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Can I travel with this white scratch on my passport ?

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NightShifter1

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Nov 19, 2020
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I am from Morocco I got my student visa and I booked a ticket flight from Morocco to Toronto. Today I accidentally scratched my first page of the passport, the scratch is coming from my hair to the right of the picture frame as shown on the link bellow. Will I be denied entering Canada ? (The student visa page is perfectly fine and the flight is confirmed)
https://imgur.com/aLezr8u
 
I don’t think you would have any problem.
Won’t have any issues if the passport is machine readable.
good luck
 
gg9 said:
I don’t think you would have any problem.
Won’t have any issues if the passport is machine readable.
good luck
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Thank you. What do you mean by machine readable ? A scratch will mess with the electronic algorithm of my first page, no ?
 
NightShifter1 said:
Thank you. What do you mean by machine readable ? A scratch will mess with the electronic algorithm of my first page, no ?
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No. You are good to go. Machine readable part is that bottom with <<<< stuff >>>> etc
 
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NightShifter1 said:
Thank you. What do you mean by machine readable ? A scratch will mess with the electronic algorithm of my first page, no ?
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What do you mean?

Chips tend to be in a back or front page but not on biodata.

It's not great what you've done. Up to CBSA officer who will have heard it all, such as washing machine, back pocket, dog, child, occasionally wife.
 
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jigzyy said:
Not every passport is chip enabled.
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After 26 years working in the job, I think I just might know that not all passports have chips. How relevant is that to my statement of fact that the passport chip is more important than the mrz?
 
NightShifter1 said:
On the front cover of my passport there is a small gold camera logo at the bottom ,it's still clear and untouched, so I guess I am good ? I hope so.
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The chip logo is not the chip. Some passports you can see the chip, some you can feel but not see, some are very well hidden.
 
Bishops2020 said:
The chip logo is not the chip. Some passports you can see the chip, some you can feel but not see, some are very well hidden.
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Do you think they will reject me beacause of the scratch ? Every other part in the passport like the canadian visa page is perfectly fine.
 
NightShifter1 said:
Do you think they will reject me beacause of the scratch ? Every other part in the passport like the canadian visa page is perfectly fine.
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Hard to know the tolerance levels for passport damage for CBSA and I cannot see how bad damage is from photos looking on my mobile phone.
 
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