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El Gallo · Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 318

Has anyone renewed his or her US passport at the US Embassy in Mexico City? Is this possible? With "Homeland Security" seizing citizens' laptops when they return to the country and other things going on during the current regime, I would rather stay in Mexico to renew by US passport (I need it for my FM-2 until I become a Mexican citizen)

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

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El Gallo · Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 318

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080102988.html

El Gallo · Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 318

Here's the same story with a little more detail:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080103030.html

I'm sure all my Powerpoint flashcards about funiture, rooms of the house, families, food, days of the weeks and weeks of the year are a real threat to the "Homeland Security" of the US. Maybe I'll have my students now read Orwell:P