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US online passport renewal is now fully open for business

Routine passport renewals are happening “well under” the estimated window.

By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. If you read my colleague Sean Hollister’s positive experience renewing his US passport online through a beta website from the State Department — without needing to ship his old passport — I have good news for you: that experience is now available for everyone. “Instead of printing a paper application and mailing it with a check, Americans can now renew their passports through a secure process that will save time and effort,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken writes in an announcement about the program.

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