The best place to put your passport is definitely not the seatback pocket on an overnight flight from Orlando to Paris. Which is exactly where my young son left his. He'd been so insistent on carrying his own passport, and I thought, "Why not? It'll teach him to be responsible.
" But my timing was off. My son, then 11, left his passport on the Air France flight. And of course, once my family had disembarked, they would not let us back on the plane.
How would we get through customs? Passport loss is a big problem for Americans More than 300,000 American passports are lost or stolen every year, according to the U.S. State Department.
"The safety of your passport is paramount," says Raymond Yorke, a spokesman for Redpoint Resolutions , a travel insurance company. That's because you can't cross a border without a passport. The best place for an important document like a passport would be in a vault in your home, but that would defeat the purpose of a passport.
It has to go with you and it has to stay safe. But how? What to do with your passport when you travel Here are a few tricks for keeping your passport safe. Never put your passport in your back pocket "That's one of the worst places for it," says Jeremy Murchland, president of Seven Corners Travel Insurance .
He says many Americans feel they have to carry their passport with them at all times, but it puts them at greater risk of being pickpocketed. Murchland recommends that you leave your passport in your hotel safe. When you.
