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Guesthouse wants to keep our passports overnight for a police form - photocopy or a hard no

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Cormac Healy•174 rep•2

Third hotel in a week. First two scanned the bio page and gave it back. This one in Kandy says police collection in the morning and they need the book. We have a train to catch in our heads. Is this a real Sri Lanka thing or the start of a story.

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I photocopy or photograph the bio page, you sign the register, passport stays in your bag. That satisfies the book I have to keep. Anyone who wants the physical passport "for police tomorrow" can take a colour copy. If they insist, you can offer to walk to the station with them. Do not leave the only document that gets you on a plane in a reception drawer.

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Waruni Abeykoon•1210 rep•1

We said copy only, they folded. Fine.

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Itzel Ramirez•359 rep•2

Same energy as a tuk who wants your passport as "security" for a helmet. No.

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