Olde Hornet
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http://roadwarriorvoices.com/2015/1...ountry-check-these-6-things-on-your-passport/
When an American woman was denied boarding on her honeymoon last week because of a bent passport, she learned the hard way that if you want to get on an international flight, it’s not enough just to make sure you have your passport in hand. There also are some fussy rules and country-specific preferences like the number of blank pages in your passport, for example. In extreme cases, if you don’t play by seemingly arbitrary rules, you could get shipped back to the U.S. on a technicality — which is especially annoying since you can get on a domestic flightwithout so much as a government-issued ID.
But international border officials don’t play around. When it comes down to it, the fate of your travel is in the hands of whoever checks your passport. Here are six things you need to check on your passport in order to ensure you’ll coast through immigration without an issue.
When an American woman was denied boarding on her honeymoon last week because of a bent passport, she learned the hard way that if you want to get on an international flight, it’s not enough just to make sure you have your passport in hand. There also are some fussy rules and country-specific preferences like the number of blank pages in your passport, for example. In extreme cases, if you don’t play by seemingly arbitrary rules, you could get shipped back to the U.S. on a technicality — which is especially annoying since you can get on a domestic flightwithout so much as a government-issued ID.
But international border officials don’t play around. When it comes down to it, the fate of your travel is in the hands of whoever checks your passport. Here are six things you need to check on your passport in order to ensure you’ll coast through immigration without an issue.