Jim
I've had to get on the spot passports a couple of times out of country.
Once for political reasons and ended up with two valid passports. At
the time I had visas for South Africa and was going to work on a job in
Egypt. The gyppos would not issue me a visa with the So Africa stamps
in the passport. I had to keep that one for re-entry to S.A. as the
visas were a bitch to get on short notice and you had to jump through a
lot of hoops.
Having a couple passports raised eyebrows more than a few times and
caused me some police delays at least twice. Sure glad they went to a
10 year validation period. I'll probably expire before the next one
expires ggg
I checked and none of them were any different except place of issue and
as I recall neither of them took more than an hour at the embassy in
both London and Paris.
Cheers
Rocky