At least one passport is, well, *more* affordable than six. Relatively.
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A passport *card* is only 30 USD (65 if you've never had a passport before, though that $35 would still be tacked on if you were getting a regular passport instead), but can only be used within North America (defined broadly enough to cover Caribbean islands) and can't be used for air travel even if you *are* going to somewhere in North America. This may or may not be a good tradeoff for your threat model.
(Personally, I considered it, then remembered the time that Mom had to fly out last-minute to visit her brother in the hospital and decided that probably not.)
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>>(another is i keep wanting to get another name change first but nothing has been stable enough for me to start that)
Apparently, if you change your name and apply for a new-name passport *while your old-name passport is less than a year old*, the new one is free; otherwise it's full price. Weird cliff there, but good to know.
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Ah, and here we have the *actual* fun fact for today.
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>>the price is one of the reasons i haven't yet
At least one passport is, well, *more* affordable than six. Relatively.
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A passport *card* is only 30 USD (65 if you've never had a passport before, though that $35 would still be tacked on if you were getting a regular passport instead), but can only be used within North America (defined broadly enough to cover Caribbean islands) and can't be used for air travel even if you *are* going to somewhere in North America. This may or may not be a good tradeoff for your threat model.
(Personally, I considered it, then remembered the time that Mom had to fly out last-minute to visit her brother in the hospital and decided that probably not.)
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>>(another is i keep wanting to get another name change first but nothing has been stable enough for me to start that)
Apparently, if you change your name and apply for a new-name passport *while your old-name passport is less than a year old*, the new one is free; otherwise it's full price. Weird cliff there, but good to know.