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Jun 10, 2007 | 9:04 am

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Originally Posted by viking407rob

Thats how I'd take it. They can't get their act together and issue all the passports with the little chips in a timely manner. A traveler who applied well ahead of time shouldn't be subjected to additional screening. It isn't their fault the responsible agencies couldn't efficiently handle the request in time.

I has been pretty much impossible to travel out of the USA by air without a passport to anywhere (including Canada) for the last 5-7 years. The airlines have been insisting on passports for travel out of the USA for a while. So, I really have no idea what this chain is about.

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