{"id":569,"date":"2009-05-25T12:39:27","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T17:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/?p=569"},"modified":"2019-08-22T20:17:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T20:17:19","slug":"tsa-make-sure-the-name-on-your-tickets-matches-your-us-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/tsa-make-sure-the-name-on-your-tickets-matches-your-us-passport\/","title":{"rendered":"TSA: Make Sure The Name on Your Tickets Matches Your US Passport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re planning on traveling in the near future, it would be a good idea to check and make sure that all of your travel documents, including your US passport,\u00a0 are up-to-date. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/denver\/stories\/2009\/05\/18\/daily81.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the Chicago Tribune<\/a>, TSA has started to crack down on people whose travel documents don&#8217;t match their tickets.<\/p>\n<p>If you are traveling on a US passport, you definitely need to make sure that the name on your passport is the name on your ticket. Period. It doesn&#8217;t matter how many supporting documents you bring with you-the names must match\u00a0 exactly-including the middle name or middle initial.\u00a0 According to the story in the Tribune, the requirement that your middle name\/middle initial match is effective now for domestic flights and will be effective in December for international flights.<\/p>\n<p>If your name has changed since you were last issued a US passport, you should get it changed as soon as possible. For details on how to accomplish this task, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/name-change\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Changing Your Name on Your US Passport Renewal. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember to apply to have your name changed on your US passport at least 6 weeks in advance if you use regular processing. The government&#8217;s expedited processing service takes at least 3 weeks. If you need the name on your passport changed sooner than that, a private passport expediting company is your best bet. An expediting company will hand-deliver your passport name change application to the US Department of State, resulting in processing times as short as 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t wait until the last minute-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">change your name on your US passport today! <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re planning on traveling in the near future, it would be a good idea to check and make sure that all of your travel documents, including your US passport,  are up-to-date. TSA has started to crack down on people whose travel documents don&#8217;t match their tickets.<br \/>\nUs passport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[144,64],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-regulations","tag-passport-name-change","tag-us-passport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8800,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/8800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}