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Damaged Passport Ruins Canadian Couple’s Vacation

Larry Caza and his girlfriend just wanted to spend Christmas somewhere warm. So, the Canadian couple booked a tropical vacation in Mexico over the holidays. Unfortunately, Mr. Caza's passport was water-damaged, and when they arrived at the airport airline employees refused to let them on the plane. He described what happened in a report on CTV News: "The girl looked at our passports, looked at mine, and then said, ‘I'm going to have to talk to the supervisor. The supervisor…

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New Emergency Passport Office to Open in El Paso

El Paso residents in need of emergency passport services will soon be able to obtain one close to home. The new El Paso passport agency office is expected to be open in March, and the Department of State held a pre-opening event this week to celebrate. At the event, Jacqueline Harley-Bell of passport operations explained the how the new office will help citizens of El Paso and surrounding areas: "When they go to acceptance facilities, which are the post offices…

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An Express Passport to a Better Christmas Shopping Experience

Ahhh, Wal-Mart in December...screaming children, endless lines to check out, and shopping cart traffic jams blocking the aisles. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas... Wal-Mart may be the quintessential American Christmas shopping experience, but this time of year makes me dream longingly of Europe's Christmas markets. A tradition that started in Germany and has now spread all over Europe, Christmas markets feature lots of food, drinks and unique items to fill your family's stockings. There's also glühwein, hot…

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Can I Expedite a New Passport?

When you apply for a passport for the first time, you are required to appear in person to do so. Does that mean that you can't use an expediting company to get your passport quickly? At RushMyPassport, we get this question a lot. It's natural to be concerned, but the answer is reassuring: Of course you can! You'll still need to appear in person at a passport acceptance facility, but there's no need to wait weeks for your passport to…

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An Expedited Passport to See Venice in Winter

Summer is Venice's high season, so most travel guides recommend visiting the city in spring or fall instead. But what about winter? As New York Times reporter Rachel Donadio recently discovered, winter in Venice has its own special magic. In the article, she writes about seeing the city in winter for the first time: "The light, as always, was beyond compare and there was a watery chill in the air. I loved it immediately. " In winter, it's easy to…

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A Fast Passport for Ebenezer Scrooge

"If I could work my will, nephew, every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart." -- Ebenezer Scrooge It's officially the holiday season and while most of us are (fortunately) less bitter than Mr. Scrooge, wanting to get away from it all is actually a fairly normal reaction. I love Christmas in theory, but in practice the packed shopping malls…

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New Emergency Passport Office Opens in New Hampshire

Just in time for the busy holiday season, the Department of State announced last week that the New Hampshire passport agency office in Portsmouth is now open to the public. The office, located in the Pease Tradeport, has been open since 1992, and handles expedited passport request from all over the country. However, before November 23, 2010, it was not open to the public. Instead, New Hampshire residents had to travel to Boston or New York to get emergency passport…

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Missing Birth Certificate Found, Able to Apply for New Passport

A Oregon woman is finally able to apply for a new passport after the US Air Force located a copy of her birth certificate. According to the Mail Tribune, 21-year-old Vanessa Driskell has been looking for her birth certificate for the past 4 years, ever since she was 16 and wanted to apply for a driver's license. For most of us, a lost birth certificate is nothing more than an inconvenience. All it means is that you'll have to order…

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