Travel Tips: Passport rules get more confusing
By Rob Lovitt
Travel writer
Updated: 1:23 p.m. MT Oct 10, 2006
If you’re planning a Caribbean cruise or Mexican vacation this winter, you may be able to take one thing off your to-do list. Thanks to a last-minute change in impending federal regulations, you may not need to get a passport after all.
Then again, you might. According to the new regs, some travelers will, indeed, need a passport come January, while others won’t for up to another two years. Stranger yet, whether you will or won’t has less to do with where you’re going than how you intend to get there.
