During the busy summer travel season, the Department of State’s Consular Consolidated Database has crashed. This database is responsible for supporting the Department of State’s efforts to verify information in passports and visa requests. The Department of State has reported that unspecified glitches in the database have resulted in “significant performance issues, including outages in the processing of applications for passports, visas, and reports of Americans born abroad.” The problem exists throughout the world and in all categories of applications. The issues caused by this glitch have resulted in a backlog of applications. One report stated that an unspecified country had close to 50,000 applicants who were experiencing delays. While the Department of State is working to rectify this problem, the Hammond Law Group suggests that individuals who have not made travel plans avoid going abroad for visa stamping interviews until this backlog has eased.