The United States’ latest government shutdown has been ongoing for around a month, but those applying for passports don’t ...

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

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 ...

Renewing your passport online doesn't mean that you'll receive it any sooner than usual, though. The State Department is sticking to its " routine service " for passport renewals, whether they're ...

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 ...

(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 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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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