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Old 12-18-2024, 09:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Rainger99 View Post
It his annoying that your passport is only good for 9.5 years - see below. It is even more annoying that when you renew your passport, they don’t renew it from the date that your current passport expires. Instead, it is only good for 10 years from the date that the new passport is issued. So it is really good for about 9 to 9.25 years.

And during this current 10 year period, there was about 1.5 years that you couldn’t travel because of covid. I always thought the government should have issued an order extending everyone’s passport for the period that we couldn’t travel.

Some countries require that your passport have at least six months of validity beyond the dates of your trip. Some airlines will not allow you to board if this requirement is not met.
Getting a credit for non usage of a passport during COVID is like trying to get a credit for non usage of golf courses for people in the Villages with the enhanced membership when courses were closed after the hurricanes