Passport
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gathermewool
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I guess you mostly travel within North America?
Awesome; most people don't ever get a Passport. As gathermewool obliquely suggested, the card is not useable for some travel - the full Passport is required.
Chart is here:
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/apply-renew-passport/card.html
Chart is here:
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/apply-renew-passport/card.html
We have to have a DL in Kansas with a star plus passport to fly.
https://www.ksrevenue.org/dovrealid.html
https://www.ksrevenue.org/dovrealid.html
Our drivers licenses are "enhanced" and allow us to drive across the border to the U.S. but passports are required to fly to the U.S. or outside of Canada so no "passport card" is required.
That said most traveling Canucks have a passport and now you can get a 10 year so it makes the cost not terrible at all amortized over that period.
That said most traveling Canucks have a passport and now you can get a 10 year so it makes the cost not terrible at all amortized over that period.
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Originally Posted by JLTD
Awesome; most people don't ever get a Passport. As gathermewool obliquely suggested, the card is not useable for some travel - the full Passport is required.
Chart is here:
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/apply-renew-passport/card.html
It would be useful for other purposes like proving citizenship when you're stopped near the border and asked for your papers. The border patrol always had the right to check immigration status within 100 miles of the border, but I believe that also includes the water so they can go 100 miles inland from the water. That has happened to a few people I know, they ended up at a checkpoint that had never been there before in years past.
Awesome; most people don't ever get a Passport. As gathermewool obliquely suggested, the card is not useable for some travel - the full Passport is required.
Chart is here:
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/apply-renew-passport/card.html
It would be useful for other purposes like proving citizenship when you're stopped near the border and asked for your papers. The border patrol always had the right to check immigration status within 100 miles of the border, but I believe that also includes the water so they can go 100 miles inland from the water. That has happened to a few people I know, they ended up at a checkpoint that had never been there before in years past.
4WD
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Ordered my 4th US passport today …
I need to renew mine also,it's already been 10yrs .Where has the time gone
Why get the passport card and not the passport itself?
My wife and I have passport cards. I've never used mine. My wife uses hers as ID at casinos. Sometimes they ask her what state it's from. She's say "New Jersey". They write that down.
My wife and I have passport cards. I've never used mine. My wife uses hers as ID at casinos. Sometimes they ask her what state it's from. She's say "New Jersey". They write that down.
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Originally Posted by gathermewool
I guess you mostly travel within North America?
Only reason is doing a motorcycle trip into Canada, this year or next. My uncle thinks he finally got his straightened out for riding with his father to Alaska in August-good thing he started in December, because it was way more hassle than it should have been. (His original birth certificate no longer exists.) My wife got hers done last year-a bit more trouble than mine, because she was born in Cuba, and has TWO legal name changes to deal with.
I guess you mostly travel within North America?
Only reason is doing a motorcycle trip into Canada, this year or next. My uncle thinks he finally got his straightened out for riding with his father to Alaska in August-good thing he started in December, because it was way more hassle than it should have been. (His original birth certificate no longer exists.) My wife got hers done last year-a bit more trouble than mine, because she was born in Cuba, and has TWO legal name changes to deal with.
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Originally Posted by dishdude
If anyone ends up travelling a lot, Global Entry is well worth it. Comes with TSA precheck and makes going through customs/immigration a breeze.
I keep saying I'm going to do that but never do it. I have TSA precheck. I hate waiting in line to reenter the country.
If anyone ends up travelling a lot, Global Entry is well worth it. Comes with TSA precheck and makes going through customs/immigration a breeze.
I keep saying I'm going to do that but never do it. I have TSA precheck. I hate waiting in line to reenter the country.
Originally Posted by Jarlaxle
Naah...I do not fly under any circumstances.
Fair enough, but jeez, that would seem to limit your travel options somewhat.
Naah...I do not fly under any circumstances.
Fair enough, but jeez, that would seem to limit your travel options somewhat.
I regret not getting the passport card too when I renewed my passport.
You can also get a duplicate passport in case one gets "left behind" somewhere. I think that's still the case.
You can pay for the expedited process but it still takes longer than quoted but imagine how long it takes if you don't do it!
You can also get a duplicate passport in case one gets "left behind" somewhere. I think that's still the case.
You can pay for the expedited process but it still takes longer than quoted but imagine how long it takes if you don't do it!
4WD
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Originally Posted by 555
I regret not getting the passport card too when I renewed my passport.
You can also get a duplicate passport in case one gets "left behind" somewhere. I think that's still the case.
You can pay for the expedited process but it still takes longer than quoted but imagine how long it takes if you don't do it!
On my second extra passport … (not duplicate = second number) …
Those have gone from 2 year to 4 year.
They no longer sew pages in either … so selected an extra page option on the 10 year I just ordered
I regret not getting the passport card too when I renewed my passport.
You can also get a duplicate passport in case one gets "left behind" somewhere. I think that's still the case.
You can pay for the expedited process but it still takes longer than quoted but imagine how long it takes if you don't do it!
On my second extra passport … (not duplicate = second number) …
Those have gone from 2 year to 4 year.
They no longer sew pages in either … so selected an extra page option on the 10 year I just ordered
Originally Posted by 4WD
Originally Posted by 555
I regret not getting the passport card too when I renewed my passport.
You can also get a duplicate passport in case one gets "left behind" somewhere. I think that's still the case.
You can pay for the expedited process but it still takes longer than quoted but imagine how long it takes if you don't do it!
On my second extra passport … (not duplicate = second number) …
Those have gone from 2 year to 4 year.
They no longer sew pages in either … so selected an extra page option on the 10 year I just ordered
Good to know, thanks for clarifying.
Originally Posted by 555
I regret not getting the passport card too when I renewed my passport.
You can also get a duplicate passport in case one gets "left behind" somewhere. I think that's still the case.
You can pay for the expedited process but it still takes longer than quoted but imagine how long it takes if you don't do it!
On my second extra passport … (not duplicate = second number) …
Those have gone from 2 year to 4 year.
They no longer sew pages in either … so selected an extra page option on the 10 year I just ordered
Good to know, thanks for clarifying.
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I hate that they stopped selling extra pages. I need another one this summer, I need to make sure to get the larger option!
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