{"id":73209,"date":"2026-05-07T17:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/us-state-department-to-start-revoking-passports-of-parents-who-owe-child-support\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:56:11","slug":"us-state-department-to-start-revoking-passports-of-parents-who-owe-child-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/us-state-department-to-start-revoking-passports-of-parents-who-owe-child-support\/","title":{"rendered":"US state department to start revoking passports of parents who owe child support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Revocations will start on Friday for those who owe $100,000 or more, and then expand to those who owe $2,500 or more<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US state department will begin revoking the US passports of thousands of parents who owe a significant amount of unpaid child support.<\/p>\n<p>The department told the Associated Press on Thursday that the revocations would begin on Friday and be focused on those who owe $100,000 or more. That would apply to about 2,700 American passport holders, according to figures supplied to the state department by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/07\/state-department-passport-revocations-child-support\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revocations will start on Friday for those who owe $100,000 or more, and then expand to those who owe $2,500 or more Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email The US state department will begin revoking the US passports of thousands of parents who owe a significant amount of unpaid child support. The &#8230; <a title=\"US state department to start revoking passports of parents who owe child support\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/us-state-department-to-start-revoking-passports-of-parents-who-owe-child-support\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US state department to start revoking passports of parents who owe child support\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}