Jan S. Krogh's 
Visas and Passport 
Stamps from Around the World

Below are images of entry and exit stamps from my passports. I have got passport stamps from many, but far from all, countries I have visited in my passports. I've tried to pair up the entry and exit stamp from some visits.
Austria Germany Liechtenstein Sweden
Belarus   Hungary  Lithuania Switzerland
Bulgaria Israel
 Norway Ukraine
Czech Republic Italy Poland  USA
Egypt
 Jersey Romania
Estonia Jordan
 San Marino
Finland Latvia Slovakia
Gaza Lebanon
 Soviet Union

All flag images are borrowed from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Flags by country

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Austria

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Belarus

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Bulgaria

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Czech Republic

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Egypt

One month Egypt visa, December 2009. Entry at Sharm el Sheikh (20 Dec) and exits at Taba (22 Dec) and Sharm el Sheikh (27 Dec). The last exit closed the visa (stamp on the visa label), while the Taba exit seems not to have done so. Entry stamp at Taba with text "Valid for Aqaba Cosst & St. Cathriane for 15 Days" (sic!). Since the visa (left) probably was not closed it was thereafter anyway no problem for me to go to Cairo by own car and return to Sharm el Sheikh.

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Estonia

Double entry visa issued in Vilnius from August 1993. Stamped in Pärnu (entry) and Tallinn (exit) and at re-entry to Tallinn in September. One- time visa for 6 days for me and my daughter issued in Vilnius in August 1995. 
Soviet entry stamp at Tallinn on 7 Jan 1992, since Russian border guards still controlled the Estonian border, more than 4 months after Estonia's independence – and one week after the Soviet Union seized to exist...!. Independent Estonian border stamps from Tallinn 26 (exit) and 27 May 1992 (entry).
Entry stamp at Pärnu 7 Jan 1994 and exit stamp next day. Entry stamp at Ikla and exit stamp from Tallinn, both 1 July 1996.

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Finland

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Gaza

As a member of the United Nation's force in Lebanon I visited the UN Beach Club in Gaza during the intifada of 1988. This is a memory of the visit.

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Germany

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Hungary

Entry stamp from Rajka Exit stamp from Komarom Entry stamp from Satoraljaujhely Exit stamp from Biharkeresztes

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Israel

Entry stamp at Ben Gurion, April 1988. Transit from Taba (Egypt border) to Arava (Jordan border) and back again, December 2009.

 

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Italy

Exit stamp from Paglino border station to Switzerland.

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Jersey

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Jordan

Free one-month ASEZ (Aqaba region) visa, Araba border to Israel, December 2009. Exit stamp (charge JOD 5 [USD 7]) from Araba border to Israel.

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Latvia

The passport stamps of December 1992 were still dated by writing. For many years the exit stamp looked like this example.

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Lebanon

Lebanese visa issued in Stockholm. Entry (red) and exit (black) stamps from Beirut airport, May 2009. One month stay granted (visa free, one time entry) for Norwegian citizens.

 

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Liechtenstein

This is the entry stamp from Ruggell border station to Austria. For the amount of 1,50 euro one can buy this stamp at the Vaduz tourist information.

