The New York Times-20080127-Have a Passport Problem- Fix It at the Airport

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Have a Passport Problem? Fix It at the Airport

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Let's say you've flown from Des Moines to Kennedy International Airport in New York to make a connecting flight to Paris, and then you discover that you've forgotten your passport. Or you've lost it. Or you have it, but you've run out of blank pages.

Starting this month, there will be no need to return to Des Moines -- or to make a last-minute trip to New York City to take care of the matter; an emergency passport help service is now available at Kennedy. Located at the hotel desk on the ground floor of Terminal 4, the service is an annex of www.ItsEasy.com, a New York-based passport and foreign visa expeditor that's open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The company provides same-day service for morning customers and next-day service for afternoon customers. Last-minute passports for first-timers cost $457, and renewals cost $427.