Think your passport is valid and ready to go for your next trip overseas? You may be wrong. Every day thousands of travelers get stuck at the airport due to issues with their passport. We will explain the four most common passport validity issues that might prevent you from making your next trip. 1. Your Passport Expires Too Soon If your passport expires in the next six months, you may need to renew it before you can travel. Some countries…
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Before you leave the country, it pays to check the back of your passport and make sure you have a few blank pages left. Those pages can fill up faster than you realize! A full passport might seem like an enviable problem to have, but what happens if you try to travel without any blank pages? It's tempting to think that you could make it work as long as the passport itself is still valid, but in most cases, you…
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Renewing your passport is expensive, but now that there's a hefty new $82 fee for adding pages, it's almost a better deal to just go ahead and apply for a US passport renewal. Plus, there are limits to how many pages you can get added to your passport before you have to get a new one. If you'd prefer to put off the day of reckoning for as long as possible, here's a tip courtesy of Gadling's Grant Martin: "One…
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When you run out of pages in your passport, you have to get more pages added or you won't be allowed to travel. Usually, adding pages is no big deal-in fact, until just this summer, the government didn't even charge for it. However, tech entrepreneur Sanjeev Midha had a passport so large, he had to get an early US passport renewal instead. According to AOL.com, Midha's passport had enough pages that it could almost qualify as a small novel: a…
