It matters not if your passeport is stamped. I have three passeports, French, Moroccan and UK ( currently expired). When leaving CdG ten days ago my French pass was stamped, it bothered me not. Upon arrival in Maroc I used my local passeport, it was stamped. When leaving in a few days, it may or may not be stamped again as will my French pass upon my return on the journey back via Spain and onward into France. I care not and it does not make a difference.
Probably best to make sure that the same passport is stamped on entry to/exit from a single territory though - and I suspect that youâd have an easier time should you wish to enter the USA on your French (or UK, if updated) passport than you would on the Moroccan one.
You can ask them not to stamp it but they can stamp it if they wish even though it makes no difference.
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I do not understand, why would I wish to enter the USA ever again?
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Reminds me of the days, long passed, when I ran out of spaces on my passport as I wandered around the world. But the only thing I had to make sure of was not to cross the border into Israel because in those days, '60s, if you had an Israeli stamp you couldnât enter an Arab country, or so I was told.
These days of course, I wouldnât have to be reminded, it simply wouldnât arise.
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Very true. I had two UK passports for a time as work required me to visit Israel and Arab countries. I was always careful to leave the non-required passport at homeâŚ
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Just using it as an example 
On the one occasion that I went to Dubai, my brand-new UK passport was scrutinised very carefully by the immigration officer, and he asked me where my other passport was.
I think he felt its newness was suspicious and meant it was a second passport to hide the fact that I had been to Israel (which I hadnât).
My passport was brand new simply because my old one had expired!
Luckily he let me in, as I was shooting a wedding there a day or two later and being held or deported would have been awkward, to say the least.
Didnât Clarkson, May and Hammond have to be careful to have multiple passports when filming around the Middle East?
I do not understand those from brexitland complaining about passports being stamped in Europe.
They, the collective they, voted to drift away from the EU with all the consequences laid out before them, so they must pay the price regardless if they are attached to an apron string of an EU national.
You used to get the Israeli stamps on a bit of paper stapled into your passport so you could ditch it easily.
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All of my Soviet and Russian visas were always on a separate sheet, part of it was detached on entry and the rest kept on exit.
Iâve been thinking over this very interesting item since being asked about it by friends recently ( Irish wife, Brit husband). Iâve tracked down the official guidance in the EUâs Practical Handbook for Border Guards. It is (happily)
entirely consistent with the Europa.eu guidance Helenochka refers to above.
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So, EU citizen with non-EU wife here. How could I make use of this, or would it just be better to buy a 1 year visitors visa and not worry about it?
Looks like itâs good news for you Ancient as sheâd only need to apply for some sort of visa if she was ever going to do a single stay of more than 90 days in any EU country. Which youâve said is not your plan.
The cherry on the cake, having you as a husband, is that she isnât subject to the 90 days in 180 rule. So it sounds like you could exit the EU, say for a week, then come back to any EU country, even the same one, for a further stay of up to 90 days.
Not at all an expert but thatâs how I read it.
The rule might include Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein as well I guess.
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Absolutely. 
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Yes, my brother had to keep changing his Israeli diplomatic number plates too for entry in Jordan and the Gaza strip area when he was doing cemetary inspections, he said it was a right pain in the arse every few weeks, along with all the different bits of paperwork too! He was glad to get out of there
I remember in the 80s if you ventured out of Greece by boat, as my wife and I did once to visit Turkey, you had to be careful not to acquire a Turkish stamp in your passport as the Greek immigration officials could stop you boarding your flight home from Greece. What would have happened then I donât know. A loose paper visa was issued just as they do now (or at least when I was last there) in Cyprus when crossing the border, even to visit the other side of Nicosia.
What a time to visit Turkey - not long after watching the film Midnight Express. Troups on buses, imagination running riot in Istanbul.
Apologies for thread drift.
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I remember when we were in Greek Cyprus about 20 years ago they warned us when crossing to the Turkish part of Nicosia not to let them stamp our passports, as then we would have to come back via Istanbul!
Iâd forgotten about that gruesome film.