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Why must passport pictures suck???

isabeau

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Same as Drivers License...so i finally got my first ever passport...and i get to live with that picture for ten damn years...ack..and too late i realized i could have brought one from home...however my only consolation is my husband's looks far worse than mine..at least i don't burst out laughing whenever i see mine..instead i burst out crying...sighs..
 
All passport photos are required to look bad because Americans always look like crap when they are traveling....
 
All passport photos are required to look bad because Americans always look like crap when they are traveling....

*giggles*...ah..but ray my very first ever passport...*sighs*...:banghead:
 
Sorry hon but it is the rule of travel......

that's why I never go anywhere which requires ID....

(that and the fact we have no money for travel...lol...)
 
Too bad you don't like your photo, Isabeau. Where are you going? 😀

don't they only last for 5 years????.

Nope, mine is for 10 years, too. I got it in 2006 and it expires in 2016.
 
Too bad you don't like your photo, Isabeau. Where are you going? 😀



Nope, mine is for 10 years, too. I got it in 2006 and it expires in 2016.

We are going to the Virgin Islands the first week of November..five weeks from today in fact..but the airline has just now messed up our schedule plan coming home...:31:
 
All passport photos are required to look bad because Americans always look like crap when they are traveling....

i agree mine looks like crap lol... I didn 't know they took the photo right there this was in 2000 and did not fix my hair. very very very bad hair day even worse passport photo.
 
Rule of Thumb for Tourists

On the morning of your departure, take a few quiet moments and carefully compare yourself with your passport photo.

If you look anything like it, you're too sick to travel.
 
On the morning of your departure, take a few quiet moments and carefully compare yourself with your passport photo.

If you look anything like it, you're too sick to travel.

ha that's a good idea..however since we are leaving in the wee hours of the morning...i probably won't look too terribly better than that photo...why do planes leaving for the Virgin Islands always take off in the god awful early hours of a morning...
 
I hate when they have the camera set up for someone who is 5'8" and snap the picture up my nostrils.
 
Don't even get me started - my passport photo is fucking ridiculous. And I have to live with that shit for 2 more years :sowrong:

Jeff - not one. fucking. word!!!!!!
 
I don't have a passport picture, but I look like a f*ckin' ZOMBIE on my YMCA card. :zomgrabbit: There's also my student ID. :xlime: Oddly enough, I'm rather pleased with my driver's permit photo.
 
Don't even get me started - my passport photo is fucking ridiculous. And I have to live with that shit for 2 more years :sowrong:

Jeff - not one. fucking. word!!!!!!

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I hope you spent alot of time letting your baby look at you on Sunday, because it'll be quite awhile before she can recognize you again. :bonk:
 
My driver's license photo was actually pretty good....

When i need to show my passport, i'll flash it really quickly, like those cops do with their badges on movies..lol..a passport is easier than dragging my birth certificate around..we don't actually need a passport for the US Virgin Islands..but having a passport does give you a certain amount of freedom..and one never knows when a visit to England might come about soon...my only time out of this country, as been twice to the US Virgin Islands...sighs..
 
I can't speak for everyone else, but my Passport photo looks pretty good. I went to Office Depot and had the pictures taken for the shot. Also, it helps to smile in the photo otherwise it ends up looking like a mug shot.
 
Personally, I try not to get wrapped up in how I look in my license or passport; especially when you have to personally hand the official your passport and/or license anyway. They will get to see the REAL you right in front of them; physical judgments would supersede a photograph, no? It is not like a rep from customs is going to say, "Hey! Why do you look like ass in your photo, but quite tasty in real life?"
 
Personally, I try not to get wrapped up in how I look in my license or passport; especially when you have to personally hand the official your passport and/or license anyway. They will get to see the REAL you right in front of them; physical judgments would supersede a photograph, no? It is not like a rep from customs is going to say, "Hey! Why do you look like ass in your photo, but quite tasty in real life?"

that's so true...you are very wise...
 
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