{"id":140236,"date":"2026-05-08T07:02:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/us-to-revoke-passports-of-parents-with-child-support-debt\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T07:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:02:46","slug":"us-to-revoke-passports-of-parents-with-child-support-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/us-to-revoke-passports-of-parents-with-child-support-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"US to revoke passports of parents with child support debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The US State Department has said it will start to revoke the passports of Americans who owe significant amounts of child support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The department announced that parents who have outstanding debt of more than $2,500 (\u20ac1,844) in child support payments could be impacted, but would be targeting those \u201csignificant outstanding\u201d debt.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department said it is using \u201ccommonsense tools to support American families and strengthen compliance\u201d with US laws in an approach it said would enforce parents\u2019 \u201clegal and moral obligations to their children\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Those with such debt were advised to arrange payment to relevant state agencies to prevent passport revocation.<\/p>\n<p>Once a passport has been revoked, it will no longer be able to be used for travel. Those whose passports are revoked won\u2019t be eligible for a new one until their child support debt has been paid, the State Department said.<\/p>\n<p>US to revoke passports of parents with child support debt<\/p>\n<p>The US State Department has said it will start to revoke the passports of Americans who owe significant amounts of child support.<\/p>\n<p>The department announced that parents who have outstanding debt of more than $2,500 (\u20ac1,844) in child support payments could be impacted, but would be targeting those \u201csignificant outstanding\u201d debt.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department said it is using \u201ccommonsense tools to support American families and strengthen compliance\u201d with US laws in an approach it said would enforce parents\u2019 \u201clegal and moral obligations to their children\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Those with such debt were advised to arrange payment to relevant state agencies to prevent passport revocation.<\/p>\n<p>Once a passport has been revoked, it will no longer be able to be used for travel. Those whose passports are revoked won\u2019t be eligible for a new one until their child support debt has been paid, the State Department said.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/us-to-revoke-passports-of-parents-with-child-support-debt\/\">US to revoke passports of parents with child support debt<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US State Department has said it will start to revoke the passports of Americans who owe significant amounts of child support. The department announced that parents who have outstanding debt of more than $2,500 (\u20ac1,844) in child support payments could be impacted, but would be targeting those \u201csignificant outstanding\u201d debt. The State Department said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}