Birth certificates don’t usually come with an expiration date, but if you were born in Puerto Rico, yours does: July 1st, 2010. After that date, all Puerto Rican birth certificates will be invalidated, per a law passed in Puerto Rico in January.
The law was passed to address the fact that criminals have made a practice of stealing Puerto Rican birth certificates and selling them on the black market.
Read ArticleExcept for the time he spent fighting in the Philippines, Tony Lopez, a World War II veteran, has never left the United States. According to the Denver Post, that was supposed to change on February 16th, when a combat reunion will be held in the Philippines to mark the 65th anniversary of the Battle for the Recapture of Corregidor, which Mr.
Read ArticlePeaches Geldof, the 20-year daughter of Sir Bob Geldof (the former lead singer of the Boomtown Rats and the actor who played “Pink” in Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall”) recently lost her passport in a London park.
Read ArticleOne name is enough for most of us mortals, but celebrities often have two-their actual legal name and the name they perform under. So, Tony Bennett is actually Anthony Benedetto, Marilyn Manson is actually Brian Warner and Joan Rivers is actually Joan Rosenberg, the last name of her late husband.
Read ArticleGetting a passport is exciting. This is undoubtedly a cliche, but a new passport really does open up a whole new world of travel opportunities. Where can your new passport take you 2010?
Read ArticleIf you’re living under an assumed name, here’s a tip for you: Don’t apply for a US passport. Arturo Puente, a chief petty officer in the US Navy, learned this particular lesson the hard way.
Read ArticleUsually, getting passport service is a fairly straightforward process. You fill out a passport application at a passport acceptance facility (often a post office, library, or County Clerk’s office) and provide them with the following documents to send to the Department of State along with your application:
However, for 86-year-old Katherine Young, getting passport service wasn’t that easy.
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