Re: passports for NANOG-39, Toronto

[Marshall Eubanks <tme () multicasttech com>]

In DC, at least, you can get an appointment (no Congressional  
pressure required), go to
an office in the AM and pick it up the same day. I have done this  
several times;
it always amazes me how many people are in line who are
leaving the country the same day, but I wouldn't push it that far.  
Here are the offices :

http://travel.state.gov/passport/about/agencies/agencies_913.html

You will spend a good fraction of the day doing this (the appointment  
is really an
appointment to sit in a waiting room, and you have to do it twice).

Regards
Marshall

On Oct 26, 2006, at 1:07 AM, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:

> particularly if you are in the DC area, call your congressman's  
> district
> (usually) office and ask them to send the Passport Office a  
> "congressional
> courtesy" request. In practice, this means that you don't stand in  
> line, but
> go upstairs to the diplomatic processing area, and, with proper  
> documents
> and photos, you'll probably have the passport in under an hour.
> I believe there is also a priority program for cities that have  
> Passport
> Office branches. Just one of the perks of incumbents.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On  
> > Behalf Of
> > Robert E. Seastrom
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:26 PM
> > To: nanog () nanog org
> > Subject: passports for NANOG-39, Toronto
> >
> >
> >
> > You may have heard that the US and Canada are going to start  
> > requiring
> > passports for air travel between them beginning "soon".  That date is
> > currently set as 8 Jan 2007, which is before February NANOG.  MERIT
> > has noted this on the web site, but a cursory check of my list
> > archives didn't turn up mention of it (sorry if I overlooked it; the
> > last couple of weeks have been hectic), so I figured I'd include the
> > pointer:
> >
> >    http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0702/passport.html
> >
> > as well as a link to the State Department:
> >
> >    http://travel.state.gov/passport/passport_1738.html
> >
> > Normal passport processing is "within six weeks", but that probably
> > doesn't take the holiday season into account.  If you don't have a
> > passport already and plan to travel from the US to NANOG 39 in
> > Toronto, getting on that project sometime in the next month or so
> > would allow plenty of spare time.  No reason to pay expedite fees if
> > you don't have to.
> >
> >                                         ---Rob