passports

NY House GOP pressuring State Department to unclog 'completely unacceptable' US passport backlog

House Republicans are pressuring the 🌃State Department to clean up massive passport delays forcing New Yorkers to miss important trips -- like their honeymoons --♉ and costing thousands of dollars. 

I was charged $1,000 in Bali beca꧒use my passport was dirty

Monique Sutherland and her 60-year-old mother were j🅷etting off to Bali f༒or a “much needed” holiday when the 28-year-old was pulled aside by airport staff over the state of her...

State Dept. struggles with 500K weekly passports𒆙 applications due to post-COVID travel, staꦉff shortages 

Trying to get a passport so you can finally take that overseas trip you've sought for so long? Bad ꦯnews, friend - it looks like 2023 might not be your...

ꦍ  Your heartbeat instead of a passport -- experts predict travel in 2070 🦋

 Staying in underwater hotels, having your own personal holographic concierge, a🦄nd even using your heartbeat instead of a passport – travel is predicted to look extremely diff📖erent in 2070. European...

Students stranded afte﷽r hotel accidentally shreds 42 passports 💟

Dozens of British students on aꦜ trip to the US were left stranded in the country after their hotel mistakenly shredde🤡d their passports. 

'Flight risk' George Santos should have passport revoked: LI lawmaker

County Legislator Joshua ♓Lafazan, 28, called Santos "without exaggeration ... the biggest fraud in modern American politics" during a news conference at LaGuardia Airport.

💫 I went to get my passport photo taken and got handed scissors instead 

ﷺ TikTok user Maddy Breteche-Lo said she went to crazy lengths to get her passport photo taken in Malaysia — by severely altering her l꧑ook.

State Depa🌠rtment will soon allow ‘X’ passport gender markers

 The “X” gender m▨arker would identify passport holders who have an “unspecified or another gender identity," Secretary of State Antony Bl💯inken said in a statement.

US iss🌱ues first passport with ‘X’ gender designation

The US has issued its first-ever passport with an “X” gender designation -- in what advocates have praised as a historic win for nౠon-binary, intersex and gender-nonconforming people.

Kabul chaos: Afghans 🌺flock to passport office as Taliban allows travel

Office ch🌃ief Alam Gul Haqqani told reporters on October 5, 2021 that up to 6,000 passports would 🐟be issued daily.

 Fears🎶 of passport fraud complicate Afghanistan evacuation: Report 🌠

There had been multiple incidents in which Afgh💮ans showed United States passports that did not belong to them, according to NBC News.

State Dept. downplays reports of Taliban blockꦛing Kabul airport access

The State Department's top spokesman insisted Friday that US officials had only received "a small number of reports" that the Taliban are blocking Americans in Afghanistan from reaching Kabul's🦹 international...

'Closer to dictatorship': Joe Rogan rips idea of US vaccine passports

Jo🐟e Rogan singled out CNN host Don Lemon for "openly" talking about a future where only the vaccinated have the freedom to "do what they want" and go "wherever the...

Schumer wants 'emergency personnel' to speed up US passports and visas

A pandemic passporꦬt backlog is causing New Yorkers to cancel honeymoons, skip vacations, miss family celebrations and nix business trips, Sen. Chuck Schumer said Sunday.

Need a passport? Travelers find they need to w🐲ait — and wait some more — for a slot

The State Department is still operating under some COVID-🔴19 staffing restrictions.

 🌌 UK☂ vaccine passport plans to be scrapped

Britain plans to drop COVID-19 passpওorts as a legal requirement for large events, The Daily Telegraph reported on Sunday.

 Governor bans vaccine passports for Montana 🐈

HELENA, Mont. — Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte has issued an executive order banning the development or use of vaccine passpor🦩ts in Montana. Vaccine passports are documents that could be used...

GOP House leader blasts vaccine passports as more fitting for 'Communist China'

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is blasting the idea of COVID vaccine passports, saying they are more fitting for "Communist 🌞China," not the US.  McCarthy (R-Calif.) reflected the growing opposition to...

Here are the states planning to use COVID vax passports — and the ones that won't

🤪 The use of so-called COVID-19 “vaccine passports” is quickly becoming a divisive issue across the US – with several states, including New York, embracing the idea, while others have alr𝄹eady...

 Dr. Drew slammed on Twitter for tweet aಞbout COVID vaccine pas🔴sports

Dr. Drew Pinsky&nbℱsp;got slammed on social media Monday for injecting😼 his opinion that COVID passports "strip" people of their freedom to travel. The celebrity doctor, 62, argued it would be...