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murray hill farm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 11:38 AM
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Get your passports now!!
Leaving the USA? Not leaving the USA? Either way..please get your passports now! It will get more difficult to do in the future..and in 2005, id chips will be inserted in the passport. At present, a passport is good for 10 years..even if you never use it..at least you have that option to leave and go to another country..if the need arises.
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Delphinus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 11:42 AM
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1. Did it in May - just felt like I needed to.
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 11:44 AM
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2. Can you get a new one if yours isn't expired yet?
I don't want a chip.
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murray hill farm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 11:46 AM
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3. Good question?
i would do it too, if i could..mine is good til 2010..anyone know answer to this? I would think that the answer is "no"..but i do not know!
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Liberaltarian Donating Member (220 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 11:49 AM
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5. your passport has just been destroyed in a fire...
Edited on Tue Nov-30-04 11:49 AM by Liberaltarian
you'd better go apply for a new one...;-)
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 11:49 AM
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6. a decade would put us about 2010 too,
but thinking if we are gonna go, gonna go before then.
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lukasahero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 11:49 AM
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7. You can if you lost it...
You have to fill out a report, but it's probably worth it.
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Liberaltarian Donating Member (220 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 11:50 AM
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8. your passport has just been stolen...
better go apply for a new one...;-)
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 12:49 PM
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19. you all are so funny, that is right, we can lie. bah hahahaha
why didnt i think of that. so simple, yet effective.
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Richard D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 11:47 AM
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4. I'm Jewish
Trust me, alway have a current passport on hand. You never know.
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murray hill farm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 11:58 AM
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11. your culture remembers..and for good reason!
It is such an easy thing to do now..to get that passport! I think the not getting one..everyone getting one..is that feeling that head in the sand is best policy..and that oh so needed belief..that "it could not happen here". Still, it is happening here! Sad to say!!
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Ruby Romaine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 11:55 AM
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9. do you have any details about when the RFID chip will be added?
thanks.
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murray hill farm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 12:00 PM
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13. In 2005..sometime!
I have read that it could be as early as january..but mostly the proposals are for by the end of the year.
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TWiley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 11:56 AM
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10. Actually, that is a very good idea.
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dweller Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 11:58 AM
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12. interesting. Zogby poll had the question
do you have a passport?

in several of the last few surveys i filled. Made me think something was up.

dp
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Toucano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 12:02 PM
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14. "At present, a passport is good for 10 years..."
That can easily be changed.

I'd say get one if you don't have one, but if you've got one that's not due to expire soon, you might be wasting your time trying to extend the life of a chipless passport.

If it really matters to them, they can just cancel all chipless passports and require them to be replaced.
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murray hill farm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 12:03 PM
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15. So true!!
And they probably will do just that.
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murray hill farm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 12:05 PM
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16. addendum
and...if you are worried about the draft, all the more reason to get one now...it really will be impossible to get one after the draft is started.
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 12:34 PM
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17. My passport expired 20 years ago.
When I get a new one do I get a new #? I still have the old one memorized.
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murray hill farm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 12:43 PM
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18. just get a new one..now!!
encourage your children and grandchildren to get them now too! It may be what saves you and them in the coming years. If you do not need it...all the better for us all..but if you do need a passport in the future..and cannot get one...what then? Too late for you all! Ask a german who remembers!
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__Inanna__ Donating Member (246 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 01:31 PM
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20. Mine expired 10 years ago and I tossed it
Can I just go get another one as if I never had one, or am I better off telling them I tossed it because it was expired? I want to take care of this ASAP. Thanks in advance.
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murray hill farm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 01:36 PM
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21. Do not know
Just go and get one...this changes frequently..so just ask..or the form my have the answer to your question...but just do it..and remember to take your whole family along to get theirs too.
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quacker Donating Member (15 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 01:40 PM
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22. Taking my mom..
and little brother (who is 19) to get their photos taken today. :) They were planning on it since I am moving overseas next summer, but this just gave my mom the little push of urgency she needed. Thanks :)


K
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Xenus Sister Donating Member (354 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 07:51 PM
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23. Go to this website: http://travel.state.gov/passport/
http://travel.state.gov/passport/

It has all the information for getting or renewing a passport, and even tells you where your nearest passport office is.

Mine expired a few years ago and now I can't find it, so I have to start from scratch. For a new one, the cost is $85.00. Quite a bit for unemployed me. I understand the importance though. I never should have let mine lapse.
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