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The State Department says it will begin revoking passports for parents with “significant” child support debt (Eric Paul Zamora\/The Fresno Bee\/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)<\/span> <\/p>

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The State Department will begin revoking U.S. passports for parents with “significant” child support debt, the agency announced Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>

If parents don\u2019t settle their child support obligations before their passport is revoked, they can\u2019t use it for international travel. Here\u2019s the latest:\u00a0<\/p>

Passports revoked for back child support<\/h2>
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What we know:<\/p>

According to the State Department, federal law allows the agency to revoke passports for anyone who owes more than $2,500 in child support.\u00a0<\/p>

The State Department will initially target people who owe $100,000 or more. About 2,700 passport holders fall in that range, officials said. Parents whose passports are taken away can\u2019t get a new one until all the child support debt is paid.\u00a0<\/p>

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Passports could be revoked while the passport holder is abroad, the State Department said. If that happens, the passport holder must visit a U.S. embassy or consulate for an emergency travel document that allows them to return to the United States.<\/p>

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What we don’t know:<\/p>

It\u2019s unclear how many passport holders owe more than $2,500 in child support, but the number could be in the thousands.\u00a0<\/p>

Timeline:<\/p>

The revocations will begin Friday for parents who owe $100,000 or more. The program will expand soon to anyone with more than $2,500 in unpaid child support.\u00a0<\/p>

What they’re saying:<\/p>

“This action supports the welfare of American children by exacting real consequences for child support delinquency under existing federal law,” the State Department said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>

Even before expanding the policy, the department said the program has been a “powerful tool” to get parents to pay what they owed. Since it began in earnest in 1998, states have collected some $657 million in arrears, including more than $156 million in over 24,000 individual lump-sum payments over the past five years.<\/p>

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