State Dept to start rolling out FIFA PASS for foreign soccer fans looking to attend World Cup in US

EXCLUSIVE: The 2026 FIFA World Cup is little than 5 months distant and the State Department is acceptable to rotation retired a strategy for summons holders who request visas.

The State Department volition motorboat the FIFA Priority Appointment Schedule System (FIFA PASS), Fox News Digital learned connected Tuesday. The strategy volition springiness World Cup summons holders the accidental to entree prioritized visa appointments earlier the lawsuit begins connected June 11.

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FIFA President Gianni Infantino and President Donald Trump get connected the reddish carpet up of the FIFA World Cup 2026 Final Draw astatine John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts connected Dec. 5, 2025. (Brian Snyder/Reuters via Imagn Images)

Prospective visa holders indispensable beryllium capable to amusement that they suffice to get a visa and program to travel the laws successful the United States arsenic good arsenic permission the state erstwhile the tourney is implicit connected July 19.

Scheduling the visa interrogation doesn’t needfully mean a visa volition beryllium issued. Each applicant volition acquisition information screening and due vetting. They volition person to show that they suffice for a visa.

The State Department volition deploy 500 further unit members to process applications.

President Donald Trump spoke astir the FIFA Pass successful November. He said astatine the clip that the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security person been moving "tirelessly" to "ensure that shot fans from each astir the satellite are decently vetted and capable to travel to the United States adjacent summertime easily."

President Donald Trump and FIFA President Gianni Infantino up of the FIFA World Cup 2026 Final Draw astatine John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts connected Dec. 5, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters via Imagn Images)

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"I’ve directed my medication to bash everything wrong the powerfulness to marque the 2026 World Cup an unprecedented success. I deliberation it’s going to beryllium the greatest, and we are mounting records connected summons sales," Trump said astatine the time.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino said that the enactment expected "between 5 and 10 cardinal radical coming to America from… each implicit the satellite to bask the World Cup."

"With this FIFA Pass, we tin marque definite that those who bargain a summons that are morganatic shot fans, oregon shot fans… they tin travel and be the World Cup successful the champion conditions – starting from getting their visa and past coming, of course, successful the state to enjoy," Infantino said successful the Oval Office.

FILE - In this May 27, 2015, record photo, 2 persons are reflected successful the FIFA logo astatine the FIFA office successful Zurich, Switzerland (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

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Trump powerfully encouraged World Cup ticketholders from astir the satellite to use for their U.S. visas "right away."

Fox News’ Scott Thompson contributed to this report.

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