Transcript (en)

Starting next year, Americans will be able to apply for their first passport entirely online. Let me show you how easy it is. You would ask, how do I apply for my first passport? And once I'm signed in with login.gov, I can securely see the information that the government already has about me in its system. I don't have to type the same thing over and over and over again. Now the fun part, the photo. You can take a new one of them yourself on the phone. You probably can't use those filters to make you look 50 years younger, but you can take a picture of yourself on the phone in the comfort of your own home, or you can upload one directly from your own device. You're not going any longer to some drugstore to get your picture taken behind a white screen, and this is a really cool feature. You can see your photo in the context of the finished passport, And if you don't like it, and as you probably know, many people don't like it, so you're going to take 150 of these. But eventually you will like one, and you can retake it until it's the perfect shot, the one you like. Now I have to say this may be the most beautiful government checkout I ever seen because I securely logged in through login My name my address they already here I enter my payment securely. So let's check out. And that's it. There, your payment is complete. My first application. No printing forms, no drugstore hostage photo, no appointment, no line, no middleman that you're paying to do something that should be available to you. You tell America.gov what you're trying to do and it walks you through every single step and tells you exactly what comes next. And then there's this. Real time status. So for years you could track any delivery, a pizza, whatever, more precisely than you You can track where your passport is in the mail. Not anymore. We have an estimated delivery date, so you know it's coming. And by the end of 2027, our goal is for the vast majority of Americans to be able to apply for a passport or a passport card on America.gov. Because the point of all of this we're doing here today, and this is simple, make the process more accessible and easier.