The State Department is reporting an unprecedented 500,000 passport renewal applications each week due to a post-pandemic surge of Americans looking to travel internationally. NBC News’ Tom Costello shares more on the backlog.
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Passport bros…
Start working OT
Right after they made it harder for asylum seekers to leave America for Canada?
Maybe it's my overactive pattern recognition, but they'd better fix this passport problem soon.
Although, there's that antibiotic resistant yeast infection flaring up all over the place, travel might get shut down again anyway.
Scamdemic
Yeah right. We all know it's due to passport wives. Men are leaving to find women elsewhere. I am sure if you do a survey it will show 99.9% are men.
Took me 10 months to get it
Surge, but the news told me Americans are hurting for extra free funds. Maybe credit
Understand this is government at its finest. An increase in requests only interferes with breaks and sensitivity classes. Do you want to travel? Go to Chicago. Always needing bodies.
And descendants of enslaved people like me and the United States are going back to Africa and Ghana a lot of us are getting passports
I renewed mine in London. Took two weeks.
Passport Bros know the real reason for the delay 🤫…🛩️🏝️
This anchor has a really nice voice👍🏼 (no mahu 😂)
Raise the prices of everything. People are seemingly complaining about inflation, YET they can afford to take extravagant costly trips abroad. Sounds like a bunch of either propaganda or LIES which one is it?
When was the last time they didn't take forever to process that renewal?
Our economy must be really booming with all these international vacations and trips.
I love how they're saying the backlog is because of post-pandemic travel increases, but we issued 22 million passports last year with zero issue and have already met that number this year (in March). The backlog is caused by people trying to get OUT of America, not post-pandemic travel. Pay attention.
You renew them every 10 years and every time there’s a backlog. What’s new? You should know that an American passport takes more than 3 months to arrive.
Just got mine in the mail, paid the expedite fee and it only took a few weeks, don't know what they are on about
What about new passports?