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Passports - How to Get a Passport and How to Rush Passports

Learn how to get a passport, including how to get your first US passport, how to rush passports and expedite a passport application, how to get passports without a birth certificate and more.

Definition of a Passport

Getting a passport after you apply can take anywhere from one day to ten weeks. Getting it in four weeks or less is usually considered a rush. You don't need to pay an expediting service to rush a passport in two weeks or less. There are two ways to rush passports - learn how to do it yourself either way for nothing!

Do You Need a Passport to Go to Puerto Rico?

Do you need a passport to go to Puerto Rico? No. You do not. Cool, huh? Yep, pretty Puerto Rico, with its tropical beaches and colonial history, is all yours if you're a US citizen. So how's that work?

WHTI Documents - What WHTI Documents Are

WHTI Documents - Passports and Other WHTI Documents - What is Okay for WHTI Passports

WHTI Documents - What WHTI Documents Are

WHTI Documents - Passports and Other WHTI Documents - What is Okay for WHTI Passports

How can I check my US passport application status?

Being able to check your US passport application status has never been so important -- without a passport, your vacation plans (almost) can't include leaving the country. Find out how to check your US passport application status...

How to Get Your First American Passport

Getting your first American passport - learn how to apply for your first American passport, what materials you'll need to complete the passport application process and how to get the passport.

Current Passport News, Passport Requirements Updates

Current passports rules for US citizens are a bit confusing right now -- get the passport news, understand what's happening with passports, who needs passports, whether you need passports to cross US borders and more. Read up for the definitive answers on passports and Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean, passports and air travel, passport...

PASS Passport Card Development Open for Comment

The advent of the new passport "substitute," the PASS card, has been announced at last -- a federal rule proposing the development of the inexpensive card-format passport for international travel by US citizens through land and sea entry points between the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Bermuda has been submitted for public comment. Read up.

Are Passports Needed for Mexico and Canada Travel?

Passports rules have been changing for Mexico, Canada, Bermuda and Caribbean travel. This is absolutely the current news regarding the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative and whether you need passports for travel to Canada and Mexico, whether traveling by land, sea or air.

Rush Passport - How to Rush a Passport

How to rush a passport: there are two ways to rush getting a passport if you need toleave the country within two weeks. Learn how to get a rush, or expedited, passport without using a passport service here.

Getting a Passport Without a Birth Certificate

You must have certain materials to get a passport, usually including a birth certificate. Find out here how to proceed with your passport application without a birth certificate.

Do You Need a Passport to Go to the USVI (U.S. Virgin Islands)?

Do You Need a Passport to Go to the USVI (U.S. Virgin Islands)?

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