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literally just happened today. my mother, brother, sister and i were all planning to go to kenya for a giant vacation. it was the death anniversary of my grandma, and since my mom had not been there in 20 years, she decided that she wanted to go and show us where she was raised. 

we are a pretty low income family due to my mom having a brain tumour a few years ago that still exhibits problems for her and all 3 of us kids going to school, so only work is part time for myself and my brother (sister was too young). due to this, we saved up as much as we could, and even though it hurt us a lot financially, we bought the tickets 6 months ago using a travel agent for a total cost of $6000. 

since it was with a travel agent, we thought it was a done deal. he sent us the ticket and travel itinerary, and said everything was good to go. we soon learned however, that this was wrong. but that's to come later on.

anyway, due to us thinking that it was a done deal. we called up our family in kenya and told them that we would finally be coming to visit them. this had them excited, especially my uncle, who is fairly wealthy, and decided that he wanted to make this trip worthwhile. knowing that we couldn't afford anything special, he decided to pitch in to make our trip something we would never forget. a $20,000 dollar event itinerary filled with a personal driver, 4 days at a safari, 5 star hotels, scuba-diving, and more. it was one if those dream vacations that you could not wait for. it would have been great.

fast forward to today. where we had finished buying luggages and packing them, had arranged accommodation for our dog, and had put valuables in secure areas. it was a 3 week trip that was supposed to end on january 6, 2018. remember this date folks.

we take an hour ride through traffic, and finally arrive at the airport at 3:30, with the flight leaving around 6. we have everything ready and with us, and we were feeling really good. we go up to the lufthansa baggage check in and wait. around 4, it's finally our turn. we go with the right amount of suitcases, show them our ticket, and then finally give in our passports to be scanned. everything looks good... and then here's where it started to crumble.

remember how i said that the return date was january 6th. well lufthansa just then tells us that they can't let us on the trip because to go to kenya our passport should be valid for 6 months after the end of the trip. our passports however, expired on the 4th of june. 2 fucking days difference. this comes as a blow to my mom, and after going through confusion, she starts going through panic. she asks them what we can do. and they say that there's an emergency passport place that can do it in an hour.... but they close at 4:30 and it was already around 4:15 by then and it was half an hour drive. not possible.

my mom goes back to the lufthansa desk and asks them if there is anything else they can please do to help, is there a way to reschedule from the desk so we can go in within the next 2 days to try and get the renewed passport. they say they can't do anything. she asks for what to do with the travel agent, they say that she better leave or else they will call the police on her.

we leave the desk and we go to sit down and call the agent. we ask him to call the head of service and to try and change the flight date, they tell him that the only thing we can do is to cancel the flight and rebook.... and of course, they'll still keep about $2000 from the $6000. we try to get him to see if they can exchange (because we knew the price for a new one would be unaffordable), but he didn't do shit and just did the cancellation. never going to hire him again ever.

my mom starts to break down. but i try my best to make her feel a better. "how could i be so stupid, why didn't i do it" and "why didn't he warn us. i shouldn't have ever picked him to book our flight" really started to break my heart. but i told her to keep her head strong, we will get through it. we immediately get home and go to get passport photos done, grab renewal forms, and get referrals and what not and have the paperwork ready to go early morning tomorrow (technically today at the time of typing) at 8 am to hopefully be ready the end of tomorrow with the urgent renewal running about $1000 in total. if the ticket is affordable enough now, we would be able to do it, it would just mean that we would have to be living pretty broke for the next few months.

 all we need now, is to see the ticket prices. we go online and my mom starts to cry. we check all the websites, the lowest price is $12,000. double that of what we paid. and way out of our price range due to all the things we had paid for before hand (even worse, the "refund" from lufthansa would take approximately 4 weeks to arrive. we won't be able to afford it, unless we go afterwards. but doing that would mean that the amazing event that my uncle set up would go down the drain. we had to go to our last resort. 

