A new passport agency has opened in El Paso, Texas, that will end the need for nearby residents to travel hours away just to get a passport.<\/p>\n
Previously, if El Paso residents needed to quickly obtain a passport for urgent travel plans, they would need to trek 750 miles to Houston or 300 miles to Tucson. Now, with $2.1 million provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, an El Paso Passport Agency has been opened in the historic Anson Mills Building, just a few blocks away from the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the first time, we will have a facility that will not only process applications but also produce and issue passports on- site right here in El Paso,\u201d said Vincent Perez, spokesman for U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, in an interview with the El Paso Times. Perez said that El Pasoans previously had to overnight their applications across the state (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new passport agency has opened in El Paso, Texas, that will end the need for nearby residents to travel hours away just to get a passport. Previously, if El Paso residents needed to quickly obtain a passport for urgent…<\/span><\/p>\n