| UPDATE: Beginning January 31, 2008, the United States
will no longer allow oral declarations of citizenship
at the border of Canada and Mexico. U.S. Citizens ages
19 and older need to possess documentation that proves
both identify and citizenship. For a list of acceptable
documentation please visit: http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/travel/vacation/ready_set_go/land_travel/chnge_in_proced.xml.
You will not need a passport to travel to Canada by
car until June1, 2009.
For more updated information on traveling under the
Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) please visit
the State Department's website at:
http://www.travel.state.gov/travel/cbpmc/cbpmc_2223.html.
UPDATE: Regular service for applications is currently
taking 4 weeks and expedited service is taking about
3 weeks. To check the status of your passport, please
visit:
http://www.travel.state.gov/passport/get/status/status_2567.html.
If you live in the Fourth Congressional District and
are traveling within the next 2 weeks and need assistance
getting your passport processed, please fill out our
online casework request
form. One of my constituent services representatives
will contact you as soon as possible.
You may also be interested to know I wrote to the State
Department to ask that it update the processing times
on its website and work to address this challenge quickly.
Click here to read the letter.
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