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Google Wallet will let you digitize your US passport - and here's how to make one


Google aims to make traveling this holiday easy with digital passports on its Wallet app; however these passes only work in a few locations.

Jaque Silva/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesAs part of a new beta test, Google Wallet will soon allow American users to create a digital ID of their US passport. Google states that digital passports can save people "time and stress at the airport when… traveling domestically." Also if you're in a situation where you don't have access to your phone, users can check out their passes over at the Google Wallet website.

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