It's a good idea to keep a valid passport around no matter if you live in North America or Europe. Doesn't hurt to be prepared.
this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2025
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Good luck getting one right now, they fired everyone who's not a cop
Edit: I've been corrected, passports are going it seems. I wonder how visas are...
Even when they run at full capacity it takes about 30 to 90 days for the paperwork to process.
I applied for a passport on March 1st and it is showing up on the 25th and I know someone else who applied on the same day and got theirs a week or so earlier. It isn't taking long right now
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Better hurry and get it before they make it practically or literally impossible for everyone except the most privileged..
or they force you to serve in the military first to earn a passport. kind of like earning your citizenship in starship troopers.
too old to serve?.....didnt ask....
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Trump's Golden Passport, only five millions, for a limited time only! Lets you go visa free to beautiful Puerto Rico, Guam, and soon to Canada and Greenland. Other destinations pending.
Order yours now!
Conditions may apply.
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It's only a matter of time until they stop letting us out
Best to work on your cardio now as well, if you've gotta trek to a destination it's best to have some endurance.
We've got big long borders and a lot of it is incredibly undeveloped.
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By the time you realize you need to have a passport, you should have already gotten one. I got my first passport in 2000. It took like a week. I lost it and had to get a new one in 2007. I got grilled by Homeland Security in a windowless office about whether or not I was familiar with the terrorist cells in the country I was vacationing in because it was a country with a significant Muslim population. I can’t imagine what it’s like now.
Sign up for some exchange program in a neutral country, buy a round-trip ticket, and just never come back.
I renewed a year or two ago and it was no big deal (US passport but longtime Japan resident) and took like 3 weeks. I think part of it was by mail, even, though I can't recall for sure (I think I submitted in person and received by mail? Now that I live hours away from Tokyo, I certainly hope that's an option in 8ish years).
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Incredible to think that something like 65% of Americans have NEVER left the country, not even to Canada or Mexico. More impressive, even, is that like 40% have left their home STATE.
I mean it's a very large country with many interesting places, diverse landscapes etc etc, I don't find it particularly strange to never have left. I wonder how many Europeans have never left Europe, though I guess the cultural differences between countries there is larger than between states in the US.
I mean, it’s a big country. I assume “Europeans who never left Europe” would be a similar percentage. I’m saying this as someone living in the EU.
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I just picked up my first passport in my entire life. I’m trying to get away from this hell hole.
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I renewed my US passport about 6 months ago. I was eligible to renew online. Cost around $130 if I remember correctly. The online process was actually really easy and it came in the mail only a few weeks later (2-3 weeks). Highly recommend renewing online if you meet the eligibility requirements.
This ☝️. You don't even have to go to the store to get a passport picture taken if it's a renewal, take a pic of yourself using their guidelines. Tripod or have someone take it for you. Send that in. 2-3 weeks it's at your door.
it is still very easy to get a passport. I helped a friend get theirs last month, and more over the years.
don't listen to any of the ignorant comments saying it's difficult to get one; they don't know what they're talking about.
you can do it online or in person at a US Post office.
fill out the application form, takes maybe 20 minutes tops, pay the fee (165$), they take your picture, you will get your passport in the mail in a couple of weeks, it lasts for 10 years, renewable on the go from embassies and consulates.
If you have any questions about passports or traveling, fire away.
A passport costs 165 dollaroos? Damn. And I thought the 70 Euro we have to pay was excessive.
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Or maybe a psspsspssport?
What good would it do? Unless you’re planning to overstay a tourist passport entry and become an illegal in that country?
A passport is one of the most important documents you can have. It has many uses, and is relatively easy to get… at least in my country where we have government efficiency with funding— so we get it in two weeks else it’s free.
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Do you prioritize not having illegal status in another country over your own ability to stay alive and stay safe?
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idk, maybe hold onto it and hopefully not use it (?)
wow, the comments went really somewhere.
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Americans are starting to self deport to discover new worlds.
I got mine very recently and I'm so happy about it. I'm trying to get my family members to get it as well but they refuse to, it's upsetting.
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