Posted on 07/12/2010 2:32:19 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Vacationing outside the U.S. is about to get more expensive -- and it has nothing to do with the cost of an airline ticket.
Beginning Tuesday, the price of acquiring a new passport book for adults will jump from $100 to $135, while the fee for renewing one will increase from $75 to $110.
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They’re all adding biometric data onto passports. The funny thing is that the US spends tons of money to prevent forgery type situations...but folks don’t use the US passport if they are going toward a forgery. They’ll pick a passport from Honduras, Pakistan, or Nigeria. So we are paying for something that doesn’t help much.
I guess we should be thankful that we can still get one and leave when we want, unlike ‘other’ socialist countries.
Why don’t they just build a fence, put in watchtowers and machine gun nests and have National Guard troops on the border.
In Obama’s world this will keep US citizens from escaping.
I use to work in DoD and the company I worked for, before you left the country, you had to get approval from the company security department. Like everything else, things would be put in place where your employer plays the surrogate gov’t and you would have to get approval from your employer to leave.
One manager I worked for in that company he wanted his people to leave detailed information where you will be at, contact information. You also had to get approval to leave town. I was not exactly cooperative with him on that. I told him I will be gone from day A to day B and he didn’t need to know anymore than that.
Also your employer can put indirect limitations on you leaving such as allowing you to “use a day here and a day there” on your vacation time where there isn’t enough time to do anything. Also you could be limited such as being subject to being called home while on vacation and even require you to take your work computer with you with the caveat that the computer cannot be taken out of the country due to export/import rules and regulations.
> I guess we should be thankful that we can still get one and leave when we want, unlike ‘other’ socialist countries.
I’m just surprised that the democrats haven’t latched
on to this as being discriminatory toward the poor and
wanting special free passports for dem voters.
“I guess we should be thankful that we can still get one and leave when we want, unlike ‘other’ socialist countries.”
For now....
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