Posted by Sam Watters on 7/24/05

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To Whom It May Concern:

My name is Sam Watters and I would like to ask a question
about due process and passport revocation.

The State Department says that a person who is US$5,000 or
more in arrears for child support cannot be issued a
passport or have an exisiting passport renewed. I live in
overseas and a passport is vital to my employment.

My situation is that in 1998 the mother of the child I am
financially responsible for remarried and told me that she
no longer wished for my support. I sent a letter to the
F.O.C. stating that I would not be making any further
payments. Obviously this was a giant mistake on my part
but I received no correspondences from the F.O.C. (despite
keeping the same address) and assumed everything was fine.
Three years later (2001) I received a letter from the same
F.O.C. stating that I was in arrears exceeding US$50,000.

Obviously before the debt was $50,000, it was $25,000 and
before that is was $10,000 and even before that it was
$5,000---which is the amount at which a passport is
marked. I am now trying to renew my passport and having
tremendous difficulty.

My question is does the F.O.C.'s waiting until the debt was
well past the legal limit before contacting me violate my
due process? If I had received this information in a
timely manner I could have rectified the situation before
it became so large.

Any information or insights will be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Sam Watters

Re: Passport blacklisting and due process, 7/26/05, by Ozarks Lawyer.

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