ATTENTION: Eligible family members and DoD civilians on official travel to Germany, Japan and the Republic of Korea must have either a 1. Special Issuance Passport or, 2. As a temporary exception, a regular (blue tourist) passport and memorandum from a DoD passport agent stating the SIP application was submitted prior to departing from the point of origin. The memorandum must include the following information: Each applicant’s full name, date of SIP submission, country of travel for PCS/TDY/TAD, and DoD VPAS ID. For a limited time, boarding a flight while on official travel status with a regular passport is permissible only with the this exception memo. NOTE: This temporary exception—allowing official travel on a regular passport with exception memo (in lieu of a SIP)—will expire on Sept. 30, 2021. Effective Oct. 1, 2021, official travel must be conducted with a SIP. For more information, review the country-specific Foreign Clearance Guide at https://www.fcg.pentagon.mil/ or contact your unit-level passport office.

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