The U.S. State Department will begin revoking passports for Americans with unpaid child support starting Friday, May 8, according to the AP and a press release from the State Department. The first wave targets approximately 2,700 passport holders who owe $100,000 or more, based on figures the Department of Health and Human Services supplied to the State Department. The program will then expand to cover anyone owing more than $2,500, a threshold that was set by a 1996 law that had, for the most part, gone unenforced. Until this week, only parents who applied to renew their passports were subject to the child support penalty. Under the new policy, HHS will flag all past-due balances above $2,500 to the State Department, and any passport holder in that group will have their document revoked. HHS is still collecting data from state agencies to determine how many people fall into the broader $2,500 category, but the number could balloon.…