http://travel.state.gov/passport/ppi/info/info_870.html

Very helpful gal on the phone at this office. I am happy to know that if you have been conviced of a crime - up to Federal levels -

and you have completed your sentence and been released from parole or pardoned, you can be issued a passport.

Pending court cases would prevent it from beinging issued.

I was surpized to find out that past criminal history doesn't prevent overseas travel. :signhere: