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Old Dec 13, 2021 | 4:21 pm
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Originally Posted by ACflyerDE
If that was the case your ticket will be flagged in the system once you enter your passport information. Can you pull up the fare rules on united.com? The relevant rule will most likely be included in one of the first paragraphs.
No, a passport has nothing to do with residency.

Originally Posted by mahasamatman
Giving a fake address is not a workaround, it's actually fraud.
It's actually not fraud - it's a workaround, but the address used my not work with a credit card issuer who flags the transaction as fraud due to a mismatch against the credit card billing address, but that is a completely different issue.

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