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Old Jun 11, 2022, 8:16 pm
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GUWonder
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Originally Posted by Section 107
any estimates or guesses as to what the next increase might be? Don't need to renew mine until next year but if the cost will go up significantly then perhaps I will renew sooner....it might mean 4 or 5 gallons of gas....
That depends on what goes on with gas prices.

I’m out of the loop on such things for now, but I’m positive that again there will be advance, formal notice of a fee increase that will come to attention here at some point. I wish I could say that $200 passports aren’t going to be on the horizon in the next 2-4 years, but I don’t sell wishes for a reason. Even if with an inflation slowdown, we are headed toward such passport fees anyway. I really wish that enough people comes to their senses that we get out of the US WHTI nonsense requiring US citizens to have passports to fly to and from nearby countries. But this “more secure” mentality is going to be a increasingly costly endeavor for US cross-border flyers.
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