When should I get a 52-page United States passport vs. a normal passport?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 24 Jul, 2023
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Get the bigger one. 10 years is a long time. It’s a free upgrade.
It’s easy to get a ballpark worse-case estimate. If you count one page per trip (one entry stamp and one exit stamp on the same page), 10 years of validity and 24 pages, that’s at least between 2 and 3 trips per year. In reality, you will manage more than that (because stamps are small and border guards can put them on pages that have already been used) but you might also need several pages for a single country (e.g. if you need a visa – but US citizens are lucky in this respect as they can visit many countries without one).
My understanding is that the choice between 24 and 52 pages is at the discretion of the passport office. If that’s your very first passport and unless you just started a career that requires frequent travel abroad, you’re very unlikely to either get or need the 52-page variant.
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