my mom had to call my uncle, and ask for help. we tell him that they wouldn't let us on the flight... and he starts fucking raging. he is so pissed and it's understandable. he would lose his $20,000 that he spent  just for us since it was all booked and paid for already. after though, my mom starts to pretty much beg him to help us find a flight, but he says that he can't spend over $12,000 more for us, especially with that $12,000 being on the line with us actually getting a renewed passport tomorrow. we beg him to please do it, and he angrily says he will see and will call by 1 if he has a flight (we need a travel itinerary to show the passport office in order for them to renew it in 1 day).

it's almost 2 now, and there's no call. i'm sitting in bed here depressed while typing this (which is probably why there where mistakes in the text. i'm to sad to think properly). meanwhile my mom is crying while trying to fall asleep. my mom's biggest dream in years and about $30,000 all pretty much down the drain. and only because our passport was expiring in june 4, 2018 instead of june 6, 2018 on a trip that was ending on january 6, 2018.

tl;dr: we had a giant trip planned to have my mom finally go back home to kenya, had a shitty travel agent who didn't  tell us that our passport was 2 days under the 6 months validity after the trip, and now my mom is crying and our uncle who payed the $20,000 event itinerary hates us.

*edit: holy shit. i didn't expect the post to get this much attention. anyway, i realized that there where some errors so i'm here to fix them. for the discussion about whether it was start or end trip, i honestly can tell you i had no clue. all i do know is that they said two days off and 6 months. so i interpreted it as in they we're counting january in the 6 months since that would make the most sense then. im sorry  if i caused any confusion

also, for those saying that the 6 month thing is everywhere, it is not. they even told us at the gate that if we were only going to frankfurt (the stop over location), it would be 3 months and we would be fine. the 6 months was a thing set by the kenyan government.

i'm going to be looking into the comments a bit more to answer more questions in future edits, while also trying to decide what stuff to do in order to try and see if this trip is still salvageable for my mother.

edit #2: i see a lot of people want me to post proof cause they think i'm lying. it's 4am right now, but ass soon as i get some sleep and it's around 7 i'll post the original ticket that was wasted. 

edit #3: here is the proof as wanted
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edit #4: due to a large amount of people messaging me to warn me, i have decided to remove the proof since it was too risky to have up. sorry folks

edit #5: i've been asked multiple times for an update, and i've been so busy that i couldn't take the time to tell you until now. anyway.... i made it. thank you all sooo much! your invaluable advice made it very easy for me to get a set path of what to do. first off, i fought with the travel agent in order to get my money back. i used some of the advice from this subreddit and you were right, i got back the $6000. then, i went online and found the cheapest flight i could that left in two days, having found one for $12000 (the cheapest). "booked it" and printed  the travel itinerary and went early in the morning to get the emergency passports. we got them on the same day due to showing the itinerary (thank you reddit) and we're ready on that front. 

that was the easy part though, for now, i needed another $6000 in order to pay for the new ticket prices. knowing how badly my mom wanted it, i spent two days where i had to sell my dream computer, nintendo switch, xbox, ps4, ipad, and pretty much everything else i had that was an "entertainment product". my mom's happiness was worth way more than the happiness i got from those items so i thought it was a valuable trade. it's now been the end of the second day (12:00 am as i write this), and the smile on my mom's face seeing as she drives through the town, meets old classmates, and so far has gone swimming in the fishes has been one i had not seen since my dad left us, so i thank every single one of you who showed your support, and also have me advice on what to do. these next 3 weeks are all because of you. 

as an added bit: for all those that offered to give donate and stuff. i thank you so much for caring about my family and our happiness and willing to give us some of your money. however, while i appreciate and will take your support, i could not take your money. i'm not that type of person to have the internet pay for my problems to be fixed. they were my problems, and i had to find a way to fix it. still though, the fact that you cared so much really touched my heart and gave me more motivation to get the trip back on course. thank you all.

TIFU by not properly checking the passport rules of travelling to Kenya, throwing $30,000 dollars down the drain.