In other European countries there may be further requirements. The Dutch privacy authority (my poor translation) states that in the Netherlands hotels and B&B's may not copy ID-documents but they are legally required to check your id and record your name and address, type of id, arrival and departure date. I don't know if any cases of identity-theft have been traced back to copies of documents held by hotels but it is always a risk.However, when you need a place to sleep, you cannot postpone this until you win some expensive legal fight, so the can get away with it. At the very least they are not complying with GDPR because they took too much information and they are not handling it securely. They must have your data but they certainly do not have the right to take a picture of your passport and to handle it in such a insecure way by storing a copy on a personal device.Then you could just send them a secure passport copy. Maybe something like this is also available to you. The Dutch govenment has an app that does exactely this, for when companies ask a person for a copy of their document. One thing you can do when they make a paper copy is ask to cross out the info they dont need like you personal id number, picture, height, etc and write the name of the recipient (hotel) all over the copy.It is easier for the hotel to process your information in this way and after all they are in the hospitality business, not the information security business. Having said all that, if you wanted to start a legal fight, the first point of reference is probably the GDPR, since they are probably not keeping your data strictly as they ought to. Similarly not that much on the average passport is usefully secret, given the number of places it gets taken during travel. (b)on or before his departure from the premises, inform the keeper of the premises of his next destination and, if it is known to him, his full address there.Īs such they have no legal duty to copy your passport, but I suspect you also don't have a legal right to a bed there without going through the hostel's procedures. (a)on arriving at the premises, inform the keeper of the premises of the number and place of issue of his passport, certificate of registration or other document establishing his identity and nationality and In addition, you will be reviled by your fellow passengers for holding up the check-in line.I'm not qualified to answer point 1), but as far as I'm aware, the legal side of this is still the Immigration (Hotel Records) Order 1972 which requires lodgings keepers to record the names and nationalities of their adult (over 16) guests and for "aliens" (which for a couple more weeks means non-EU citizens)Įvery such person who is an alien shall also. What will happen if you refuse to surrender your passport? Read the T&Cs- you will be denied boarding. Once you have reported your passport lost or stolen, the State Department invalidates it. By mail: Use Form DS-64 and mail it to the address on the form. Why do mass market lines not do this (all passengers on all itineraries)? They'd lose business from folks who don't have a passport and this is actually somewhat of an amenity meaning labor for the purser without charging you a fee. By phone: Call toll-free 1-87 (TTY 1-88). If needed at a particular port, purser assures that you have it in hand, etc. Should you ever miss the ship, no need for purser to search for your passport to transfer to port agent to hold for you. It also stops non-savvy travelers from taking their passports ashore where they might be lost or stolen. By surrendering it, your passport is secure and available to the purser at ports requiring document examination (without you needing to rise early or otherwise submit/retrieve your passport). Pretty much every premium/luxury line requires all passengers on all itineraries to produce and, most often, surrender (to the purser) a valid passport.įirstly, the passport requirement leaves no question about what minimum ID you need to board. Which cruise line? Did more than one cruise line do this? Why do they feel the need to take them? Would you have been denied boarding/kicked off the ship if you refused to give up your passport? I don't trust anyone other than my mother to hold onto my passport.
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