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Lithuania
Still three months after the Lithuanian independence in 1991 it was only possible to get issued a 10 days one-entry visa. This was somewhat complicated for us foreigners living in Lithuania wishing to have a legal stay! Just after the independence I went from Vilnius to Riga. At the border I requested a stamp in order to prove when I had been outside the country. But even at the main highway from Latvia to Lithuania there was no passport control yet, only custom's control. Anyway I barely got a custom's stamp in my passport with handwritten date, so I dared to apply for a visa. (The reason for this was probably that Lithuania did not yet have any proper migration law.)
In 1998 as a journalist I got issued a Lithuanian service stay permit. In 2001 I got issued the "last" Lithuanian stay permit – number LT999999!
Entry stamp from Ignalina 16 
July 2003.		 Entry stamp from Kalvarija 21 July 1998. Entry stamp from Kaunas (1998). Entry stamp from Klaipeda (1997).
Exit stamp from Kaunas 29 
Dec 1998. Handwritten "+1" 
means accompanied by 1 child.		 Exit stamp Lazdijai 9 May 1996. New post-May 2004 European style Lithuanian exit stamp from 2006. Entry stamp at Pagegiai at 27 Mar 2002.
Exit stamp at Pagegiai 27 Mar 2002. Handwritten exit stamp from Salociai 14 Dec 1992 Handwritten entry stamp from Salociai 18 Dec 1992 Entry stamp from Salociai 19 May 1993.
Entry stamp from Salociai 8 
Jan 1994.		  Entry stamp at Salociai 24 Mar 1994. Entry stamp from Salociai 3 Aug 1995.  Pre-EU Lithuanian entry stamp from Siauliai 9 July 2003.
Exit stamp from Varena 14 Aug
2000.		 Exit stamp from Vilnius 17 Apr 1996. Entry stamp from Vilnius 21 Apr 1996. Entry stamp from Vilnius 19 Nov 2000.

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Norway

A seldom stamp: A 1991 entry-stamp to Storskog border station at the border to the Soviet Union. Entry stamp to Bergen airport on the West Coast of Norway. This was on a travel from Lithuania via Copenhagen, Denmark. Entry stamp to Oslo airport, Gardermoen. The airport moved from Fornebu on 8 October 1998, less than one month earlier.

  

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Poland

This is the ordinary visa I got on 26 July 1990 from the Polish embassy in Oslo. Notice entry stamp from Warsaw on 24 Oct 1990. After I came to Poland I was invited to Vilnius by the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Lithuania. Returning from Lithuania on 3 Nov 1990 by train through the Byelorussian Soviet Republic it was discovered after passing into Poland that I had only an one-entry visa to this country. Therefore on the border between Soviet Union and Poland it was issued (for a small amount of zlotys) an emergency entry visa. By some reason I did not need any extra exit visa!
Entry stamp from Warsaw 
24 Oct 1990.		 Exit stamp from Swinoujscie 
10 May 1996.		 Entry stamp from Barwinek 
4 Jan 2001.		 Exit stamp from Swiecko 
25 Jul 2001.

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Romania

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San Marino

San Marino's Tourist Office was issuing this tourist stamp for 2000 lire.

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Slovakia

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Soviet Union

This Soviet visa to the Republic of Lithuania I got at the Soviet consulate in Warsaw on 26 
Oct 1990 prior to my first visit to Lithuania. The visa was valid from 1 to 10 Nov 1990, but 
actually we landed in Moscow on 30 Oct, and did not get any problem. Maybe due to 
the fact that it was a correspondent visa. The document was registered at OVIR in Vilnius 
on 31 Oct, the next day after arrival.
This Soviet visa I got from the Soviet consulate in Oslo previous to my visit to Lithuania 
before the 1991 revolution. On the very day of the Moscow coup d'etat I had to rush to the 
Vilnius OVIR office in order to get the needed registration. Four days later it was clear that 
Lithuania de facto was an independent country.

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Sweden

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Switzerland

Entry stamp from Ramsen border station to Germany.

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Ukraine

Entry stamp at Rava Rus'ka and exit visa at Jagodin, from June 2008.

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United States of America

B-1 and B-2 multiple and indefinitely visa from Oslo of 17 Mar 1988 cancelled without prejudice in 1990. B-1 and B-2 multiple and indefinitely visa from Oslo of 13 Jun 1990 cancelled without prejudice in Vilnius on 28 Feb 1992. Handwritten multiple and indefinitely  B-1 and B-2 visa from Vilnius of 28 Feb 1992.
Entry stamp from J. F. Kennedy 
International Airport in New York 
City 22 April 1988.

 

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Updated: 21.03.2010