Bahamas Passport Application Form

I call this my $2000 Sushi lunch story. I was going from San Francisco (SFO) to Tokyo (NRT) on a business trip. At SFO my passport was checked three times, first at the check in gate, second when I bought some wine at duty free and finally just before I boarded the flight. Once I was in the jet way I was called over to pick up bags with my duty free items from a cart.I board the plane and settle in for 9+ hour flight to NRT. An hour before landing we are given landing cards to fill out so I fish out a pen and look for my passport so I can write my passport # correctly. I can’t find it. Looked through every pocket, upturned the contents of every bag, lifted seat cushions around me. Nada, nowhere to be found. By this time the purser had noticed and she says, “This will become a problem”. After landing and after the passengers deplaned, the staff helped me search again high and low. No luck.Rather than wait in line for immigration check, I approached a Japanese immigration officer and informed him of my situation so he leads me down some long hallway into what appears to be a holding cell deep in the bowls of the terminal building. No windows, bright lights, hard bench, and a Middle Eastern man standing under the vent fan blowing cigarette smoke into the ceiling fan. Left here to stew for what seemed like eternity. Almost bummed a cigg from my cell mate to ease the tension.Two immigration officers come in along with a United Airlines ground staff who was bilingual. I explained what had happened and showed them a color photocopy of my passport pages that I always keep separately. I explained that I had travelled to Japan numerous times on this very same passport without incident and they could look me up in their system.After some translation and conversations, the United guy calls the US Embassy and puts me on the phone. I speak with the embassy staff. They say no problem since I know the passport number, etc. they could issue me an emergency replacement within 2 hours when I visit the embassy in Tokyo.Now here comes the twist, per Japanese law, I can not enter the country and go to the US Embassy without a passport or travel document. So this first option is not really an option.Option two was that if I wait till its morning in SFO, they will call the United gate agent to see if my passport has been found/ turned-in. If it is located, UA will send it on their next flight to NRT. Couple of problems with this option. The Japanese officers say I can not leave the airport while I wait. I am welcome to stay at the airport hotel and will have to hire a private security guard @ $350/night at my expense to stand outside my door until my passport arrives. UA guy points out that there is no guarantee that my passport would be located.Option three is that I apply for ‘special permission’ to enter Japan without a passport. This application may or may not be granted. Even if it is granted and I am allowed in, my name will forever be on some “Watch List” and every time I return to Japan, I will be subjected to secondary questioning and hassles at immigrations.Finally after some rounds of discussions, Option 4 is offered. I would get back on the same aircraft I came on which was to depart in 4 hours and return to US without me ever having ‘entered’ Japan.After mulling it over a bit, I choose option #4, as option #3 was not advisable if I intended to continue my frequent business trips to Japan. I was issued a new boarding pass and waited with everyone else to board to SFO flight. This is when I had my $2060 sushi lunch ($2,000 for RT air ticket + $60 for sushi).Thankfully I was flying business class otherwise another 10 hour flight would have been miserable. I survived it and upon landing went straight to secondary passport inspection counter and showed them my passport photocopy. They brought up my picture on screen and asked me some personal identification questions and logged me in. Told me to file a lost passport report a.s.a.p. and waved me right through. I probably cleared immigration faster than the majority of other passengers.By this time my internal clock is totally out of whack, having traversed 18 time zones in a 24 hour span. I stayed up till three in the morning SFO time and gave my presentation to my team in Tokyo over a Video Call from my kitchen table.Lesson learnt: Hold on to your passport real tight. Carry photocopies of travel documents and hide them in your luggage and/or upload pics of important docs to a cloud drive.p.s. I checked with United and the Airport’s lost & found department. My passport was never turned in. Filed a lost passport report and applied for a new one.

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Specimen Annexure-B can be seen at the following link -http://passportindia.gov.in/AppO...It can be seen that following data has to be filled in the form -Date of Birth ………………………………..Place of Birth ………………………………..Educational Qualification ………………………………..Profession (Govt./Private Service/Others) ………………………………..Permanent Address .………………………………..Present Address …………………………………Thus filling the form is not a problem as the applicants must know the above mentioned particulars.The real issue lies in getting it signed by the authorities who are authorized to issue the same as listed in the format.

