Passport praises

When we returned from Honduras my passport gave me some problems. On the front page of my passport it says it is only good for one year as it is a replacement for a passport that has been lost and/or stolen. When we returned to the states from Costa Rica in 2003, I turned the one year passport in with my birth certificate so they could issue me one for 10 years instead of the passport for one year. When the Passport Department returned it they had only stamped void over the explanation of why my passport was only for one year. At the time this didn't make sense to me, so I called them up and the person I talked to assured me that it was now good for 10 years. That was fine when I went to Honduras, but when I came back to the states in June the airline was not going to let me board. But because I am a US citizen and was returning to my country of origin they let me go.

Today I called the Passport Department and they had me tell them what had void stamped on it and they asked me if there was anything else stamped on that page. When I told them no, they had me look through all the other pages for a passport extension. It seems that when they extended mine, they didn't put the extension on the right page so we didn't notice it when I was at the airport in Honduras. When I had called a few years ago they didn't mention an extension typed on another page to me. So I didn't know about it. Now I know that on page 21 is a passport extension. We thought we were going to have to pay another $65 for a new passport again, but everything is all taken care of. PRAISE THE LORD!!!!!