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ETIAS Delayed Again: What Travelers Need to Know

If you're heading to Europe this fall, there's one thing you can leave off your pre-trip checklist: applying for ETIAS. The European Travel Information and Authorization System (better known as ETIAS), a long-planned entry requirement for visa-exempt visitors, was supposed to launch in the final quarter of 2026. As of July 2026, that timeline has

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Three Ways Americans Can Get Dual Citizenship

Securing dual citizenship can open up a wide variety of travel possibilities, including unlocking new visa-free destinations and the potential to live and work abroad with ease. If you’re researching how to get dual citizenship, maybe you’re dreaming of moving to a new country, retiring abroad, or traveling extensively around the world. But the process

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What SSSS Means on Your Boarding Pass

For fliers who haven’t encountered it before, SSSS on a boarding pass stands for Secondary Security Screening Selection. It’s the Transportation Security Administration’s method of selecting passengers for additional security checks—and no amount of frequent flying, elite status, or pre-approval through a Trusted Traveler Program such as Clear, NEXUS, Global Entry, or TSA PreCheck guarantees

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Face-to-Face with Walruses in Svalbard

Expedition cruising to the polar regions has never been hotter, even if summer temperatures there hover around freezing. Sure, Antarctica has penguins, but the Arctic lures travelers north with polar bears and walruses, especially in the remote Svalbard archipelago. Here, travel is made easy by expedition ships like Quark Expeditions' Ocean Explorer, which I boarded

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Renewing Your Passport After Major Weight Loss

At passport control in Istanbul last month, I watched a border officer look at my passport, then at my face, then back at my passport. His eyebrows knit together. He called over a colleague. Then another. Within seconds, I had a small panel of Turkish officials studying the seven-year-old photo in my passport and comparing