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My husband and I just completed the CR1 visa process. He received his passport with the CR1 visa. However, he noticed recently that his passport was damaged with pages falling out. He applied for and received his new passport. As long as he presents both passports at the POE, should we face any issues? The visa is valid and fully intact without damage. 

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Normally, it is not a problem to have the visa in an old passport and travel with it and the new passport.  However, with a passport where pages are falling out, it might generate a question or two.

  1. Is the page with the visa on it one that is/has fallen out of passport?
  2. If it is, is the passport book the type that has the passport book number or passport number printed (or entered in some other manner) on each page? 

If the answer to #1 is "no", and the book is still together enough that it will not do so before he travels, you shouldn't have a problem -- especially if the answer to #2 is "yes".

 

If the answer to #1 is "yes" and the answer to #2 is "no", I would contact the Embassy that issued the visa and seek their opinions on whether there is a concern.

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2 hours ago, jan22 said:

Normally, it is not a problem to have the visa in an old passport and travel with it and the new passport.  However, with a passport where pages are falling out, it might generate a question or two.

  1. Is the page with the visa on it one that is/has fallen out of passport?
  2. If it is, is the passport book the type that has the passport book number or passport number printed (or entered in some other manner) on each page? 

If the answer to #1 is "no", and the book is still together enough that it will not do so before he travels, you shouldn't have a problem -- especially if the answer to #2 is "yes".

 

If the answer to #1 is "yes" and the answer to #2 is "no", I would contact the Embassy that issued the visa and seek their opinions on whether there is a concern.

Just looked at the passport itself again. All of the pages have detached from the hard passport exterior. Those pages are attached to one another however they are completely separable from the hard exterior. That's to say that the demographic page and the visa itself are attached to one another.

 

and yes, the passport number itself as on each page

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1 hour ago, Cgarrett said:

Just looked at the passport itself again. All of the pages have detached from the hard passport exterior. Those pages are attached to one another however they are completely separable from the hard exterior. That's to say that the demographic page and the visa itself are attached to one another.

 

and yes, the passport number itself as on each page

In that case, I would say no worries.

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Small addition.  I needed to pull out my passport today anyway and so I checked.  In my 2014 issued US passport, the passport number does NOT appear on any page besides the data page itself.  Seems like it would be a good idea, BUT I also think the reason USCIS wants to see a copy of all pages of a US passport when a petitioner is using it as evidence of citizenship, is that the patterns or images on the pages are systematically created, so that they can be compared to a database, to see, for example, page 24 of the copy shows the image of a bear in  river with a fish in its mouth, like it is supposed to.  Each series of passports has different images.  I have no idea how often the series changes.

 

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