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jimgreener

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Call me paranoid but lately I am getting a little concerned... I received my US passport in Jan and since then I haven't traveled and therefore never used the passport...I have to travel in Apr....Just to be 100% sure I want to make sure my passport has no mistakes...especially the electronic chip in it...how can I verify my passport...Imagine if you travel outside US and while coming back at POE they find some error on Passport....you are basically screwed.....Anyone else having same worries or paranoia
 
A bad electronic passport chip isn't something that would cause CBP to prevent you from returning to US.
What other type of mistakes are you referring to?
 
that's call OCD. See the doctor.

Most people don't even use their passport within 3 years. 3 months is nothing. I think over 30% of US born Americans don't even have passport

Just joking...



If you're that worried. bring copies of your old green card and naturalization paper as a backup just in case.
 
Whaledad said:
It's the other way around:
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2007-04-02-passport-record_N.htm
27% of Americans HAVE a passport as of June 2008.
(In other words: 72% don't have one.)

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Isn't it true that in order to get your first American passport you need to show you are planning to leave the country be it for vacation or whatever.

Could this be the reason why so few Americans don't have a passport?

I remember reading on the passport applicaiton form that they ask for planned travel dates and evidence of same. So if you are not planning to travel they will not issue you a passport until such time as you actually need one. Or am I completely incorrect on this point.
 
barr1025 said:
Isn't it true that in order to get your first American passport you need to show you are planning to leave the country be it for vacation or whatever.

Could this be the reason why so few Americans don't have a passport?

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There is no such condition. Planned trip is onky used to get some express one-day passport processing. Otherwise youc an apply for a passport
without any travel plan.
 
barr1025 said:
I remember reading on the passport applicaiton form that they ask for planned travel dates and evidence of same. So if you are not planning to travel they will not issue you a passport until such time as you actually need one. Or am I completely incorrect on this point.
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Completely incorrect. My daughter got a passport with no travel plans at all - took 3 weeks using standard processing.
 
barr1025 said:
Isn't it true that in order to get your first American passport you need to show you are planning to leave the country be it for vacation or whatever.
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They only ask for upcoming vacation plans if you need your passport urgently processed the same day.
 
jimgreener said:
Call me paranoid but lately I am getting a little concerned... I received my US passport in Jan and since then I haven't traveled and therefore never used the passport...I have to travel in Apr....Just to be 100% sure I want to make sure my passport has no mistakes...especially the electronic chip in it...how can I verify my passport...Imagine if you travel outside US and while coming back at POE they find some error on Passport....you are basically screwed.....Anyone else having same worries or paranoia
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As a US Citizen you have the right to enter the country. So if your passport has an error, or even if it is lost or stolen, it may cause some delays, but your right to enter the country cannot be taken away.
 
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