passport update

[mamajoan]

It turns out that you can get a new passport if you have your old one, even if it's expired; and then you don't need your birth certificate. So I took my application in over my lunch break, and it's processing now. Yay.

I thought I was going to have to pay extra for expedited service, since regular service takes six weeks and it's only four till my Montreal trip (eek!), but it turns out you don't need a passport for Canada anyway, so I should be fine even if the passport doesn't arrive in time. And then I'll have it for Japan next winter. Whee. So, only $60 for my passport this time around. It's not highway robbery if it's the government robbing you, right? :P

Comments

[tiggrrl.livejournal.com]

Hey, did you have to turn in your old passport, or do you get to keep it? I need to renew mine this year, but I'm hoping I get to keep the old one 'cause it has all the cool stamps from where I've been.

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

They did take away my old passport, and it didn't occur to me to ask whether I can get it back. I don't need it anyway; the picture's terrible. And it only had one trip to France on it, so... *shrug*