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Steven Frischling, aka: Fish, is globe hopping professional photographer, airline emerging media consultant working with large global airlines and founder of The Travel Strategist. Fish has racked up more than 1,000,000 miles since he started to track his mileage in 2005.

Fish's travel tends to be less than leisurely, including flying from New York to Basrah, Iraq, for six hours; Hong Kong for eight hours, Kuwait City for two hours and traveling around the world in 3.5 days to shoot a series of photo assignments in 4 cities and 4 countries on 3 separate continents.

Fish grew up at the end of New York's JFK International Airport's Runway 4R/22L, which probably explains his enjoyment of watching planes, fly overhead. When not shooting photos or traveling Fish designs camera bags, hones is expertise on airline security and spends his time at home cheering for the Red Sox with his 3 kids 102 yards from the ocean.

Reminder: As of June 1st (tomorrow) Passports Are Required For Entry Into The United States By Land Or Sea

05.31.2009 | Author: flyingfish | Posted in Uncategorized

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31/05/2009 – Reminder:  As of June 1st (tomorrow) Passports Are Required For Entry Into The United States By Land Or Sea

While Flying With Fish rarely if ever discussed land and sea travel, tomorrow is an important date for all travellers entering the United States.  As of tomorrow, June 1st  2009, Passports are required for ALL Ports of Entry into the United States.

For those of you who only fly domestically, but take cruises to The Island and car trips to Mexico and Canada…your drivers license and birth certificate won’t cut it any more. You will be required to present a Passport as of tomorrow.

For United States Citizens there are two options.

1) A traditional Passport Book, which is valid for land, sea and air ports of entry info the United States and around the world.

2) A Passport Card, which is ONLY valid for land and sea entries into the US, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Bermuda.   The Passport Card is NOT accepted for entry into any of the afore mentioned countries by air, and is not accepted by any other countries for sea entries…obviously land entries from the US are only possible between Canada & Mexico (I have also heard from multiple travellers that the TSA refused to accept their Passport Card as valid ID, which is a violation of the TSA’s policy).

So before you fly out to San Diego to spend a day in Tijuana or board your cruise for The Bahamas, make sure you have a valid passport with you!

US Citizens who do not have a passport can visit : http://travel.state.gov/passport

Non-US Citizens entering the United States by Land, Sea or Air should consult their own Government to obtain a Passport.

…In just 9hrs 9min 02sec the borders are going to become much stricter!

Happy Flying!

One Response

  1. Donna June 1st, 2009 at 11:40 am

    Some border states also issue Enhanced Drivers Licenses. According to Homeland Security documentation “The EDL is an acceptable stand alone Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) compliant document for entry into the United States at all land and sea ports of entry”. Currently these EDLs are available to residents of Vermont, New York, Michigan and Washington.

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