The Henley Passport Index 2025 reveals significant shifts in passport power worldwide. Singapore emerges as the undisputed leader, while the United States experiences a notable drop in the rankings, ...

Reading from notes she wrote, Schafer told followers that the Bureau of Consular Affairs, which operates under the U.S. State Department, had frozen passport applications requesting gender marker ...

The day after President Donald Trump returned to office, Lisa Suhay took her 21-year-old daughter, Mellow, to a passport office ... transgender people in the U.S. as the federal government ...

The Department of Transportation has announced a (second) beta release of its online passport renewal program, which means eligible U.S. citizens can renew their passports online. Before you begin ...

Immediately, the U.S. State Department began to issue passports only "with a male or female sex marker that matches the applicant's biological sex," the agency told USA TODAY in an email.

(If your U.S. passport is set to expire soon, here's the easiest way to renew it.) To adequately prepare and know what to expect when getting a passport for kids, read on for step-by-step ...