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The past couple of weeks on my way to work, and on my way to lunch, I’ve seen people stacked up in line at the SF Passport Office on Folsom, between 2nd and 3rd.
I’d wondered if it was some new legislation impending, but it looks like it’s actually bad planning, post-9/11 travel restrictions:
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Comment by Elwing on 9 July 2007, 15:31
I wouldn’t call it bad planning on the government’s part, rather bad planning on a lot of tourists’ parts. For the longest time, you didn’t need a passport to cross into Canada, Mexico, or the Carribean, but you do now. In the DC area, there were horror stories of people waiting until the last minute (literally) to get their passports for spring break vacations, and trying to call their congress critters for help.
Sure, the government probably should have expected the demand, but if people want to leave the country, they’ve got to have their passports, so they get to wait.