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Feb 2, 2012, 6:04 AM

dc2las

Join Date: Mar 2009

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Originally Posted by A320FAN

Part of this could be that your passport may not have been in good condition. Costa Rica requires your passport to be in good condition so that it can be scanned. This is the Costa Rican Entry requirements that were relased in 2011:

They also clearly require 3-6 months validity on the passport depending on the origin. Looking at the Costa Rican Embassy in Washington, DC website, they require 3 months validity for a US Passport. The OP stated it expired 24Mar12. If they were trying to enter Costa Rica after 24Dec11 then the airline did everything appropriately.

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