Salt Lake City will be getting a passport agency, allowing travelers to go in person to update or apply for a passport, the U.S. Department of State announced. It's a move Sen. Mitt Romney has been asking the State Department to do for the last three years.
The U.S. State Department has announced that Salt Lake City soon will be getting an in-person passport agency.
Good news for Utahns with pre-travel jitters: A new passport agency is set to open in Salt Lake City — so misplacing your passport before catching your flight will soon be a concern that you can easily write off.that it plans to build six more passport agencies nationwide. Besides Salt Lake City, the new offices will be located in Kansas City, Mo.; Orlando, Fla.; Charlotte, N.C.; San Antonio and Cincinnati.The agencies will provide same-day services to travelers with urgent travel needs.
Previously, the closest passport office from downtown Salt Lake City was eight hours away, in Aurora, Colorado. And without a passport agency, getting a new passport through an acceptance facility takes. So if you had found out just hours before your flight that your son had scribbled all over your passport or that your dog had chewed it away, you were out of luck. But with a new passport agency, not anymore.
Over the years, Romney has followed through with his request by getting a measure passed in September 2022 to check where passport agencies are needed the most, and by sending another letter to Blinken last year about the delays in passport processing., Romney wrote, “for more than three years, my team and I have worked with the State Department to bring a passport agency to Salt Lake City to improve passport services for Utahns.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox expressed his gratitude. “We’re grateful to Senator Romney and the rest of our Congressional delegation for their great work in bringing a passport office to Utah,” Cox said in a statement. “We’re proud of how many Utahns have international experience and language skills. Having in-person passport services will be an important improvement for Utah residents and will enhance Utah’s international reach.
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