Passports and MEDICO

With the advent of the new government policies regarding securing passport and their usage in travel we have found the need to prompt all volunteers with these guidelines.

1. Ensure you have applied for your passport in ample time to participate on a field team. Estimates are now at 3 to 4 months to await receipt of one’s passport. This applies to replacement passports as well.
2. Carefully examine your passport expiration date to ensure you have at least 6 months left on your passport upon return from your trip. The Honduran government will not allow you to travel back to your country of origin without a minimum number of months left on your passport and we would prefer to ere on the side of caution.
3. Paying extra to expedite a passport is a possibility to assure getting it in a timely manner. Given the government's response time for passports this can sometimes be a prudent plan of action.
   

MEDICO, as well as all international organizations serving outside the US has been confronted with rules and regulations that have made traveling a bit more complicated. These rules and regulations are not insurmountable obstacles but are merely policies that ensure the safety of those traveling. In order to provide the smoothest effort in travel, please be sure to follow our MEDICO guidelines. If you have any questions please be sure and give our Director of Volunteers a call at 512-930-1893.