{"id":1104,"date":"2011-09-12T08:43:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T14:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2011-09-12T08:43:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T14:43:03","slug":"how-to-get-a-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"How to Get a Passport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I know&#8230; for most of you, this is hardly interesting or useful, but wouldn&#8217;t you agree\u00a0we need to help out the slim majority of Americans that don&#8217;t have one?\u00a0 Wait, let me fact-check that&#8230; no, well this is interesting&#8230; it&#8217;s not\u00a0a slim minority- it&#8217;s not even a minority.\u00a0<strong>\u00a0Roughly 63% of Americans don&#8217;t have passports.\u00a0 <\/strong>Excuse me while I shed a tear.<\/p>\n<p>Ladies and gentleman, this is a travesty!\u00a0 Should any of you happen upon our blog, let me be the first to implore you &#8211; Please take the opportunity to leave the country.\u00a0 If you are patriotic, you&#8217;ll become even more so.\u00a0 We live in a great place, but the world is full of amazing people, cultures, adventures, and experiences.<\/p>\n<p>In times past, world travel was reserved only for the affluent.\u00a0 Airline travel was cost-prohibitive, but times have changed.\u00a0 If you spend more than $3000\u00a0a month, there are places you could\u00a0go in the world, which would actually save you money &#8211; net of your airline\u00a0ticket\u00a0cost!\u00a0 Now, compound that with WorldWanderlusting&#8217;s credit card exploitation and other travel tricks, and traveling the world may just be an expense-saving opportunity for you.<\/p>\n<p>To begin, you&#8217;ll need to get a passport.\u00a0 First time passport applicants must appear in person at a Passport acceptance facility, which you can search for <a href=\"http:\/\/iafdb.travel.state.gov\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But first, you&#8217;ll need get together the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A filled-out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.state.gov\/passport\/forms\/ds11\/ds11_842.html\">form DS-11<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A Certified Birth Certificate<\/li>\n<li>Present identification (driver&#8217;s license)<\/li>\n<li>A 2&#8243;x2&#8243; color photo of yourself that meets <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.state.gov\/passport\/pptphotoreq\/pptphotoreq_5333.html\">these requirements<\/a>. (It&#8217;s easiest to get this taken at Walgreens).<\/li>\n<li>$110 +$25 (for adults)<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.state.gov\/passport\/fees\/fees_837.html\"> See more about the fees.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once you submit this at a <a href=\"http:\/\/iafdb.travel.state.gov\/\">passport acceptance facility <\/a>or US Passport Agency, as long as everything is in order, you can expect your passport in 4-6 weeks.\u00a0 Chances are that it may come sooner, but don&#8217;t gamble on it. If you need an expedited passport, you can expedite shipping for another $60, but I wouldn&#8217;t recommend it.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in a hurry and you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelvisapro.com\/?main,do.affiliate,id.1872\">need a passport now<\/a>, I&#8217;d urge you to contact Travel Visa Pro.\u00a0 They can also help if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelvisapro.com\/?main,do.affiliate,id.1872\">you need a Visa <\/a>to visit any particular country for an extended period of time.<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n var file = \"http:\/\/www.travelvisapro.com\/images\/468x60_usa8h_3.swf?clickTag=http:\/\/www.travelvisapro.com\/?passport,do.affiliate,id.1872\"; var width = \"468\"; var height = \"60\"; var wmode = \"window\";\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travelvisapro.com\/js\/flash.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I know&#8230; for most of you, this is hardly interesting or useful, but wouldn&#8217;t you agree\u00a0we need to help out the slim majority of Americans that don&#8217;t have one?\u00a0 Wait, let me fact-check that&#8230; no, well this is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=1104\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[290,292,293,291],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DhXV-hO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}