USCIS Interagency Strategy for Promoting Naturalization

As of May 21, 2021, U.S. citizens will be able to use their expired U.S. passports to return to the United States through December 31, 2021.

Travelers qualify for this exception if all the following are true:

• They are a U.S. citizen.

• They are currently abroad seeking to return to the United States.

• They are flying directly to the United States, a United States territory, or have only short-term transit (connecting flight) through a foreign country on their return to the United States or to a United States territory.

• Their expired passport was originally valid for 10 years. Or, if they were 15 years of age or under when the passport was issued, their expired passport was originally valid for 5 years.

• Their expired passport is undamaged and in their possession.

Read more, please DOS click here: https://www.state.gov/return-travel-on-recently-expired-u-s-passports/

AILA information: https://www.aila.org/infonet/cbp-issues-guidance-carrier-liaison-program

If you should have any questions or need more information about the ways in which the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Laws may impact you, your family, your friends or your colleagues, please contact the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Lawyers at the NPZ Law Group – VISASERVE – U.S. Immigration and Nationality Lawyers by e-mailing us at info@visaserve.com or by calling us at 201-670-0006 (x104). You can also visit our Law Firm’s website at www.visaserve.com