[93051] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: passports for NANOG-39, Toronto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Howard C. Berkowitz)
Thu Oct 26 01:12:03 2006
From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@netcases.net>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:07:43 -0500
In-Reply-To: <E1Gcvse-0009oN-Kj@valhalla.seastrom.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
particularly if you are in the DC area, call your congressman's district
(usually) office and ask them to send the Passport Office a =
"congressional
courtesy" request. In practice, this means that you don't stand in line, =
but
go upstairs to the diplomatic processing area, and, with proper =
documents
and photos, you'll probably have the passport in under an hour.=20
I believe there is also a priority program for cities that have Passport
Office branches. Just one of the perks of incumbents.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf =
Of
> Robert E. Seastrom
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:26 PM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: passports for NANOG-39, Toronto
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> You may have heard that the US and Canada are going to start requiring
> passports for air travel between them beginning "soon". That date is
> currently set as 8 Jan 2007, which is before February NANOG. MERIT
> has noted this on the web site, but a cursory check of my list
> archives didn't turn up mention of it (sorry if I overlooked it; the
> last couple of weeks have been hectic), so I figured I'd include the
> pointer:
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> http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0702/passport.html
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> as well as a link to the State Department:
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> http://travel.state.gov/passport/passport_1738.html
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> Normal passport processing is "within six weeks", but that probably
> doesn't take the holiday season into account. If you don't have a
> passport already and plan to travel from the US to NANOG 39 in
> Toronto, getting on that project sometime in the next month or so
> would allow plenty of spare time. No reason to pay expedite fees if
> you don't have to.
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> ---Rob
