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Expedited Passport(card)...proof of travel?? e-ticket?

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SeattleSue    25

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OK, this may be elementary but I cannot find hide nor hair of an answer on the USGOV website (keeping commentary to self here...)

To get an expedited passport, I need to prove travel within 14 days. I'm not flying to Mexico and last I checked, you don't need a passport to enter California. Will I have to show a surgery schedule date? Anyone know?

And IF I have to show travel to San Diego for good faith, does anyone know if an e-ticket will work or do I have to go get a hard copy? lol details details

I figure if I carry my birth certificate and drivers license with me, legally I'm good...but...I really do want to come home! hahahahaha

Thanks in advance!

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msleesa    5

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OK, this may be elementary but I cannot find hide nor hair of an answer on the USGOV website (keeping commentary to self here...)

To get an expedited passport, I need to prove travel within 14 days. I'm not flying to Mexico and last I checked, you don't need a passport to enter California. Will I have to show a surgery schedule date? Anyone know?

And IF I have to show travel to San Diego for good faith, does anyone know if an e-ticket will work or do I have to go get a hard copy? lol details details

I figure if I carry my birth certificate and drivers license with me, legally I'm good...but...I really do want to come home! hahahahaha

Thanks in advance!

To my knowledge you can not go into mexico without a passport. The only way you can go without one is if you bring the receipt for your passport. that way they know that you have attempted to get your passport but it just didn't arrive in time. Even with the receipt you will need a birth certificate or a drivers license.

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KellyL    173

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I didn't have to show proof of anything to get mine expedited. I just pd the fees and filled out a form.

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lucill35    73

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I didn't receive my passport in time to travel to Mexicali but was able to pass through the border with my driver's license, birth certificate and receipt that I had applied for my passport. Ernesto, Dr. Aceves's driver handled it all at the border.

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kemo46    82

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OK, this may be elementary but I cannot find hide nor hair of an answer on the USGOV website (keeping commentary to self here...)

To get an expedited passport, I need to prove travel within 14 days. I'm not flying to Mexico and last I checked, you don't need a passport to enter California. Will I have to show a surgery schedule date? Anyone know?

And IF I have to show travel to San Diego for good faith, does anyone know if an e-ticket will work or do I have to go get a hard copy? lol details details

I figure if I carry my birth certificate and drivers license with me, legally I'm good...but...I really do want to come home! hahahahaha

Thanks in advance!

You will just need to show your driver's license and birth certificate when coming back to the U.S. We had two in our group that did not even apply for a passport and they had no issues. I wish I had known that before and I could have saved on my expedited fee.

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msleesa    5

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I went to the passport agency on Thursday. I just showed them my itinerary to San Diego then told them i was driving to mexico. I paid the $195 and my passport will be ready on wed.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

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