Excluding procedural rejections (not submitting the correct documentation, not paying the correct fees, etc.), are there any instances in which a US passport application submitted by a natural-born citizen of the U.S. would be denied?
For example:
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[li]A felony conviction.[/li][li]Outstanding IRS debts.[/li][li]Name appearing on a terrorist watch list.[/li][/ul]
Sure, there’s several reasons. Best to point you to the regulations on denial of passports:
22 CFR 51.6 Hopefully the think isn’t temporary, otherwise you can google the cite and find it easily.
Possible reasons include: defaults on loans from the US Government, arrears on child support payments, outstanding warrants or extradition orders, possibility to “damage” the security or foreign policy of the US, conviction on certain drug charges.
Anecdotally, I’ve heard of a number of cases in which Hispanic children born at home near the U.S./Mexican border, with midwives rather than doctors attending, have been denied passports on the theory that fraud was involved, and they weren’t actually born in the U.S.
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And just because I happened to run into it while looking for something else at work, here’s some information about a class-action lawsuit against the State Department filed on behalf of people who have had U.S. passport applications denied (or not processed at all) because they were born in Texas with midwives attending, and fraud was suspected.