Anyone with an expired passport issued within the past 15 years can use the new system. The State Department says the ...

Check Your Passport Status Online At passportstatus.state.gov, you can check the status of your application at any time (and as often as you’d like).

It’s not possible to check your passport status by email; however, if you need to cancel an appointment at a passport agency or center, you can do so by emailing [email protected].

Despite issuing more than 1.5 million passports each month, the State Dept. said it is still trying to keep up with a glut of passport applications.

The State Department said it is getting about 400,000 passport applications every week following higher-than-normal volumes in January through May that surpassed 500,000 applications a week.

According to Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, “Our online passport renewal system is an important example of how the Department is modernizing government services for the benefit of Americans ...

Joe Biden Some Americans with expired passports can return home, State Department announces State Department says passports that expired on or after Jan. 1, 2021 will be honored until Dec. 31 ...

An earlier version of this article transposed numbers on a form needed to replace a lost passport with the U.S. government. It is the DS-64 form, not the DS-46.