{"id":757,"date":"2022-09-18T19:18:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T02:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=757"},"modified":"2022-09-20T18:39:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T01:39:14","slug":"u-s-will-have-online-passport-renewal-available-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2022\/09\/18\/u-s-will-have-online-passport-renewal-available-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. will have online passport renewal available in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. government will join the 21st century and support online passport renewal in 2023:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The shift will eliminate the need for piles of paperwork and hours waiting in lines. But it will still take some time to actually get your hands on your passport.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/16\/travel\/online-passport-renewal.html\">Online Passport Renewal Will Start in Early 2023 &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This caused me to check my passport expiration date. I just realized I held a passport in the 1980s but let it expire and did not get a new one until I was 48 years old. Wow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is how out of touch I am when it comes to all things international and why I am now working to catch up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the mid-1990s, there was a brief time when my employer considered sending a group of us to speak at an international tech conference. The employer eventually decided to send a few managers to give all the talks, to save a lot of money. It occurred to me I probably did not have a valid passport at the time- and was likely the only person in the entire division lacking a passport. Geesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>As I have said in many posts here, today I believe everyone should seek international experiences in life as soon as able. This is the 21st century. Don&#8217;t be like me.<\/em> <em>Don&#8217;t wait for a future that may never come.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passport renewal will join the 21st century, with online services coming in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-regulatory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}