WASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) – The State Department will begin revoking the U.S. passports of thousands of parents who owe a significant amount of unpaid child support, the Associated Press reported on Thursday. The revocations would begin on Friday and be focused on those who owe $100,000 or more, or about 2,700 American passport holders, […]
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US to start revoking passports of parents who owe child support, AP reports
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WASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) – The State Department will begin revoking the U.S. passports of thousands of parents who owe a significant amount of unpaid child support, the Associated Press reported on Thursday.
The revocations would begin on Friday and be focused on those who owe $100,000 or more, or about 2,700 American passport holders, the AP reported.
The revocation program will soon be expanded to cover parents who owe more than $2,500 in unpaid child support, which is a threshold set by a little-enforced 1996 law, the AP reported, citing the State Department.
The department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters.
(Reporting by Ismail Shakil and Daphne Psaledakis; editing by Doina Chiacu)