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State Dept reopens 11 passport services sites, confronts million-case backlog

The State Department has reopened several passport service offices across the country as part of its Phase One reopening plan and is scaling up its workforce to deal with a backlog of applications that have piled up since March.

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State Dept reopens 11 passport services sites, confronts million-case backlog

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