So how does Manafort have three passports?

[question everything]

With all the "anti-terrorists" checks that we are supposed to have, how can this happen? Will someone try to investigate it?

[Twitler]

1. Connections at the State Dept

That is the only way.

[question everything]

2. Hope that this is the current State Dept

and not the previous one. I don't think that it was reported when they were issued.

And.. welcome to DU!

[Twitler]

5. Thanks!

Well, it was either connections, or incompetence. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/11/manafort-has-3-u-s-passports-and-used-fake-name-to-travel.html This says he filed ten times. Who is monitoring passport applications?

[pnwmom]

3. I have read in several places that it was legal.

Something about needing more than one passport because some countries won't allow you in if you have visa stamps from certain other countries. And the third one was requested during a time when he'd supposedly lost a passport -- and then he found it again.

That's the story now, anyway.

[Nac Mac Feegle]

4. You're assuming something

That they're all U.S. passports in his name.

They may be from different countries and/or different names.

Which ups the "Flight Risk" possibility.

Money can buy a lot of things.

[question everything]

6. Yes, they are all U.S. passport. And his explanation

Manafort had one passport for travel and a second one “to submit with visa applications to certain foreign countries,” according to his lawyers, Kevin Downing and Thomas Zehnle. He lost the first passport and obtained a third one before finding the original one months later, at which point he told the State Department about his discovery.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-04/manafort-offers-8-million-in-property-as-collateral-for-liberty

[MLAA]

7. Having 2 US passports in the same name is not unusual per business reasons stated.

I lived and worked in Asia and Europe for 5 years. Having 2 is not unusual. I have not known anyone to have 3.

[cemaphonic]

9. Yeah, my Dad had 3 when he worked overseas.

One regular tourist passport, and 2 diplomatic ones. He had regular travel to the Middle East, so he used one passport for Israel, and the other one for the rest of the countries

[customerserviceguy]

8. The official explanation from him is

He had a second one to send in to get visas for difficult to enter countries. The third one came about because he says he lost his original one, then found it later.

Not excusing him, but that's what the story is.

[treestar]

10. You can get another one even if the previous one

is not expiring. Some people travel so much that the pages are all taken with entry/exit stamps.

[question everything]

11. I now have 3 passports. Two that expired and I am not sure what to do with them

or even how to dispose of them. One that was issued in 1995, one in 2005 and my current one issued in 2016.

The older ones, that were returned to me, have puncture holes in the cover.

[treestar]

13. same here

I just koind of keep the old ones

[MoonRiver]

14. I think you're supposed to return the old ones.

My husband and I have had multiple expired passports. We turned the old ones in when we got new, non-expired, ones, at least according to my memory.

[Liberal In Texas]

17. I have several expired passports.

When I renew I send the old one in and they return it after processing, then I get the new one. They never ask for them to be returned.
I only keep them as a kind of souvenir and groan as I see how my photo has changed over time.

[MoonRiver]

18. IDK, my husband has always handled that.

I hear you about the changing photos, ugh. Same with the driver's license.

[obamanut2012]

12. I have two

One isn't even a US one. Totally legal.

[Calista241]

15. People usually have 2 primarily if they have traveled or will travel to Israel

Several MIddle Eastern countries will not allow entry if you have an Israeli stamp in your passport. In those cases, people get 2 passports, one for travel to Israel and 1 for all other travel.

There could be other countries with similar no entry policies, just the most common one I’ve heard of is Israel.

I’ve never lost a passport either, but I suppose it has happened.

[GreenEyedLefty]

16. Isn't he also registered to vote in multiple places?