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Missing Birth Certificate Found, Able to Apply for New Passport
By Passport Editorial

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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How a New Passport Can Help Your Career
By Passport Editorial

Does a new passport provide more of a career advantage for recent graduates than an MBA from a top school? Perhaps, according to a New York Times interview with Quintin E. Primo III, the CEO of Capri Capital Partners. The interview covered a wide range of topics, but several of the questions dealt with the subject of what high school graduates would need to do to get a job at Capri. The first criteria Mr. Primo mentioned was knowing someone…

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Texas Woman Finally Receives New Passport
By Passport Editorial

As national security measures become ever more strict, even Americans who have lived here all of their lives sometimes have a hard time getting a new passport.  This is especially true of older Americans, born in a time when record-keeping was not as strict. For example, June Cloud was born 61 years ago at home in Kilgore, Texas, and the doctor who delivered her did not submit the necessary paperwork for her to be issued a birth certificate. According to…

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New Passports For Citizens Born to Midwives Near the Border
By Passport Editorial

*The passport fees have recently changed. As of April 2nd, 2018, the passport acceptance fee has gone up from $25 to $35.   US citizens born to midwives near the US-Mexican border will get a chance to get new passports next month by applying at special mobile units set up by the Department of State.  The mobile units are being set up as part of the settlement for a class-action lawsuit filed by the ACLU on behalf of American citizens…

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Wife Gets New Passport Back With Husband’s Passport Photo
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A UK woman got a bit of a surprise when she opened the envelope containing her new passport. According to the Manchester Evening News, the document she received had her name...but her husband's face! Terence and Marilyn Walker apparently sent off their passport renewal applications at the same time. His was processed correctly, but hers came back with the wrong passport photo.  Instead of her passport photo, the passport agency had placed a photo of her husband. Mrs. Walker told…

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Get Your Passport Application In To Be a “Honeymoon Tester”
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What, exactly, is a "'honeymoon tester?" Basically, it's a dream job for any couple that likes to travel.  Here's the job description, from Runawaybrideandgroom.com: "Would you be able to sip champagne, while lying in a hammock slung between two palm trees on a white, sandy beach, with your romantically linked partner beside you, without spilling your drink? Well then, you may just have what it takes for the Ultimate Job in Ireland (and probably the world!)." Sounds like heaven, right?…

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New Passport: Puerto Ricans Will Need New Birth Certificates
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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.  In Puerto Rico, it used to be quite common to submit…

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