Traveling with Birth Certificate

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3 hours ago, Essiesmom said:

Actually, a temp used to be only good for 6 months.  

There's really no specific time that a temporary passport is good for.  It depends on the situation it's issued under.  It can be for as short a time as necessary to get someone back to the US (weeks or months), or up to a year.

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5 hours ago, Mary229 said:

Gary Bembridge did a video this week and made the valid point that if you are evacuated from the ship for any reason that you will need a passport to fly home.  It is something I never considered.  This was an issue with the Norwegian Escape last year.  

And not all islands (in fact in the Caribbean many don't) have a US Embassy or Consulate to issue passports in an emergency situation.  For example, the US Embassy Barbados covers the Eastern Caribbean (Grenada, Dominica, St, Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and St. Nevis, St, Vincent and the Grenadines in addition to Barbados).