(AJC) — You’ve just scored free tickets for a Caribbean cruise leaving tomorrow. Your company’s Barcelona office needs you there Friday. A loved one back in Europe is ill.  If your passport was out of date, you might have had to make the drive to Miami or New Orleans to get a passport overnight.  With the opening of the Atlanta Passport Agency in downtown Atlanta, area residents with emergencies can get a passport the same day they apply for one. “We prefer you come in one day and pick it up the next, but we know we will have life-or-death events” that make even quicker service necessary, said Gale McCoy, director of the agency.

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