I’ve travelled lots and wanted to share my international travel tips for passports with you.
Before you leave home:
- make sure your passport is up-to-date
- you will need at least 3 months of validity, before your passport expires
- don’t leave it until the last minute – renew it well in advance – trust me on this – I ended up paying a fortune to get mine renewed at the last minute, so I can be the voice of experience here :-)
- Scan your passport
- save it as .gif or .jpg
- attach it to an email
- if you don’t have access to a scanner, take a PHOTO of the main pages with your digital camera, save as .jpg onto your computer, or email it to yourself from your phone
- send yourself the email just before you leave home for the airport
- tip! if you use gmail.com, don’t even send it – attach the jpg to a New Email, then simply save it in your account; when you login overseas, it will be there waiting for you.
If you follow my international travel tips for passports before you get to your destination, you will have a COPY of your passport [and any additional pages you also scanned], in case you need it.Couldn’t be easier!
My travel tip for you?
Plan ahead :-) List all your documents, travel paperwork etc, and mark them off your list as you scan them.
You may end up being soooo glad you did!
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