Though the provision was dropped after it faced backlash, the bill initially would have given the State Department the power ...

Getting a passport in time for an international trip can be stressful at the best of times. The government shutdown, which entered its 10th day on Oct. 10 and has impacted a range of federal ...

Special Passport Acceptance Fairs are organized events where U.S. citizens can both apply for a passport for the first time if they have never done so or go through the steps of getting one for a ...

The State Department has launched a beta program for passport renewal applications that will be open to the public, according to senior officials at the department. According to the officials, the ...

Young travelers or those seeking to get a passport for the first time may be able to apply for one during a series of application fairs happening across the United States now through early Fall 2025.

(CNN) — The State Department has suspended processing passport applications seeking the gender marker of “X” and will only process and issue passports for people identifying as male or female, ...

The U.S. Department of State isn't sweating a last-second surge of applications with only four months left before U.S. citizens will be required to have a passport to re-enter the country. Since the ...

The State Department has issued the first U.S. passport with “X” marked for gender. It is unknown who received the passport. In a statement on Wednesday, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said: ...

If you live in Homestead, dealing with passport work just became even easier because the city was designated as a Passport ...

A federal judge in Massachusetts has ordered the State Department to issue passports to six transgender and nonbinary people while litigation continues challenging President Donald Trump’s policy ...

The agency says it's working to return staff to work to deal with a big backlog. A crush of Americans are seeking to travel overseas again as vaccination rates climb in the U.S., and foreign ...

More Americans than ever before are gaining access to international travel with a U.S. passport. According to the Department of State, in 1990, only 5% of U.S. citizens had a passport. As of mid-2024, ...