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From: Earl Evleth on 7 Jul 2010 12:02 (CNN) -- Get ready to open your wallet a little wider to satisfy your travel bug: It is soon going to cost more to apply for a new U.S. passport or renew an old one -- a move criticized by the public and some lawmakers. Starting next Tuesday, adults applying for their first passport book will have to pay $135 -- a 35 percent increase from the current $100 fee. (The cost of the wallet-size passport card, which Americans can use on certain trips closer to home, is rising from $45 to $55 for first-time applicants.) Want to add more visa pages to your passport book? It's free now, but you will have to shell out $82 under the new fee schedule. The renewal fee for passport books will rise to $110 -- up from the current $75. There's even a new fee if you'd like formally to renounce your U.S. citizenship -- it costs nothing now, but the price tag will be $450 starting Tuesday. (the French runs 85 euros) *** The $450 to renounce! I wonder why so much? I would think would could just send one's passport in to the Statement Department along with a written declaration, "I'm quitting". So one stops paying US Taxes and only pays the inheritance tax in the country one does have citizenship.
From: John Rennie on 7 Jul 2010 12:19 Earl Evleth wrote: > (CNN) -- Get ready to open your wallet a little wider to satisfy your travel > bug: It is soon going to cost more to apply for a new U.S. passport or renew > an old one -- a move criticized by the public and some lawmakers. > > Starting next Tuesday, adults applying for their first passport book will > have to pay $135 -- a 35 percent increase from the current $100 fee. > (The cost of the wallet-size passport card, which Americans can use on > certain trips closer to home, is rising from $45 to $55 for first-time > applicants.) UK Passport cost �77.50 or about $117 and that's the cost of renewing it as well as the cost of a first one. Passport applications have declined by 50% since 2007 - must be a recession about.
From: S Viemeister on 7 Jul 2010 12:33 On 7/7/2010 12:19 PM, John Rennie wrote: > UK Passport cost �77.50 or about $117 and that's the cost of renewing it > as well as the cost of a first one. > Costs much more if you're resident abroad, and have to apply through the British Embassy. My mother recently applied for a passport renewal, and the fees were over $200.
From: Earl Evleth on 7 Jul 2010 12:56 On 7/07/10 18:19, in article Q6SdnctZEJttNanRnZ2dnUVZ8v6dnZ2d(a)giganews.com, "John Rennie" <john-rennie(a)talktalk.net> wrote: > Passport applications have declined by 50% since 2007 - > must be a recession about. On the other hand French ID cards are free and one can travel the EU one these.
From: d4g4h4 on 7 Jul 2010 13:11
S Viemeister <firstname(a)lastname.oc.ku> wrote: > On 7/7/2010 12:19 PM, John Rennie wrote: > > > UK Passport cost �77.50 or about $117 and that's the cost of renewing it > > as well as the cost of a first one. > > > Costs much more if you're resident abroad, and have to apply through the > British Embassy. My mother recently applied for a passport renewal, and > the fees were over $200. My mum was recently faced with either going to Norway or down to London to renew her Norwegian passport. She went to Norway... -- (*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate www.davidhorne.net (email address on website) "[Do you think the world learned anything from the first world war?] No. They never learn." -Harry Patch (1898-2009) |