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brin_bellway) wrote2024-03-01 01:08 pm
brin_bellway) wrote2024-03-01 01:08 pm
""Fun"" fact of the day (March 1, 2024)
[cw: government bullshit]
I ran the numbers on this today, and did you know that getting passports renewed for a group of three dual citizens costs over a thousand fucking dollars?
(CAD$480 for three Canadian ones and USD$390 (CAD$528) for three American ones)
(and the border-control people really strongly prefer that you have both, though in a pinch they will generally, grudgingly, eventually let you get away with having just one)
Our U.S. passports are already expired, and the Canadian ones expire in a few months.
I don't have *plans* to travel outside Canada, but like, you don't always know in advance, you know? And my parents may or may not need to show up to an in-person thing in Massachusetts in early 2025: it's not yet clear.
I ran the numbers on this today, and did you know that getting passports renewed for a group of three dual citizens costs over a thousand fucking dollars?
(CAD$480 for three Canadian ones and USD$390 (CAD$528) for three American ones)
(and the border-control people really strongly prefer that you have both, though in a pinch they will generally, grudgingly, eventually let you get away with having just one)
Our U.S. passports are already expired, and the Canadian ones expire in a few months.
I don't have *plans* to travel outside Canada, but like, you don't always know in advance, you know? And my parents may or may not need to show up to an in-person thing in Massachusetts in early 2025: it's not yet clear.