Do you get your expired passport back?
Jun 2nd, 2010, 12:36 PM
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Do you get your expired passport back?
We let our passports expire because we knew we would not need them for a year or so. Now it's time to renew. They are requesting the expired passport with the application. Will we get them back? I like to keep the old ones just for the stamps. Thanks for any/all information.
I missed it more than the $$.
Jun 3rd, 2010, 07:13 AM
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Yes. I have all our old passports. Thank goodness, too, or I would never had been able to fill out the visa applications for our trip to Russia a few years ago. Who can remember every country they've been for the past 10 years, with dates? It took two days to fill out that thing. Grrrrrrrrumble. After that I started a file with trips/dates in case some other country needs that info.
Jun 5th, 2010, 05:24 PM
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I've always gotten mine back, but my sister and her husband just renewed theirs a few weeks ago and were very disappointed when they didn't get their old passports back. I don't know if there was a policy change, or if they just made a mistake or what.
Jun 6th, 2010, 03:49 AM
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As with most government agencies, the passport agencies are not staffed with the sharpest tacks in the box. I requested extra pages - you have to fill out and include a separate form when you are renewing - and of course they didn't give me extra pages.
Your sister not getting hers back was probably a mistake. but, if you check http://travel.state.gov/passport/faq...741.html#gen11 it says you are supposed to get your old passport back, but it may be sent separately from the new one.
Your sister not getting hers back was probably a mistake. but, if you check http://travel.state.gov/passport/faq...741.html#gen11 it says you are supposed to get your old passport back, but it may be sent separately from the new one.
Jun 6th, 2010, 04:09 AM
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It took the US Government longer to return my old one to me than it did to give me my new one when when I renewed mine in January. Pegs, tell them to be patient, as there's no reason that it won't come... eventually.
Jun 10th, 2010, 02:06 PM
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You do get your old passports back. I have all of mine, some have been punched through, some have a notation that it is no longer valid for use. I had one passport stolen and used the one preceding as partial documentation (all of my ID was taken in a mugging and I was leaving for Italy in 3 weeks)for a replacement. My new passport came with the notation printed on the back inside cover that it was a replacement for a stolen passport and my old was was stamped a second time that it had been replaced.
Nov 1st, 2010, 05:03 AM
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I got the old one back too, and was very glad, as the only previous passport I had been able to find was the one I used to travel to Italy with my parents and sister when I was 3 1/2. I'd have been very upset to lose that.
