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will be competing in tokyo. lester tom llamas, thank you. if you re traveling internationally any time soon, there is something you need to know about a major backlog on passport renewals it s more fallout from the pandemic here is tom cost reporter: amid the post pandemic travel boom, a major hang-up could keep many travellers grounded. the state department now says it s taking three to four months to process americans applications for new passports. i put it in for renewal and still pending. so nothing back yet. haven t seen anything in over 45 days. reporter: the problem, many americans let their passports expire during the pandemic. now passport offices are swamped with two million renewal applications and slowly processing more as government offices reopen from covid restrictions we certainly expect to be able to do more of that as conditions here in this country continue to improve. reporter: expedited application processing can still take 12 weeks by mail.