Spring and summer holidays are underway for many, but passengers are being encouraged to check their passports before tickets and accommodation bookings.
Spring and summer holidays are underway for many, but passengers are being encouraged to check their passports before tickets and accommodation bookings.
CBS News Travel Editor Peter Greenburg said that if your passport is nearing the expiry, prefer to get new before the booking.
Greenberg said, “One, five -letter word that you apply for your passport or renew your passport has to come out of your words,” later “.
If the passport expires within six months of your journey, Greenberg has requested you to get a new, as some countries will not accept a passport with a little time left. Another thing that will remove American travelers from the guards is that some countries reject the passport with less than two empty pages.
“Carefully review your passport,” Greenberg said. “The first is better.”
Greenberg said that while a new online online system is working well, you should still expect six to eight weeks to get your new passport, whether you have renewed it or your first job.
According to the Greenburg, an unknown, federal manpower is lacking and if it eventually implements the staff that acts on the passport.
“Hopefully, there will be no rid or staff. “We have not heard about anyone yet, but it is not surprising what is happening in other agencies if they were there,” Greenberg said.
He urged the passengers to remember the slowdown during pandemic diseases due to staff problems in the house’s residence orders.
Trip to Europe
In the past, a plane ticket was sufficient for many US passengers to enter the UK, but now, international visitors will have to sign up to allow electronic travel permission, which is also known. An ETA or electronic visa.
Greenburg said, “You need it before buying your ticket, and you can’t go on the plane without it, so ask for it within 72 hours when you want to buy your ticket.”
“When everything is said and done, you will cost about $ 13,” he said. Passengers do not need electronic visas for aircraft changing aircraft while traveling to another location outside the UK.
“First, once again, better. Especially if you are going this summer, because you don’t want you to get a big line and are unable to board the plane because you waited for a long time.
It was expected that a similar process would begin for EU countries this year, but it was recently announced. European Travel Information and Authorization System The last quarter of 2026 has been delayed.
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