Posted on 05/08/2026 1:53:07 PM PDT by Libloather
WASHINGTON (TNND) — The State Department announced that it will revoke the passports of parents who owe more than $2,500 in child support payments.
"Any American with significant child support debt should arrange payment to the relevant state or states now to prevent passport revocation," the State Department's spokesperson said in a statement Thursday.
"Once a passport is revoked, it may no longer be used for travel. Eligibility for a new passport will only be restored after child support debt is paid to the relevant state child support enforcement agency and the individual is no longer delinquent according to [Health and Human Services Department] records."
The basis for the passport condition is the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996, which allows the secretary of state to revoke or limit passports from people with significant child support debt, The Hill reported.
HHS told The Associated Press on Thursday that the passport revocations would begin Friday and target those who owe $100,000 or more, which would be about 2,700 Americans.
It is unclear how many passport holders owe more than $2,500 because HHS is still collecting data from state agencies, but officials said that it could include many more thousands of people.
Until the State Department's announcement, only people who applied to renew their passports were subject to the penalty for unpaid child support. Pursuant to the new policy, HHS will inform the State Department of all past-due payments of more than $2,500.
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Suppose the parent needs to go overseas to take a lucrative job that he couldn’t get in America and would enable him to catch up on all child support payments?
I met a poor guy who was married and had 4 kids. He had a good job and made a fare wage. His job required overtime and he worked his but off. Wife divorced him and screwed him royally through the courts. She lives like a queen and he suffers through life in a small apartment. He still works the same job putting in punishing hours of overtime to try to stay afloat. No wonder young men want nothing to do with marriage.
Out of control government is out of control.
“ Hunter Biden, call your office.”
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Hunter says “dindu nuffin”.
Well, there goes Thanksgiving for the families of Congress in St. Barts.
A woman can kill an unborn child to remove her parental responsibility but the father can't remove his financial responsibility by any means. A woman can terminate the life of the child she doesn't want to continue carrying without the father having any say. Why should a woman then have any say when a man doesn't want to pay for a child he doesn't want?
If a man can't pay child support, he's thrown in prison. If a woman can't pay child support the government forces taxpayers to give her money, housing, and even transportation.
The state forces men to pay child support with zero confirmation that the money is being spent on the child.
A woman can lie about paternity of a child without fear of being charged for paternity fraud and the state can even force the cucked father to continue paying for a child PROVEN to not be his.
Whew, I’m safe. I don’t have a passport. Oh wait, I’m also a responsible husband and father and don’t owe any child support. Double safe
Which is why the West is going to collapse.
I thought it was going to collapse due to big government.
$hit! I think I got laid more than most married folk. No proof and in the single life it’s feast or famine, mostly the latter. I have no answer.
What’s next, Debtor’s prisons?
This is by design. That illegal alien invader with illegitimate kids? He's not traveling with a passport.
I had clients who got divorced while working overseas in the oilfield. That is very hard on marriages. Child support is based on demonstrated earning ability, so it assumes that income will continue. I never saw it personally, but I heard other attorneys refer to clients who tried work in the US, but never got their child support reduced.
When threatened with contempt for not making payments that required an overseas job, they found their passports had been suspended, and they could not get a job overseas.
What part of “child support” do you not understand.
Deadbeat parents are already restricted on driver’s license, hunting license, and fishing license renewals in addition to passport renewals.
I’m tired of my tax dollars supporting children of deadbeat parents. You’ll get no support from me on your crusade to support the deadbeat parents.
It’s no wonder the State finds new and innovative ways to enforce Child Support.
Higher amounts collected means more revenue for the state which means more welfare (SNAP and TANF) for single mothers which means more incentives for the state to break down and dissolve marriages which further grows the socialist welfare state.
The government should have no business at all collecting and enforcing child support.
I’m tired of my tax dollars supporting children of deadbeat parents.
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That should be solved by repealing the law that forces you to do so.
Non-payment of child support used to get folks weekends in jail in south Georgia. They got out during the week to work a job, but no Saturday nights out on the town, only the entertainment available at the county farm.
Not sure what you are suggesting here. Abolish federal income tax? I'm on board with that.
Or are you just saying let the little bastards (most of them are, some are not) starve?
Passports have never been a right.
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