Anonymous wrote:So, despite me pushing my DH on this for months, he didn’t update his license or his passport.
A few weeks ago (5 or 6 maybe?) he updated his license. We’re in California where we can see that his license was mailed (according to the online information it was sent 12 days ago) but it hasn’t arrived.
Unfortunately, because I was sick and he was busy and thought the license would be here, he didn’t apply for a passport. We fly cross country very early (about 7 am) on Sunday.
Because I had a lot of miles, our two children and I are on award tickets and I paid for DH’s ticket separately. I feel like that at least gives us a little flexibility.
Today was the last day we could have paid $400 something and gone to San Francisco (about an hour) to get a rushed passport through a private company that expedites this. Now the choices I can think of follow. Which would you do? Anything I’m not thinking of?:
(1) Hope it arrives and, if not, hope his non real-ID license, his license application (showing he applied for real ID) and documents (lease etc) are able to get him through security. We’d have to do it all again returning just after new year’s or ask my friend to look for it in our mail and overnight his license if it arrives.
Also, if he can’t get through, I don’t know if we can cancel / change his flight that late. I assume not once he’s checked in? I’d be tempted to change it to a few days later.
(2) pay the company more (like $700) for expedited 2 day passport. And I think you need a post office appointment for this so not sure that works.
(3) Buy a refundable international flight and see if he can get an expedited passport appointment based on that and then cancel the flight. But a friend flying to Mexico last year could only get expedited appointments far away (none in SF) so I doubt that’s easy to do. (And it feels a bit unethical.)
You don’t need to update your passport unless it’s expired. There is no Real ID passport.
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