Hot docs: US passport delays mount amid post-Covid travel surge
New York (AFP) - Nile Khow was in a rush to renew his US passport ahead of a trip overseas, but the passport office in his hometown of Houston was severely backlogged. So the 20-year-old flew across the country to New York, where his father had managed to book an appointment at a local passport agency. "I don't know how he did it," the young man said one recent morning in Manhattan, after he submitted his documents in time to catch a flight to London the same evening. With passport facilities across the United States overloaded due to a post-pandemic tourism rush and a faltering new software s...