The government shutdown, which started on Oct. 1, continues to drag on. Here's how it's impacting passport applications and ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK -- The U.S. Department of State has shut down its online passport appointment system, saying scammers are using bots to scoop up and resell appointments. This comes as the State Department ...

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: ...

(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, ...

Even if no one suspects wrongdoing, an unauthorized mark can still violate the passport’s terms of issuance. Because ...

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 ...

Robeson was only one of dozens of activists whose passports were seized during the era of McCarthyism. Despite the ...

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, ...

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 ...