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Salvadoran passports to be changed

September 2nd, 2007 at 12:52 am

apparently the new ones have more security features...ours (Ale's and mine) are about to expire anyway (Dec 2007)....the part that I DONīT like?

The director of immigration saying:
"we still donīt know if the new ones will be more expensive, we havenīt decided, but, take into account, at $9.14, we currently have one of the cheapest passport issuance fee IN THE WORLD!"...

anyone smell a BIG increase coming for passport issuance??

I do hope Iīm mistaken!!...in the meantime, they are not renewing or issuing any new passports....unless you can prove that you NEED to travel NOW (as in, you have a medical condition which requires treatment abroad...that sort of thing!)...

Oh, well, Iīll keep my eyes open!!

Posted in Money, Setbacks, Tracking expenses | 2 Comments »

2 Responses to “Salvadoran passports to be changed”

  1. Joan.of.the.Arch Says:
    September 2nd, 2007 at 04:33 pm 1188750790
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    Interesting...Our USA passports are in a backlog since we now must have passports to re-enter from our neighboring countries & some Caribbean countries which do not even require a passport for entry. This means a lot of people who cross the border daily have to get passports. Our fee is US$97 and the Department of State says expect to wait up to 3 months to recieve it. Even an expedited passport will now take 3 weeks! (Costs more, too.) So if one has an emergency and has to leave the country --like to go to one's mother's funeral-- I don't know what can be done. Our passports, too, are being changed to carry an embedded computer chip. Initially they were going to be "radio frequency i.d." chips which could be scanned from meters away. That became controversial though, as some people feared that their idenetity could be detected by strangers at a distance who had the necessary scanners. I'm not sure if that RFID chip plan was continued. But there were enteprising people who becan to sell passport covers that would interfere with the radio signal so that the passport would only be scannable when it was pulled out of the cover, presumably, only during official encounters....Others said just wrap your passport in aluminum foil to prevent the radio signal from travelling! Smile

  2. Miclason Says:
    September 3rd, 2007 at 04:18 pm 1188836288
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    If you are 18 and older, you can travel in the CA-4 (El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua) using just your official national id (our countries require that you get an official id when you turn 18. This is THE legal id, and, you need it for everything, from applying to a job to cashing a check!)....the law changed recently and now children exiting the country need a passport. They did this because before all you needed to get a child out of the country was a birth certificate and a power of attorney from the parents, so it was easy to smuggle kids out of the country!(all you needed was a legal birth certificate and a crooked enough lawyer to draw up a power of attorney and some phony signatures!!) >Frown

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