Travel Tips and Passport Information

Do You Need a Passport to Go to Niagara Falls?

Niagara Falls on a sunny day
Niagara Falls

Without a doubt, Niagara Falls is one of the most impressive waterfalls in the world. The sheer amount of water surging around you is simply sublime. In fact, when Austrian composer Gustave Mahler first encountered the falls, he is said to have exclaimed, “At last, fortissimo!”

Over 28 million tourists visit the falls every year. If you’d like to be one of them, first make sure you have the travel documents you need for your desired itinerary.  

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Submit Your Passport Application Without an Appointment

If you need a passport and you’re having trouble finding the time to turn your passport application in, mark your calendar for Saturday, March 10. That’s when the Department of State will be holding the 4th annual “Passport Day in the USA” to encourage busy Americans to apply for passports.

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Serendipity and a Lost Passport

Would you buy someone else’s long-expired passport? What if the passport showed that, many years ago, the person lived in the same place where you live now?

For Nuno Fonseca, a Portuguese medical student studying in Paris, the pull of the mystery represented by a 60-year-old passport he found at a flea market was too strong to resist.

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Passport Renewal in Boston

One of America’s oldest cities, Boston has been one of the country’s gateways to the rest of the world since before the US even existed. Today at Logan International Airport, you can catch a plane that will take you directly to Canada.

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