Don’t Leave Home Without These
March 26, 2009 by Mary Jo Manzanares
Filed under Cruises, European Travel, Travel Tips
Gearing up for some international travel this year?
As part of your trip planning process, make sure that you have all your paperwork in order. If you’re flying be air, or on a cruise ship, you’ll be asked for some of these documents before boarding. Don’t forget them — you’re won’t be able to leave home without it!
Here’s what you need:
- Passport or Green Card
- Notarized permission to travel letters for all minors (under 18 years of age) not traveling with BOTH parents.
- Any required Visa for countries you will be visiting.
- Sufficient medication for the duration of your trip, in its ORIGINAL container (with the prescription label on it).
- Receipts or registration for any recently acquired electronics. This may not be necessary, but if there is any doubt about whether you purchased the goods abroad (and therefore need to declare it), a receipt will answer that question quickly. “Recently acquired” is usually defined as under six months.
- Proof of Rabies vaccination for any dogs traveling with you.
- If you are traveling with a lot of expensive jewelry, copies of receipts or appraisals. Again, this is for the purpose of establishing that you owned the items prior to leaving the country, should it become a question.
- Valid driver’s license, and international driver’s license if needed, along with proof of insurance.
- Insurance and other health cards and information
And, of course, don’t forget your itinerary, tickets, boarding pass, credit cards, travelers checks and register and money.
Photo credit: SXC
I’d add a photocopy of your passport and Driver’s License, stored in another bag or wallet. It helps if you lose the original.
Better yet, instead of carrying around copies of your electronics receipts, photocopies of passport pages, your license(s), and even trip itinerary info, scan them and save them as online google documents. That way, even if you lose all of your luggage and documents, you still will be able to retrieve copies of any of your important documents at any internet access point in the world.
Good tip.
I set up an email file where I put on my documents related to the trip. I can access info via my iPhone or laptop. It’s not as good as the original, obviously, but it’s a handy back up if it’s needed.
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