Programme to be expanded to cover parents who owe more than $2,500 in unpaid child support

Last updated: May 07, 2026 | 23:48

AP

The US State Department will begin revoking the US passports of thousands of parents who owe a significant amount of unpaid child support.

The department told The Associated Press on Thursday that the revocations would begin Friday and be focused on those who owe $100,000 or more. That would apply to about 2,700 American passport holders, according to figures supplied to the State Department by the Department of Health and Human Services.

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The revocation programme, plans for which were first reported by the AP in February, soon will be greatly expanded to cover parents who owe more than $2,500 in unpaid child support — the threshold set by a little-enforced 1996 law, the State Department said.

It was not clear on Thursday how many passport holders owe more than $2,500 because HHS is still…