# Do you have a Passport?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-passport/697584>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 5, 2014, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-passport/697584 "2014-09-05T14:49:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-passport/697584/62 "2014-09-09T04:52:55Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> Interesting that it is so high. I have met very few people in real life who regularly leave the country often enough to need a passport.

I think this is like the automatic/manual transmission polls, where one side is much more interested in the topic than the other.

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**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-passport/697584/63 "2014-09-09T06:03:38Z")

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The usual US one for going to Canada and the normal places and one some relatives in Georgia (Republic of) got for me. Partly as a joke, partly as a tribute and partly as a “if things ever go to Hell”. It’s real but several rules were bent in the process.

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**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-passport/697584/64 "2014-09-10T10:30:56Z")

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Quite a few in sequence plus a Govt one at one stage (not Diplomatic).

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**Author:** ![MarcusF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@MarcusF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarcusF)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-passport/697584/65 "2014-09-10T13:17:40Z")

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> [@DrumBum](#):
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> I have a well used US passport with quite a few visa and immigration stamps in it. Being born in Germany, I suppose I could get an EU passport if I wanted.

If you are entitled to another passport it will be a German one - no such thing as an EU passport. They are issued by the member states.

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**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-passport/697584/66 "2014-09-11T00:41:19Z")

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Yup. Mrs. Homie and I both got ours before a Caribbean cruise in 2009.

No telling when (or even if) either of us will ever leave the country again, but if I do, I’m good to go (for five more years, anyway).

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