by Charlie Leocha | Sep 8, 2023
Passport renewal appears to be a crapshoot. Maybe nine weeks. Maybe nine days. Only two weeks ago, I sent my passport in for renewal. You can imagine my concern after the litany of newspapers and magazine articles about problems with the process. I felt naked without...
by Charlie Leocha | Aug 2, 2010
While we passengers are all but dropping our drawers to get on a airplane in the name of security, the passport office is issuing passports to bogus citizens with obvious ID problems. It was all part of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) sting. The U.S. has an...
by Ned S. Levi | Apr 26, 2010
Over at the ConsumerTraveler.com Forums, one of our members had a friend who just returned from a trip to Maui, Hawaii. During her trip she lost her driver’s license. TSA still let her board her flight home. If you’re a US citizen or resident, traveling in the U.S.,...
by Charlie Leocha | Jan 20, 2010
I just read a disheartening story about the Haitian relief efforts. With thousands of Haitians and other citizens crowding around the Port au Prince airport, relief plans are returning back to the U.S. and other destinations with hundreds of empty seats, because there...
by Ned S. Levi | Oct 17, 2008
The State Department has issued a strongly-worded Travel Alert for US citizens traveling and living in Mexico. Bottom line: next time you go south of the border, you have to be street smart. The government says because of the Mexican government’s crackdown on...
