Passport

About 4 months ago, we reported that the State Department was making plans so renewals of U.S. passports could be done electronically. It was said to be part of President…

The U.S. State Department has had a slowdown in processing passports for years now. What used to take just a couple of weeks can now take upwards of 8 to…

In 2015, the State Department enacted a new rule regarding tax debt. It didn’t go into effect until 2018, but ever since, as per www.IRS.gov, if an individual has “seriously…

As of this writing, nearly 3 million Ukrainians have fled their homeland as Russia continues to attempt to overtake the country. The vast majority of the refugees are women and…

If you currently have a passport, you may notice that it contains an electronic chip (which is why it’s called an ePassport). The chip carries the same information that’s printed…

After all that planning and waiting, you’re finally on that trip of your dreams, far away from your home country. You keep your passport handy during your actual travels because…

If you have kids, or know kids, or even just remember back to when you were a kid, you know that, until a certain time, they’re naive and tend to…

You know what documents you need to get on an airplane. For most people in the U.S., you show your driver’s license to the TSA agent at the checkpoint. If…

U.S. travelers were all abuzz mid-last month, when the U.S. government announced that Americans would soon be able to renew their passports online. This was followed up by another announcement…

The U.S. State Department has had a slowdown in processing passports for years now. What used to take just a couple of weeks can now take well over 3 months.…