Travel Tips and Passport Information

What is the Passport Denial Program?

What is the Passport Denial Program, and could it keep you from getting your passport?

The Passport Denial Program was set up to prevent parents who owe child support from being able to get a passport and leave the country.  Although it doesn’t say so on the passport application form, all passport applications are checked against a list of people who owe more than $2,500 in child support.

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Connecticut Congressman Helps 86-Year-Old Get Passport Service

Usually, getting passport service is a fairly straightforward process. You fill out a passport application at a passport acceptance facility (often a post office, library, or County Clerk’s office) and provide them with the following documents to send to the Department of State along with your application:

However, for 86-year-old Katherine Young, getting passport service wasn’t that easy.

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Get a Fast Passport and Ring in the New Year In Sydney

There’s something satisfying about being first at something, don’t you think?  If you’d like to cross the finish line into 2010 first, before most of the world’s population, consider catching a plane to Australia to catch the New Year’s bash in Sydney, which bills itself as the New Year’s capital of the world.

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