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Author Shahnaz Habib next to the cover of her new book, Airplane Mode.

The beauty and entitlement of traveling as a tourist

3:00am August 07, 2024

Summer is a time when many Americans are taking off from work and setting their sights on far-off vacation destinations: tropical beaches, fairy-tale cities, sun-drenched countrysides. But in her book Airplane Mode, the reluctant travel writer Shahnaz Habib warns of recklessly embracing what she calls "passport privilege," — and how that can skew peoples' images of what the world is and who it belongs to.

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You can get your passport renewed online again. Here's how it works

7:36pm June 13, 2024

by Jonathan Franklin

The rollout of online passport renewal is restricted to certain windows, beginning midday Eastern time weekly. Officials say the processing times for renewing online are the same as renewing by mail.

"I'd lost 60 pounds in the years since my passport picture had been taken and I hardly looked like myself," writes author Haroon Moghul. "Each time I approached a border, I feared I'd be denied a visa or, worse, deported."

An Encounter At A Passport Checkpoint Offers Respite From Depression's Grip

10:20am September 27, 2017

by Haroon Moghul

Newly divorced and suffering from depression, author Haroon Moghul moved to Dubai for a while, hoping to find a reason to live. Strangely enough, sharing a laugh over his "fat" passport photo helped.

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Court: State Department Wrongfully Revoked Passport Of American In Yemen

6:50pm February 17, 2016

by Richard Gonzales

A naturalized citizen was stranded for more than a year in war-torn Yemen. The U.S. embassy there says he admitted to identity fraud; the judge says the man was coerced into signing that statement.