Category: Travel

As everyone knows by now, the coronavirus pandemic has shutdown the travel industry worldwide. The US Passport issuance authority, the Department of State was similarly affected by the travel shutdown and hasn’t been issuing passports for the past couple months except for emergency purposes. This has led to the biggest backlog in passport applications in the history of the Department of State. We have heard from many people that sent their passport applications in 5 months prior and still haven’t received any passport or any correspondence from the State Department. We anticipate issuance times being 4-6 months for the remainder of the year for any passport application. With travel[…]

We’ve seen them all, so check our list of these common mistakes and we hope to help many of you avoid them. Not Making a photocopy of your Passport When traveling abroad it’s best practice to make photocopies, scanned copies and/or take photos of your passport. Keep physical copies with you when you travel and send scanned copies or photos to your phone, email, or any other device you may travel with frequently. This extra step will help you if your passport is ever stolen or lost overseas, since bringing copies of your passport can help you acquire an emergency passport a bit easier at the US embassy or[…]

Convicted of a felony? The chances are if you are a convicted felon then you will have no issues when applying for a United States Passport. This, of course, pertains to those whom are not currently on parole, probation or considered a flight risk. There are very few and specific reasons that someone would be denied a passport upon their application. Even if you are denied you may reapply or revisit the matter at a later time (a suspended passport application is not yet a rejected application). A citizen would need to qualify for one of several situations in order to be denied their passport application. The most common[…]