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As per title, I have recently visited country B with

  1. my passport of country A, which they did not stamp, and
  2. an entry permit, which they stamped

I don't want to forget this trip in case sometime in the future I need to fill in a visa application that requires (say) 10 years of travel history. To this end, am I allowed to

cut out the stamp and attach it (e.g. gluing or stapling) to an empty location on my passport?

The question is not the same as Am I allowed to glue my vaccine card to my passport? because this is an official entry stamp given by a border official, rather than something irrelevant to immigration.

There is no guidance on this on country A's government website and in fact citizens of country A don't tend to use the passport to enter it (there is another more convenient form of identification). So the main concern is getting in trouble with other governments and airlines.

The entry permit is just something I printed before the trip on a piece of A4 paper. It is useless now so I don't manage destroying it. Thank you for your advice.

Edit:

Thank you for your advice. I remembered I already have a spreadsheet for travel information from last time I needed them. I'll simply

  1. update that spreadsheet, and
  2. keep a scan of the entry permit in case I lose it.
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Immigration agents sometimes staple things to passports. The advantage of staples over glue is that they typically can be removed with less damage to the paper.

But still, I wouldn't do it. If I had staple holes in a passport page and an officer or agent of some government asked about them, j would have no qualms about saying "an immigration officer from [insert country here] stapled something there, which they later removed." That's an official use of the passport by an official. There's a good chance that the country's practice of stapling things into travelers' passports can be confirmed. On the other hand, if I had to say "I put something there so I wouldn't lose it," I would be much more wary of the potential negative reaction.

I would keep the paper in another booklet or folder, attached to the passport with a rubber band, as I might attach an expired passport containing a valid visa to my valid passport. Alternatively, I would keep them both together in a passport cover, as suggested in a comment, or in a travel wallet, as I do when I need to travel with a vaccination certificate or other documents that aren't fixed in the passport.

Do keep in mind that many border inspection systems now include passport scanners that require you to present the passport without a cover, so if you do use a passport cover or travel wallet, try to find one that allows you to remove the passport and reinsert it relatively easily.

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