Speed up Your Next Passport Renewal With This App
Now there is another reason to use Mobile Passport: you can use it to renew your passport.
Mobile Passport announced a partnership with RushMyPassport this week that will allow you to complete part of the passport renewal process through the app. Perhaps its best new feature is a reminder that you need a new passport first.
6 months before your passport expires, Mobile Passport will send you a push notification to alert you. After that, it will guide you through the update process.
Travel + Leisure notes that you will still have to do things like mail in your old passport and a new photo, as well as the paperwork normally associated with getting a new passport, but the whole process will be a little easier and faster than it would have been. if you did it in person at the passport office.
However, receiving this reminder can be a potential lifesaver.
A mobile passport can come in handy if you ever travel abroad. It’s not as good as Global Entry, but the free app lets you fill out the customs paperwork required to enter the United States digitally on your phone, then go through the fast track customs line upon landing.
It is not available at all airports, but it is available at many and can save you a decent amount of time going through customs.