An American passport is a dark blue rough booklet that is a form of identification. A passport can teach you a lot about your identity like your place of birth, date of birth, citizenship etc. They are mostly made out of paper and polycarbonate and other components to ensure security and prevent counterfeiting. The Department of State became the sole authority for issuing passports in the United States in 1856. 
                 Almost everyone in my family has worked  hard to obtain an American passport. An american passport is important to me because growing up my grandma always spoke about how hard her journey was to get to the United States and get her passport along with her 9 kids, eventually everyone was separated. My grandmother wrote multiple petitions to get her kids to the US. After a few years only four of her kids were able to come to the United states, four years later the rest of her kids were able to make it to the United states after multiple petitions, long nights, and a lot of tears cried. My grandmother always said those were the hardest days of her life.                        As I grew older my passport became a symbol of freedom and possibility. It taught me that while borders May separate us and our family, shared experience unites us.  Growing up in a Dominican family, passports weren’t just documents, they were sacred objects. 

– milagros liriano

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