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US Passport Security Features: 4 Facts You Didn’t Know

US Passport Security Features: 4 Facts You Didn’t Know

The first US passports were simple pieces of paper. Times have changed, and today’s passports rely on cutting-edge technology to protect against forgery.  While most of that technology is top-secret, here are four elements that distinguish a real passport from a fake.

Ink: More than Meets the Eye

Put your passport under a black light and prepare to be amazed, as special fluorescent ink creates glowing patterns across the pages.

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Travel Insurance: Yes or No?

People have a lot of questions about travel insurance. What is it? What does it cover? Is it worth the price? Where do I get it? So here are some simple answers to help you make a more informed decision.

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Serendipity and a Lost Passport

Would you buy someone else’s long-expired passport? What if the passport showed that, many years ago, the person lived in the same place where you live now?

For Nuno Fonseca, a Portuguese medical student studying in Paris, the pull of the mystery represented by a 60-year-old passport he found at a flea market was too strong to resist.

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Man Replaces Lost Passport with iPad (Maybe)

It was the travel story of the week:  a 33-year-old Canadian man named  Martin Reisch left on a road trip for the US without his passport, but managed to convince Customs to let him across the border by showing them a scanned copy of the document on his iPad.

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