passports
| 2:30PM 6/30/2010
Just as WalletPop warned you in March, The price of a United States passport will zoom from $75 to $110, plus a $25 application fee, on Tuesday, July 13. So if you have been putting off getting one, submit your application right away to save money.
Against the advice of people who make their...
| 3:15PM 3/04/2010
Given our limitations in vacation time and geography, it's already hard enough to get Americans to venture out and see the rest of the big, wide world.
The State Department apparently isn't concerned about helping us integrate into the global village, though, because it's on the verge of pulling...
| 11:00AM 6/05/2009
As of June 1, Border Control requires all U.S. citizens to have a passport if they're crossing an international border. If you're a first-time applicant, that means $85 to $100 in fees, and that's if you don't need it in a hurry. But there's another expense beyond that: You'll also need to have...
| 4:00PM 6/01/2009
No whining! The deadline was supposed to come in 2006, and then Congress pushed it back. But today, the party's over. If U.S. citizens want to set foot outside this country, they now need some kind of passport. That includes cruise ports, Mexico, and Canada, places for which a driver's license used...
| 1:00PM 11/05/2008
The days of being able to use your driver's license and a birth certificate to cross into America by land or sea will officially end on June 1. No whining this time! Congress already pushed back the deadline for you back in 2006. Now it's going to happen. They mean it this time.
From June on, the...
| 11:00AM 10/25/2008
A representative of the Government Publishing Office (GPO) called into question parts of the story I posted earlier this week, based on a Washington Times story about the offshore outsourcing of American Passport production. After reading over the responses from the GPO to the Times story, I...
| 6:30PM 9/10/2008
Well, here's a cool idea. I can't believe the federal government thought of it and actually made it happen.For Americans who travel a lot across borders by land or sea, say to Canada, Mexico, or on Caribbean cruises, the State Department is now issuing zippy little Passport Cards, which are sized...