<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by chrisny2:
My passport was stolen in Barcelona. When I went to the consulate to have a new one issued, I had no photo ID, so the passport has an expiration date of March 2003. On page 23, the Department of State typed in a message "This passport has been extended and will expire on 10 Mar 2012."
Does anyone have experience traveling on a passport like this? </font>
I fail to understand the above entirely. They basically issued your old passport on the basis of the digitized photo on file and then assigned a retroactive expiration date but choose to amend it so that it expires 10 years from that date? Or did something else happen?
[This message has been edited by GUWonder (edited Feb 01, 2004).]