I’ve been lazy renewing my passport, but I’m going to do it today. That’s because Passport Fees are increasing on July 13, 2010. I knew there was an increase coming, but I kept putting it off. Now I have to get going.
And, I can thank Lori Rice’s article on Galavanting for reminding me to take care of this.
Here are the basics:
- First time applicants will be paying 35% more as the price for a passport book increases from $100 to $135.
- Travelers will now be charged $110 instead of $75 to renew a current passport.
- Likely the most difficult change to accept for many regular travelers, however, is adding additional passport pages. The fre
If we’ve heard it said once, we’re heard it a million times: “Don’t worry about the language thing. They all speak English over there.” We’ve even heard one man crass enough to say that if you waved an American twenty dollar bill (he called it a “handy Andy”), anyone in the world could understand your English. While he may have had a point about American money, albeit a crude one, he really kind of missed the point. He figured all he needed to travel abroad were travelers’ checks and travel insurance.
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