[Travelandtourism] Need a passport? It'll cost you more

[Steven Johnson]

Thanks Cheryl...that's exactly what I had requested.  Hopefully it won't
take too long.  The price I paid was $136.  

Steve
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[mailto:travelandtourism-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Cheryl
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 6:29 PM
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Subject: Re: [Travelandtourism] Need a passport? It'll cost you more

If you are just going to Canada there is a card traveling outside the
country you need the book 

Steven Johnson <blinddog3 at charter.net> wrote:

>Reese,
>
>I just applied fort my passport, and with this post, bring a question 
>that I hope you and the rest can help with.  I was told that there are 
>2 kinds of passports.  What are the 2 types, and what are the the
advantages to each?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Steve
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:travelandtourism-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Reese
>Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 10:19 AM
>To: NFB Travel and Tourism Division List
>Subject: [Travelandtourism] Need a passport? It'll cost you more
>
>Need a U.S. passport? The application fee is increasing from $55 to $70.
>Planning an international trip? For Americans who still need to obtain 
>a passport, or renew an existing one, the price is going up.
>
>The application fee for a passport has jumped 27 percent to $70, from 
>$55, with the passport security surcharge doubling to $40 from $20. 
>(And don't forget the $25 "execution fee" on top of those costs.)
>
>And for those frequent travelers to parts abroad, the department now 
>charges
>$82 - up from zero - to add new pages to a U.S. passport. It says the 
>fee is needed to offset the cost of the pages, the time spent affixing 
>the pages into the passport book, endorsing the passport and performing 
>a quality-control check.
>
>Those are just a few of a long list of fee increases for the 
>department's consular services that were published Thursday in the 
>Federal Register. The U.S. State Department said it raised the fees after
finding that the "U.S.
>Government was not fully covering its costs for providing these 
>consular services."
>
>To see the list of current fees or to apply for a U.S. passport, visit 
>the State Department's Passport site.
>
>Of course, you can always avoid all that paperwork and instead visit 
>one of the 50 states in the good ol' US of A.
>
>Reese
>
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