It’s the holiday time of the year and Ned Levi offers his annual travelers gift list. Ned has found some potential gifts which are definitely “off the beaten path.”
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Looking to getaway this winter? What could be more fun than sailing to an exotic port while the folks back home are shoveling snow? More cruise ships are afloat and more departure ports exist than ever before. Even better, all this extra capacity means better deals. How do you get the best one? Here are five tips.
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Everyone is pretty familiar with the threat levels that were instituted after 9/11/2001. Now a committee is deciding whether they should keep it or at least modify it.
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Midwife-delivered Latino Americans born in the Southwest continued to be unable to obtain a passport even after supplying countless extra documentation. Ned Levi has heard from those who have been affected, and updates us on this serious problem.
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While driving around San Francisco, a security researcher with a scanner captured and cloned Passport Card RFIDs. Security experts have stated the Cards are easily counterfeited. Ned Levi ponders whether any citizen should obtain a Passport Card.
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Do I need a passport to cruise? It’s the biggest question from readers and travel agents say there’s plenty of confusion regarding the U.S. State Department’s guidelines. Here’s the real deal with cruising and the new passport rules launching June 1, 2009.
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The Department of Homeland Security has proposed new US-Visit exit procedures for foreign nationals which could seriously impact US travelers. Ned Levi examines issues raised by the airlines and General Accounting Office.
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When you cruise abroad, the confusing welter of passports and visa regulations, some of which are little-known, can trip you up. Find out how one cruising couple’s cheap cruise turned surprisingly expensive.
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For untold numbers of Latinos born in the Southwest who were delivered by midwives, obtaining a passport has become almost an impossibility, according to a class action suit filed by the ACLU on September 9th. The suit alleges the State Department is sending this group of passport applicants on a “scavenger hunt” and when presented with requested additional documentation, denying the applications anyway.
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You might have missed it — I almost did — but at last week’s National Football League opening game between the Giants and Redskins, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) launched a $12 million public service campaign designed to both alert Americans to the new requirements for crossing the border for foreign travel, and explain the document options Americans have.
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