My U.S. Passport is scheduled to expire in January 2014 and I’m planning on a trip out of the country in the next month or so and was planning on renewing it after that. In the meantime, I would like to sign up for level 3 to gain access to the material, list myself as a level 3 candidate, etc. Is there any way to get around this?
you can register with your current passport
and later update the passport last 4 digits before you print your exam ticket.
I had this problem with L2. You can register with your current passport, what happens is CFAI tells you that your passport will be expiring as you are signing up.
Once you get your new passport number, you have to file a change of ID form with CFAI 1 month before exam time (obviously the sooner, the better). You have to email a signed copy of that together with a scan of your new passport.
Thanks Guys
I’ll try again, I got a warning saying I needed a current passport to sign up, but it may just let me keep going.
FYI I got it to work, just had to click past the warning. Thanks Again everone.
I have the same situation, passport expires in January. No problem to register, just accept the warning, don’t forget to renew the passport and make sure to update your passport data with CFA. Complete this at least a month or two before the exam.
MAKE SURE YOU UPDATE YOUR PASSPORT WHEN YOU GET IT.
I didn’t update mine until I printed out my ticket 4 days before the exam. I just about lost my f*cking mind when I realized it was old.
Thankfully the CFA plans for this and have people ready to fix it the week before the exam hits.
That’s cutting it awful close! CFAI warns in its emails that if you submit your ID change within three or four weeks of exam time they don’t guarantee that you will have the change adjusted on time for the exam, and they will not admit you if you have an expired passport (or if they accidentally let you sit for the exam and find out during ID checks, you may have the results voided - reasoning is you could have given someone your old expired passport and have them take the exam for you).
I find this to be completely flawed reasoning. One could give the new current passport to someone and have them take the exam for him/her as well
They have always been very good about this from my experience. I changed mine very easily. I also tend to change my test centres at the last minute and they are usually good about that too.
The idea likely is that you can have your old expired passport manipulated (put in a new picture) more easily than your new one. Besides, officially once a passport expires it is no longer a valid identification document.
Maybe, but I’d never want to tempt fate and do things at the last minute. Last thing you need to be stressing over.