News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Sunday, March 18, 2007

New passport rule creates backlog of applications

The Associated Press

Published: 03.17.2007

CHICAGO - The State Department is wading through a crush of passport applications pouring in at more than 1 million a month.

Passport applications filed between October and March are up 44 percent from the same period a year ago, the department said.

Because of the glut, it could take 10 weeks instead of the usual six to process routine applications, according to the department. Expedited requests, which cost an extra $60 on top of the normal $97 fee, could take four weeks instead of two.

Can't say I didn't warn ya! -mm

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