I would ask the company that is giving you the invitation letter for your visa for assistance finding an apartment.For approximately 2+ years I lived and taught in various schools teaching English: Wuxi, Xamian, Xa'in, Shanghai, Qinhuangdao, Beijing, Nanjing, Liaoning, Jinhua, Chengdu, and Qinhuangdao which was the last place I was teaching before returning to the United States in 2015.If I was being hired through a recruiting agency, the agency always paid for my temporary residence until everything was was ready for me to move over to a apartment. If you do a little digging around online you will find many examples of people who weren't prepared for the realities of living in China, such as this person:I've had problems before. It's quite frustrating when the staff tell you "You are a foreigner. You can't stay here" as if that's a totally acceptable situation. In these instances, I think they either didn't have a computer registration system that had an allowance for foreigners or didn't know how to use it. Another quite likely possibility is that they didn't want to admit that they weren't sure how to use it.When it was clear that I didn’t know how to prepare and budget for my expenses in China, every organization would advance me RMB.Understand that “Education” is within the top 5 industries in China and the private English training centers are big money makers, so naturally there will be competition, and the parents compete in getting their child the best education possible. I can honestly say, the concern and attention that is given by the parents in China to their child’s future, dwarfs anything I have ever seen in the United States. If a child somehow had the choice to choose where they wanted to grow up, I’m pretty sure they would choose China over the United States. Why?No hand-me-down clothes.No dissapointment Christmas mornings when the largest gift under the tree didn’t have their name on the tag.More likely to have an intact family.Don’t get kicked to the curb at age 18.Don’t have to devote endless time, money, and flowers looking for someone to marry.Those sort of things.Continuing with the residence topic, my apartment in Nanjing wasn’t ready, because most of the building was still being built — but I didn’t sweat it, it’s common and expected that the foreigner will need assistance finding a place to live.Never once, in all my time in China, did I ever do these two things myself:Open a bank accountFind housingThe majority of hotels that did allow foreigners and were in complete compliance with the laws in China, were in the bigger cities where there is more demand to hire foreigners. In fact, I never felt special in Beijing, because there were white people all over the place!Since you are talking about accommodations, remember this, it happens everywhere.Hotels will tell you to surrender your passport. Ask your friend or coworker accompanying you to any hotel if the hotel can scan the passport and leave you with the physical passport. More than likely they will say “no” but it doesn’t hurt to ask, even in China.Here are some requirements, and you should never skirt (try to bypass) any rule in China, especially if you are a foreigner and wish to travel or work in China in the future.Apart from Liaoning and Hebei provinces where I encountered this issue regularly I had no issue's. So to me it feels like a regional issue. Though I tend to move every couple of days the number of places I've been is limited so this is not reliable statistics. A fair number of the places I stayed did not register me with the PSB. Some didn't ask for my passport or if presented had only a quick look and gave it back. Also, several seemed at a complete loss on how to register a foreigner, made a copy of the passport to sort it out later.As a foreigner in China myself, I've noticed that China has an awkward love-hate relationship with all things foreign. On the one hand, the Chinese are fascinated by foreigners. English signs on shops and restaurants are fashionable and prestigious. American-style housing suburbs are all the rage. Western sports stars and Hollywood celebrities have massive fan followings here. After decades of Maoist isolation, the Chinese are eagerly traveling to foreign countries, studying English, watching Hollywood movies, eating Western food and listening to Western music.In the same way Americans take pride in the United States, the Chinese also take pride in their country. If you are ever brought to dinner and don’t know how to break-the-ice and initiate a conversation, as about the 5,000+ years of history that China has in comparison to the few hundred the United States has.Be a considerate and polite guest in China, as any perceived slight by a foreigner might come across as disrespecting China or its people, even in relatively petty incidents such as traffic accidents or street disputes.Occasionally, I have been asked if I am aware of China’s laws regarding the stay of foreigners in hotels. If I was asked to sit at a computer, they’d already clicked three or four screens deep to set me up for domestic tourist registration.In most provinces, there are two tabs in the upper left hand corner. There are some subtle differences in each province. When you sit down at the computer the first tab “境内游客入住” will probably have already been chosen. Hotel staff do this automatically. Until you point out the existence of the “境外游客入住” tab they may have been completely unaware that it existed.Point out the Foreign Tourist Residency Registration if asked “境外游客入住” and tell the hotel staff that you understand the PSB requirements for registering foreign guests.Everything that is marked in red, starred, or underlined (depending on the province) must be filled out. Having accidentally misspelled my own name on one very tired occasion, entered my passport number wrong on another, and learning that I had been putting in the wrong visa information.Once (and only once) in Sichuan, the moment I entered my passport number, almost all of the other information that had been entered the night before was automatically filled in. But it only happened the one time in Sichuan and nowhere else.Keep in mind that not every province has the same things marked in red. Passport Number, Passport Type, Country of Origin, Gender, Birthdate, Type of Visa, Expected Date of Departure from China, Date of Entry into China, and Port of Entry are all reliably in red. Room number is never in red but if you don’t fill it out the system won’t allow your submission to go through.I fill out most nearly everything on the form. It’s easier than figuring out what’s in red for this province. The only blank I absolutely will not fill in is “credit card number”.John | Boulder Bridges @ Ready to Work Employment| 4747 Table Mesa Dr, Boulder, CO 80305 | Google Maps | Boulder Bridges | Facebook | John Russell Burgreen III

Entry, Exit and Visa Requirements U.S. citizens are generally required to present a valid U.S. passport when traveling to The Bahamas, as well as proof of anticipated departure from The Bahamas.

It is possible to travel to the Bahamas from the United States without a passport, but it is not advisable. ... The passport card cannot be used for entry into the states by air. When traveling by air from the Bahamas, all US citizens must provide a valid US passport to enter or re-enter the states.

A valid passport from your country of origin of which expiry date, after return from The Bahamas, must NOT be less than 3 months (for direct travel) and NOT less than 6 months (if transiting through other countries such as the US)

Processing of Passports usually takes a period of three to five weeks.

Completed Application Form. Three (3) photographs in color with white background. Applicant's Birth Certificate/Registered Affidavit/Adoption Certificate. National Insurance Card. Existing Passport. $25.00 processing fee (15 years & under). $50.00 processing fee (15½ years & older).