Must have own Passport

[TonyBlenk]

<span style=&#39;color:maroon&#39;>This recently appeared in Travel Weekly, the industry press for the Travel Trade.</span id=&#39;maroon&#39;>

ABTA (association of British Travel Agents) is to begin an awareness raising campaign in September to ensure children going to the US during October’s half-term break are not refused entry because they don’t have a passport.

A deadline of October 26, the first Tuesday of the autumn half-term, has been set by US authorities for machine-readable passports for entry into the US. It means every individual has to have their own passport.

But it is estimated there could be up to 200,000 children in the UK who still share their parents’ passports.

An ABTA spokeswoman said the campaign, which will be through consumer and trade media, will be timed to coincide with the start of the school year, when half-term holidays are on parents’ minds.

She added: “At the last meeting there seemed to be some evidence that bookings were being affected because people don’t want the additional expense of getting passports or visas, but we have had more passport applications this year so there is evidence of people taking action.”

[alan360]

I know it's not our responsibility, but it might be a nice gesture from us villa owners putting a note in with booking forms or just letting potential renters know of the changes to passports. All part of the service that we provide I guess.

We will be updating our web site and paperwork to reflect these changes.

[Mr G]

Good idea Al.
I have just emailed all my future bookings with the details from the US Embassy site and also the link to their site.
For everyones information the UK Passport office are presently turning passport applications around in 8 days.I know as we have just obtained a new one for our son.