Are These Parker Inks Washable Or Permanent?

[inkstainedruth]

That's making me think of the trouble my parents had on a trip someplace years ago (might have been the trip to the USSR in the 1970s).  My parents originally had a joint passport, but my uncle warned them that if something happened to one of them, there might be issues at the airport or entering a foreign country.  So my mom got her own passport, but her half of the photo in the joint passport wasn't X-d out (there was just some notification added further in).  So that trip, my mom and I got separated at Customs from my dad & my brother (we were further back in the line), and my dad was getting grief about "Where is this woman in the photo!?"  Of course, my brother was getting grief for having long hair and wearing a big funky wooden cross (not for religious purposes, just because it was cool/"fashionable" back then).

Of course, my passport and my husband's passport have long since expired.  We got them when we were flying up to the Seattle area a number of years ago for the wedding of one of his nieces.  And we brought the passports along in case we decided to see about going up to Vancouver for the day, as well as for ID on the flight out.  Only he decided to use his passport for ID, instead of his driver's license (like I was doing).  And got told, "You never signed this!"  So that made me realize that I'd never signed MY passport, and we're frantically signing them at the gate before our flight out of Pittsburgh (IIRC, I used some Noodler's pen inked up with Noodler's Kung Te Cheng -- which is, of course, pretty much EVERYTHING proof.... ).  

At some point we need to put together the paperwork to get those new "Real ID" licenses -- only, I have a sneaking suspicion it will be EASIER to renew the passports FIRST (assuming he knows what he did with his, of course; whereas I know EXACTLY where mine is -- and just picked it up to try to see what ink I used to sign it... ).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Chris1]

I know we are wandering off on a tangent, but this reminded me of the experience of a work colleague returning from a fortnight trip through Europe, visiting several countries at a time when you had to show your passport (pre-Schengen). When returning to the UK he was asked whether his photo was truly his own. Of course he said yes, only for the immigration officer to point out he'd been travelling on his wife's passport! He was let back in.

 

Returning to the original question, you need to remember Murphy's law which leads to the derived axiom that the washability of any ink is inversely proportional to the value of the item on which the ink was spillled.

[inkstainedruth]

Oh yeah -- Murphy's Law DEFINITELY applies....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[welch]

Passports probably use a material that screams "Tamper!" if you try to alter a signature. Most banks offer "safety checks" that turn funny colors if someone tries to erase a signature or amount. After all, a government wants, more than anything in a passport, to keep it from being changed.

 

Better to ask for another passport rather than try to erase a signature.

[Bird Lives]

You’re all beautiful, thank you for responding.

You’re right, too… better get a new issue.