9e wrote

But then I have to remember which color goes with which person....back to square one!

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LuvCilantro t1_iye47s9 wrote

As the passport holder when we travel, this is a good idea. My cross-body purse is safer than anybody's backpack, back pocket or shirt pocket as it has inner zipped compartments, and I always keep passports in there. Every time we needed to show them (to board a plane, to get on a ferry, to register at hotels, to enter certain museums and attractions - all stuff we did recently) I had to open them to see who they belonged to. Some places require everyone to show their own passports, regardless of age. A color coded post-it note would work as well.

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DroolingSlothCarpet t1_iye532x wrote

>My cross-body purse is safer than anybody's backpack, back pocket or shirt pocket as it has inner zipped compartments

So do backpacks

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LuvCilantro t1_iye5sug wrote

Yes, but they are typically in the back, out of sight, whereas my hand is always on my purse. Still better than shirt or back pocket.

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FitVIP486 t1_iydvrzn wrote

Easier to just put their name on the outside

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movieball t1_iydzcf8 wrote

Huge waste of time.

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eye_spi t1_iye0uhn wrote

I know, right? I mean, it just takes soooo long to put a paperclip on something. Ain't nobody got time for that!

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Boarderdudeman t1_iyeezzn wrote

This is one of the niche-est LPTs on here. And not worth me going to buy muti-color paper clips.

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LeviathanGank t1_iyefzul wrote

I just keep them all inserted to the picture page then the next in the same page open to the next.. poppa, momma then baba.. simple. return to form after checkpoint.

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