Where to Get Passports

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Don't know where to get your passport?

Taking international trips can result in many mistakes. Well, actually, any trip can result in many mistakes. You can forget your wallet as I have done. You can forget your camera as I have done. I've heard of people purchasing tickets to Vancouver to watch the Winter Olympics and ending up with tickets to Portland, Oregon because that airport is right across the river from Vancouver, Washington.

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Where Can I Start This Passport Process?

There may not be much time.

Crossing the BorderForgetting things and missing details can happen even easier with last minute decisions to travel. If you are just sitting in your comfy chair watching the game one day and see a commercial for the Winter Olympics, you may wonder, "I wonder. How much would it cost to go there?" You pull out the computer and type in some search terms and find that the price is pretty reasonable. So, you order tickets for you and the wife.

Where Can I Get Passports

What can I do now?

Better Expedited Pricess than US Dept. of StateYou have tickets to the correct airport in Vancouver, B.C. You have a room set aside as well. But, you don't have a passport or a VISA. There is good news to start with in this situation: You don't need a VISA to go to Canada from the U.S.

You still need a passport. And you need it in a hurry.

Where do You Start to Get Your Passports?

An Easy to Follow List of Steps

In my opinion, the best place in this situation would be to start at Visa Headquarters because you are going to need the passports quickly. Quickly means quicker than a month or two.

And it's guaranteed delivery according to the time-line you choose.
  1. Log onto Visa Headquarters. They sell expedited passports.
  2. Click on U.S. Passport and select whether you want a new passport, or you want to replace an old or lost passport.
  3. Follow the steps starting at 1.a to download the order form for the passport processing you are going to need.
  4. On step 1.b., you will download the government form you will need to fill out (but not sign) in order to get your passport processed.
  5. For the next step you download the letter of authorization, print and sign it and a second copy.
  6. Gather all your documentation to prove who you are. Each needed item is explained on the page and it tells how to get them if you don't have them.
  7. Step #2 tells you how to get your documents authorized including how to find offices that you should locate and how to locate them and:

    • What the procedure entails.
    • What to take with you.
    • What you should expect to happen while there.
    • What to tell the agent so that they understand you are not going to use their services to deliver the sealed documents.
  8. The final step is to ship the passport application.
Important!

Start Now - Don't Delay!

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