A mother has been left stunned after learning her daughter wasn't allowed to bedazzle her passport.

New Jersey realtor Miriam Osherovitz revealed her discovery in a video which has since gone viral on Instagram.

In the video, Osherovitz can be seen attempting to scrape small gems off the front of her daughter's passport with a thin spatula.

"I'll tell you guys something I learned and did not know before. It's illegal to tamper with a legal document such as your passport, which belongs to the government - it doesn't belong to you," she said.

"We got stopped in the airport in Bermuda and customs almost didn't let (my daughter) fly home because my daughter bedazzled her passport.

"So my options now are to pay hundreds of dollars to get her a new one - I can't report it to lost or stolen

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