Passports

"Morgans" wrote in message
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"Joe Feise" wrote

You don't own a passport. It is the property of the issuing country.

My sister had a rather unusual passport. She got hers lifted while
visiting Prague, so she had to go to the American Embassy, and get a new
one issued,

so what so unusual about that. Tourists are losing passports all the time
abroad and the Consular Services have to issue replacement passports
frequently.

"Chris" wrote

so what so unusual about that. Tourists are losing passports all the time
abroad and the Consular Services have to issue replacement passports
frequently.

It did not look like the passports that are issued in the US, and it said on
it where it was issued.
--
Jim in NC

Jim
I've had to get on the spot passports a couple of times out of country.
Once for political reasons and ended up with two valid passports. At
the time I had visas for South Africa and was going to work on a job in
Egypt. The gyppos would not issue me a visa with the So Africa stamps
in the passport. I had to keep that one for re-entry to S.A. as the
visas were a bitch to get on short notice and you had to jump through a
lot of hoops.
Having a couple passports raised eyebrows more than a few times and
caused me some police delays at least twice. Sure glad they went to a
10 year validation period. I'll probably expire before the next one
expires ggg
I checked and none of them were any different except place of issue and
as I recall neither of them took more than an hour at the embassy in
both London and Paris.
Cheers
Rocky

In article .com,
Ol Shy & Bashful wrote:
Curious to see how many of the people here have passports and who has
visited outside of their home country as a civilian.
Pilots being the more adventurous types, I'm curious.
As noted before, I've traveled extensively outside the USA and have had
probably 6 or more passports that ran out of time but I have a current
one good for a few more years.
Anyone???

I just came back from the US and had to list all countries visited in the
last 10 years for the visa application (special extra form for young males,)
so I dug the expired passports and the current one.

I've been to:

Cuba, Costa Rica, Republica Dominicana, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina,
Spain, Germany, and the US.

Country most visited: US, 10 times or so. 4 times to Argentina (next door),
twice to mexico and Brazil. The rest only once.

43.000 LanPass kilometers just this year...




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"Ol Shy & Bashful" wrote

I've had to get on the spot passports a couple of times out of country.

This was less than a year after the iron curtain over Prague fell down. The
embassy was either really busy, or really F'ed up. It took her almost a
full day to get it replaced, but she had lost all of her ID, ect, also.
--
Jim in NC

On 22 May 2006 21:30:40 -0700, "cjcampbell"
wrote:


Ol Shy & Bashful wrote:
Curious to see how many of the people here have passports and who has
visited outside of their home country as a civilian.

Well, I am a missionary in the Philippines now and will not return
until the end of November. Does that count? (I wonder how rusty I am
getting?)

How are you making out? I have some friends who went to the South
Seas on a missionary catamaran outfitted as a dental clinic. At one
port, they treated a man who'd had an abcessed tooth for decades. They
had it out and packed with antibiotics and in two days, the man, who'd
been one mean ******* up until then, turned out to be a perfectly
reasonable human being after all.

It isn't easy to practice virtue when you're in continuous pain. Thre
were lessons there for everyone: guy with the toothache, his
neighbors, missionaries, and assorted skeptics.

Don

Don Tuite wrote:
On 22 May 2006 21:30:40 -0700, "cjcampbell"
wrote:


Ol Shy & Bashful wrote:
Curious to see how many of the people here have passports and who has
visited outside of their home country as a civilian.

Well, I am a missionary in the Philippines now and will not return
until the end of November. Does that count? (I wonder how rusty I am
getting?)

How are you making out? I have some friends who went to the South
Seas on a missionary catamaran outfitted as a dental clinic. At one
port, they treated a man who'd had an abcessed tooth for decades. They
had it out and packed with antibiotics and in two days, the man, who'd
been one mean ******* up until then, turned out to be a perfectly
reasonable human being after all.

It isn't easy to practice virtue when you're in continuous pain. Thre
were lessons there for everyone: guy with the toothache, his
neighbors, missionaries, and assorted skeptics.

We are doing fine. Officially, we are the office couple and we are in
charge of the, um, office. Seriously. I handle finances, vehicles, and
housing for the missionaries and Jane takes care of record keeping and
other clerical duties. But they do let us out once in awhile. :-)

We rack up a lot of kilometers, training local church leaders all over
the northern end of Luzon, inspecting missionary apartments, taking
care of various other missionary needs, occasionally being the invited
dignitaries at some groundbreaking ceremony for a new chapel, etc.

Now, if only all of us could cure our ill temper merely by pulling a
tooth....

("Philippines" -- Southeast Asian island country whose name roughly
translates to "land covered with very small ants.")

Don Tuite wrote:
On 22 May 2006 21:30:40 -0700, "cjcampbell"
wrote:


Ol Shy & Bashful wrote:
Curious to see how many of the people here have passports and who has
visited outside of their home country as a civilian.

Well, I am a missionary in the Philippines now and will not return
until the end of November. Does that count? (I wonder how rusty I am
getting?)

How are you making out? I have some friends who went to the South
Seas on a missionary catamaran outfitted as a dental clinic. At one
port, they treated a man who'd had an abcessed tooth for decades. They
had it out and packed with antibiotics and in two days, the man, who'd
been one mean ******* up until then, turned out to be a perfectly
reasonable human being after all.

It isn't easy to practice virtue when you're in continuous pain. Thre
were lessons there for everyone: guy with the toothache, his
neighbors, missionaries, and assorted skeptics.

We are doing fine. Officially, we are the office couple and we are in
charge of the, um, office. Seriously. I handle finances, vehicles, and
housing for the missionaries and Jane takes care of record keeping and
other clerical duties. But they do let us out once in awhile. :-)

We rack up a lot of kilometers, training local church leaders all over
the northern end of Luzon, inspecting missionary apartments, taking
care of various other missionary needs, occasionally being the invited
dignitaries at some groundbreaking ceremony for a new chapel, etc.

Now, if only all of us could cure our ill temper merely by pulling a
tooth....

("Philippines" -- Southeast Asian island country whose name roughly
translates to "land covered with very small ants.")

That changes soon. Or rather, the US soon requires that US citizens returning
from Mexico or Canada need a passport to enter the US.

Possibly, or possibly not. We'll see.

-Robert

My list includes:

Canada, Mexico, The Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Lesser Antilles, Grand
Cayman, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Japan, The Netherlands, Belgium,
Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, and France.

I recently obtained a visa for India as I may need to travel there on
business.

Dean