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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Susan Haigh

Libraries ordered to stop processing passport applications

The American Library Association estimates about 1,400 mostly non-profit public libraries nationwide could potentially be affected - (Getty/iStock)

Certain public libraries have been ordered to stop processing passport applications in the United States.

The order by the U.S. State Department disrupts a long-standing service that librarians say their communities have come to rely on. And they say it’s a process that has run smoothly for years.

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