First passport at the age of 5, even if prior to that I was flying internationally, however, just with a birth certificate and a visa document.
Well, except that one time where my mom told me that I went to Guadaloupe as an infant, she didn't bring any documentation, and it was fine entering, but leaving the island they were challenging my parents on documentation, and they had to stay a day to get some notarized certification that I was in fact their daughter and it was legal for me to exit with my parents. Initially they wanted to "keep me" in some version of CPS and my mother pitched a fit, since (she claims) that they went over the doc requirements and (she understood that) there were no requirements for infants.
I still have all of them. Every time I sent it in for renewal, there was such a pause on whether I'd get it back.
They'll punch holes in it so it's obviously invalid and send it back.
But if you purchased a 10 year visa in, say, Argentina, you can still bring your expired passport with the (not expired) visa and it's valid!
fun fact.
Another fun fact! If you have a US passport, the stamp that you get upon flying into Argentina isn't actually a visa.
It's a receipt that shoes you paid the reciprocity fee. Basically Argentina is happy to allow any US passport holder to visit, so you don't need to apply for a tourist visa. However, since the US requires Argentinians to have a visa to visit the US, the Argentinian government charges US visitors the same amount of money to visit Argentina.
But if you purchased a 10 year visa in, say, Argentina, you can still bring your expired passport with the (not expired) visa and it's valid!
fun fact.
Another fun fact! If you have a US passport, the stamp that you get upon flying into Argentina isn't actually a visa.
It's a receipt that shoes you paid the reciprocity fee. Basically Argentina is happy to allow any US passport holder to visit, so you don't need to apply for a tourist visa. However, since the US requires Argentinians to have a visa to visit the US, the Argentinian government charges US visitors the same amount of money to visit Argentina.
It's such a "you need to come back again to make it worth your investment". Ha.
The thought of not having a valid passport makes me feel panicky. Like trapped or something. What if I need to go somewhere? For work? For fun? What if we need to escape? What if someone surprises me with a getaway? How lame to have to turn it down for such a simple reason.
I don't know- it's probably my Latin American blood since we have family who did need to leave very tense political situations in the early 1970's.
I will definitely apply for a passport for this baby right away though.
I got mine when I was about 6 weeks old. The thought of not having a valid passport makes me feel panicky. Like trapped or something. What if I need to go somewhere? For work? For fun? What if we need to escape? What if someone surprises me with a getaway? How lame to have to turn it down for such a simple reason.
I don't know- it's probably my Latin American blood since we have family who did need to leave very tense political situations in the early 1970's.
I will definitely apply for a passport for this baby right away though.
Same here. I'm in Chile on my UK passport, and when I had to send it off for renewal I was like "but what if I need to leave the country urgently?!?!" This was even though I'm sure I could have gotten some emergency travel permission to leave OR I could have just left to a Mercosur country on my Chilean ID card and then gotten a flight to wherever from there AND with me still having my US passport to enter into another country. So really, I am just crazy.