Passport Card: Good News and Bad News

June 14, 2008 · by Mary VanMeer
Filed Under Travel Information · Comment 

The Department of State has taken action to help simplify at least ONE of the travel hassles … dragging your passport around if you’re only going to Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Bermuda. 

Now (well, in July) you can get a “Passport Card” the size of a credit card that will get you into our neighboring countries of Mexico and Canada, including cruise travel throughout the Caribbean and to Bermuda.

The Department of State says that the card will “carry the rights and privileges of the U.S. passport book and will be adjudicated to the exact same standards.”  That’s the good news.

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June 8, 2008 · by Mary VanMeer
Filed Under Welcome All Thrifty Travelers! · Comment 

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