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Just a heads up if you are going to be traveling international your travel must be complete 6 months before the actual expiration date on your passport. Leaving for Mexico Saturday and just found out as I was confirming flights Deb's passport expires Oct 10. I asked here earlier and she didn't realize there was a specific date instead of a month. Any ways just make sure your travel is complete a full 6 month before expiration.Actually renewing 7 months before your passport expires is prudent. Deb now has the pleasure of rushing out to get a new passport photo,then driving to passport office in Buffalo for an 11am appointment and maybe a return trip tomorrow to pick up the new passport if not ready today
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Holy sheet, Dan. Now you have me wondering.... We're planning an October trip again this year. Not sure on the expiration of our passports.
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i need to go get one, my brother and i are planning on going to the Philippines in a few months for fishing and chicks.
plus my buddy Raul invites me every year to go to cabo and i haven't gone because i haven't made the time to go get a passport.
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My wife just renewed and they say up to 6-8 weeks to process. She got hers back right around 2 weeks.
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Need to get a new one. One of these days I might just run away to Canada to fish and stay there.
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Got mine through the local Post Office. Took ten days.
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Need to get a new one. One of these days I might just run away to Canada to fish and stay there. Canada is an interesting country. They have a handle on immigration. So go fish, but I'll bet if you decided to stay they would kick you out.
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I had to renew passports for both my kids recently.
I agree that you should definitely allow plenty of time. Once filed, the renewal applications get processed fairly quickly, but there are a lot of new requirements that must be met. Also, our local post office (which is a great way to do it) is getting dozens of applications every day, which clogs them up.
One other thought. These are post office employees. Nothing against them, as the ones tasked for this do know how to do it, but like so many low level civil service types, they know only one way to proceed and have no flexibility whatever. That also slows down the process.
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Thanks for the heads up. I had no idea.
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Yep thanks Dan. Another one here that needs to start the process
Just looked at mine last night Didn't pay any attention to expiration
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My passport expired right after the US Government changed the laws about re-entry.
I had not planned any International travel so I did not renew.
Well, the wife and I decided to go visit Vancouver last year. I went through the whole application process again. Because I did this 6 months prior to travel and had no worries about processing time. Everybody told me that I needed to spend the extra money for quick processing. I told them that I had 6 months and that I was not in any big hurry. I did not spend the money, and only paid for the "extra" 30 pages to be added to the booklet, and paid for the plastic ID card.
And guess what? It cam back to me in 10 business days. Sure glad I planned ahead... just in case.
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Typical government BS. Should be able to use a passport until it expires or the date is meaningless.
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Your global entry or local boater option cards will need to be updated with the new passport number as well.
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Do I need one to get into Texas?
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I had all the paper work and details in order before Deb woke up this morning. She got here picture and shuffled of to Buffalo. She was in 15 minutes before her appointment She was done in less than 5 minutes, she's having lunch and shopping to kill time. It will be ready for her to pick up at 3 pm $110 for the renewal fee and $60 to expedite The mall shopping will likely be many times that
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Good Head's up Dan. Additionally, also consider getting one of the credit card versions - I've heard there are times when they are helpful.
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I had all the paper work and details in order before Deb woke up this morning. She got here picture and shuffled of to Buffalo. She was in 15 minutes before her appointment She was done in less than 5 minutes, she's having lunch and shopping to kill time. It will be ready for her to pick up at 3 pm $110 for the renewal fee and $60 to expedite The mall shopping will likely be many times that Dude, you've been had.
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Do I need one to get into Texas? Probably you do from Colorado. As I recall, the Texans are those highly noisy visitors that infest Colorado on vacation, and so there is a bit of testiness between the two. Here in NM, we recently had a scare where the feds were not going to recognize NM drivers licenses as proper ID for getting into federal facilities, because they were being issued to "undocumented" aliens. It took a rule change to issue a different kind of license to non-citizens, failing which we were all going to have to use passports as ID.
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