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I (Vicki Skinner - aka "THE Sarong Goddess") created this blog in 2007 to share DETAILED Finds•Lists•Info•Events•Experiences to help bring more EASE to people living in, visiting or thinking of moving to Costa Rica since DETAILS are NOT easy to find!
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Thursday, January 15, 2015

My AMAZING Experience getting my new U.S. Passport in Costa Rica!!


I literally JUST walked in the door from an AMAZING experience!!

I applied for a new U.S. Passport (my pages were full from all my Visa Runs [plus extra trips to Nicaragua - just because]) at 11am on Wednesday December 31.

They said it would take about 10 business days & since it was a holiday week when a LARGE % of the employees were off - I figured it would take longer.

I received my email that it was in on . . . Wednesday - January 8 - just 4 business days later!!!!

I went to the embassy today to pick it up.  I decided to leave my bag in my friends car so I didn't have to check it in, check all my electronic gizmos, get scanned, etc., & from the minute I put my hand on the door to walk into the first entrance (security), waited for the 2 guys in front of me, got my passport & signed it, they punched the 2 holes in it (above), ask the gal how her Christmas was - I was OUT the last exit door in . . . 10 MINUTES!!!!
(Goddess I LOVE [& often miss] EFFICIENCY!!!)

Just sharin' a POSITIVE experience in CR!!!
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DAMN!!

I thought it seemed heavier & I just counted my pages & sure enough - they gave me the "free" extra pages even though I swear I SPECIFICALLY checked off that I did NOT want them.

Hmmm - MAYBE this is a sign to sometime in the next few years I'm going to be elsewhere!! (maybe it's a sign that [in the NOT too near future] I'll be traveling all over the world for awhile!!! 
Hey - I'm open to that!!)

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Check out my
Step-by-Step Guide on
LivingLifeInCostaRica.blogspot.com/2013/02/renewing-your-us-passport-cr.html


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LivingLifeInCostaRica.blogspot.com/2015/01/My2014USPassportRenewalExperience.html
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