Illinois DMV services restored after nationwide outage impacting U.S. passport verification, Giannoulias says
A nationwide outage impacted U.S. passport verification and other DMV services in the state on Wednesday morning, according to the Illinois Secretary of State.
Sec. Alexi Giannoulias posted on his official X account that U.S. passport verification was unavailable around 10 a.m.
About an hour later, the Secretary of State's office confirmed DMVs had returned to normal operations, and released the following statement:
"The system failure experienced by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA), which impacted DMVs across the nation earlier today, has been restored. The outage impacted the processing of passports and immigration documents. In Illinois, the Secretary of State's office activated a new system it had implemented earlier this year, enabling a workaround and allowing DMVs statewide to process the documents without disruption or delays."
Details on the nationwide outage were not immediately available.
Giannoulias said anyone going to an Illinois DMV should call 800-252-8980 to check on service impacts.
The Transportation Security Administration said they were not affected by the outage and had no disruptions to report.
