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Do You Need a Passport to Go to the Caribbean?
By Passport Editorial

Passport requirements for travel to the Caribbean have changed! Click here to see the most up-to-date information. US travel regulations have been changing over the past few years, so you may need a passport to go to the Caribbean even if you were able to travel without one in the past. Here are the details you need to know to  plan your Caribbean adventure, including current requirements and upcoming changes. Right now, whether or not you need a passport to…

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Do You Need a Passport to Go to the Bahamas?
By Passport Editorial

UPDATE: Effective June 1st, 2009, the requirements to travel to the Bahamas have changed. Please see this entry for the most up-to-date information. Do you need a passport to go to the Bahamas? Changing travel regulations have left many people scratching their heads, wondering whether or not you need a passport. Actually, it depends. Right now, if you're traveling to or from the Bahamas by sea, all you need is government-issued photo identification and proof of citizenship, such as your…

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New Passport Laws Don’t Impede Border Crossing
By Passport Editorial

In 2009, new passport laws went into effect that changed the documents required for travel between the US, Mexico and Canada. Called the Western Travel Initiative (WHTI), the regulations required most US citizens to have either a passport or a passport card for land and sea travel to either country, with a passport book being required for air travel. Local businesses on both sides of the border have been ruing that day ever since, blaming the requirements for slowing down…

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New Passport Regulations Still Rankle Border Communities
By Passport Editorial

The Associated Press has an excellent article up that looks at how the new passport regulations associated with the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) have changed the way people live in border communities like St. Albans, Vermont. More than two years after the final phase of the WHTI went into effect, residents still miss the "good old days." It's easy to see why- in the article, Paul Martin, the fire chief in Richford, Vermont, reminisces about how easy it used…

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New Passport Cards Confuse Travelers
By Passport Editorial

In 2008, the US Department of State introduced a new passport option: the US passport card. The wallet-sized card was meant to make international travel to Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean more convenient and less expensive. Passport cards are the same size and shape as a driver's license, and they cost much less-only $45 for a card compared to $100 for a passport book. Passport cards are gradually becoming more and more popular, but as Las Vegas' Fox 5 News…

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Got a US Passport Card? Wave it in the Air!
By Passport Editorial

Have you gotten one of the new US passport cards yet? If you have one, and you are driving across an international bridge into Mexico or Canada, border officials want you to take that card out of your wallet and "wave it in the air like you just don't care" before you get to the inspection booth. No, this isn't some elaborate prank designed to make you look foolish for border officials' amusement.  According to the El Paso Times,  this…

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Mexico To Delay New Passport Requirements In Baja California
By Passport Editorial

The Mexican government just announced that they will hold off enforcing new regulations requiring US citizens to show their passports to get into the country, at least in some areas. According to the San Diego Union Tribune, the new rules will go into effect on March 1st for other parts of Mexico, but not for Baja California, because "Mexico lacks the infrastructure to enforce the regulations at busy ports such as San Ysidro and Otay Mesa." That means that US…

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