Salt Lake City will get a permanent passport office, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Tuesday.
The closest passport office to Salt Lake is currently 500 miles away in Denver, but after a concerted effort by Sen. Mitt Romney and other members of Utah’s congressional delegation, an office will soon be open in Utah.
Romney released a statement after the announcement saying he and his team had worked for more than three years to bring a passport agency to Utah…