By Lornet Turnbull
Seattle Times staff reporter
If you travel to the Caribbean, Mexico or even Canada, the federal government soon will require that you have a valid passport to get back home.
And for the first time, our Canadian neighbors also will need a passport to travel south of the border.
"Border officers now are looking at car after car and all manner of ID — birth certificates, driver's licenses from every state, church-denomination cards — all of which are ripe for creating fraudulent documents. It's much harder to create a fraudulent passport."
I'm a semi-regular traveller to Canada, and I've always felt like I was getting away with something. International travel really ought to require a passport, shouldn't it?
We're still living in a post 9-11 world, and that means no more short cuts.
I suspect some people will increase their international travel. If a traveller already has a passport for her trips to Mexico and Canada, there's one less barrier if she decides to take a trip abroad.
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That reminds me. I need to renew mine before it expires.
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