Are you saying you currently hold both a valid US and Canadian passport? If so your place of birth on the Canada passport is irrelevant, if you are using that, you are travelling as a Canadian Citizen. I wouldn’t even try to enter the US as a US citizen while presenting a Canada passport. It won’t go well.
If you have a travel emergency while your passport is in the middle of being renewed, you can contact the State Dept. and request a Life-or-Death emergency appointment. But they have a narrow range of what actually constitutes an emergency: An immediate family member has died, is dying, or has a life-threatening illness or injury. That’s it.
I have to assume that this is probably a very common reason for getting a replacement passport. Hell, it happened to me. I still was able to travel on it for quite awhile (I would cross borders at least once a month for a couple years), but the border guards kept picking at the plastic around my picture so much that it eventually slid out, so I had to get a new one.
Yes, I have both passports. But if I try to enter the US as a Canadian, they will see that I was born in the US and are likely to ask if I am a citizen. So I always use the US passport to enter the US and the Canadian passport to return. Which confuses the airlines no end. Although probably not all that unusual.
Good to know. There were horror stories last year including this one: Larry Rouse did everything right. But his passport came too late. - The Washington Post
Hopefully the link works, it didn’t let me get a “gift” link. But basically the person feature had filed 3+ months before he needed the passport, AND he paid for expedited processing. Still didn’t come in time.
Times have changed. In 1970 I was preparing to spend a year in Switzerland. My wife and I went to the US consulate and asked to get passports. Our old ones were from 1964, but in those days passports expired in five years. The man we spoke to, who turned out to be the actual consul, took the info and the expired passports and said to come back the next day. Then he said, “Wait, do you have 15 minutes?” Sure we did. He disappeared and came back 15 minutes later with our new passports. As it happened, the Swiss consulate was next door and we went right in and applied for visas. In all the time we were in the US consulate, no one else appeared. Nowadays the US consulate is swarming with people applying for visas and you have to go through rounds of security to go in. And while a purse is acceptable for a woman, don’t try to bring in a backpack or a bag at all. There is no place to check it and they will not let you in. OTOH, without asking for any special handling, I got a passport in about three weeks in 2016. I think they do it in house.
This. They will put you on the next plane back, on the airline’s dime. Obviously that is supposed to act as an incentive to the airlines not to let undocumented people board.
I need to thank you all again for the wealth of important information and personal experiences that you have shared in this thread. As usual, SDMB has been a treasure trove of information and enlightenment!
Even though I will be a raw rookie when I eventually take a tentative step out of the U.S. and venture forth to other countries, I now know that I will need to research everything thoroughly and leave nothing to chance.
If any friends tell me that they are going to travel abroad, especially for the first time, I will advise them to do just that! Below is an example of a site I was able to Google up in mere seconds.
My son planned to visit Canada. His passport would expire, so he sent it off to get a new one in plenty of time. Except they rejected it, saying that passports issued under the age of 18 are only good for 5 years, and it has been almost 10 years, so he had to start from scratch.
Except… That passport has been issued shortly after his 18th birthday. Some doofus misread either the issue date or the birth date.
There were still covid delays, and it took him ages to reach someone who could help. He left a lot of messages.
Then, two days before his trip, he got a call from the local passport office. The person on the phone was processing his application, and could issue a renewal and drop it in the morning’s mail, but if he wanted to change his gender identifier to “X” as he’d requested, it would have to be shipped to DC and processed there. What did he want?
He asked the person to send the passport.
It arrived 3 hours before he needed to leave to catch his flight.
His appointment is rescheduled for 11am tomorrow. When pressed on how he planned to not sleep through this appointment, he said, “If I don’t get it, just cancel my part of the cruise.”
I am not holding out any great hopes that tomorrow will be successful. We agreed silently with him that if he does not apply tomorrow we are cancelling his cruise and it will be just me and Mrs. Cad for 10 days in the Western Mediterranean.
Coincidentally, one buddy just cancelled from our BC ski trip (I am not going, either), so my other buddy wants to take his son who’s in college in Miami. But his passport is expired. D day is Friday, so we’ll see if he pulls it off.
Part of my fear for today even if he gets to his appointment
He says he needs is social security card. No you don’t. You just need the number and he knows his.
He says he has the $50. Told him repeatedly it is $120 + cost of photos
Did not ask for his birth certificate safely stored upstairs. He says his driver’s licence and social security card is enough. Correct me if I’m wrong, but that just shows lawful presence but not US citizenship.
IOW: not sure he is clear on what he needs. Plus I think he is lazy enough that not going to Italy is worth not getting a passport. Remember he refused to spend 10-15 minutes looking through his boxes for his original passport.
