"Renew Your Passport Now," State Department Urges

The New York Times recently put out a warning from the State Department to would-be travelers in 2016 to renew your passport quickly if it expires in 2016.

Due to the amount of renewals in 2006-7 that required travelers to get passports for the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative the State Department is preparing for as large of a backlog of people needing passports as it did a decade ago.

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