I missed my calling as an international man of mystery

[the_siobhan]

Axel discovered on the way home from his last LARPing trip that he had been crossing the border all summer on an expired passport.

So I checked mine and yep, I have to renew both of them. Irish one expired six months ago, Canadian one expires in four. Not that I have the money to go anywhere, but it's such a pain in the ass to get a new one if you let it lapse that it's worth it to me to eat the cost of renewing them now.

(It suddenly occurs to me that now I'll have to get my English passport as well because of Brexit. And that one lapsed so long ago I'll have to start over. Buggeration. Well, that one can wait.)

So I must seek volunteers to be my references for the Canadian one. And I hope that's not a requirement for the Irish passport, because I honestly don't think I know anybody who isn't a relative.

Comments

[tetsab]

When they changed things so that you had to apply to the British consulate in the states for a passport instead of to Ottawa (no idea what the current situation is) my whole family said fuck it and started only travelling on their Canadian passport. Been doing that for a decade so far haven't had a single inconvenience over it.

What's the plus side to bothering with one, especially post-Brexit (as the only plus I could previously think of was smoother euro travel)?

[greylock]

Smoother Euro travel I think would be the big plus.
And not being seen as a POM in the post-Brexit world.

[the_siobhan]

Smoother travel is the main one.

And countries seem to keep getting weirder faster than my ability to anticipate, so there's also that.