Gender-neutral passports, which have an "X" sex marker instead of an "F" or "M," became available in the United States in 2022. Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed the State Department on ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has directed the State Department to freeze applications in the passport pipeline with “X” selected as the gender identifier, according to internal communication ...

A new batch of Passport Acceptance Fairs are taking place across the country through November. Mehroz Kapadia/Travel + Leisure The State Department is continuing to host passport fairs around the ...

The program will begin by accepting a small number of online applications daily. The State Department has launched a beta program for passport renewal applications that will be open to the public, ...

The U.S. State Department has announced it will halt the processing of all passport applications that seek to change sex markers or request an “X” sex marker. The decision follows a directive issued ...

Americans can now renew their passports online, following the official launch of the U.S. Department of State's online renewal system on Wednesday. The department, which had initially tested the ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed the State Department on Wednesday to suspend all passport applications seeking to change a sex marker and all applications requesting an “X” sex marker, ...

The freeze was noted in an internal communication reviewed by ABC News. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has directed the State Department to freeze applications in the passport pipeline with “X” ...

The State Department has suspended processing passport applications seeking the gender marker of “X” and will only process and issue passports for people identifying as male or female, according to a ...