Expedited Passport Renewal
Expedited Passport Renewal
I know I have cut it close with this but I am wondering about anyone's real time experience with passport renewal.
I sent ours off last Friday (Oct 19). I paid the extra $$ to expedite. They claim it will be processed in 3 days from receipt.
The site recognizes receipt & that my passport is in processing. My husband's (which was in the same package) is not even showing in the system yet.
The site even acknowledges my request & payment for expedited service. Still, it says 3 weeks. 3 weeks is not 3 days. I figured on a week for them to do it and then a week max for it to get back to me.
Just curious if anyone has any experience with this and can share a realistic timeline.
I sent ours off last Friday (Oct 19). I paid the extra $$ to expedite. They claim it will be processed in 3 days from receipt.
The site recognizes receipt & that my passport is in processing. My husband's (which was in the same package) is not even showing in the system yet.
The site even acknowledges my request & payment for expedited service. Still, it says 3 weeks. 3 weeks is not 3 days. I figured on a week for them to do it and then a week max for it to get back to me.
Just curious if anyone has any experience with this and can share a realistic timeline.
One of the girls on our trip waited until the last minute to get her passport and she finally sent in an expedited application and got hers back in about 3 weeks. The times listed on the web site (3 days) was before the government had this massive passport backlog from changing the requirements.
Anyhow, your trip is coming up pretty soon, right? What I'd recommend is calling your Congressman's office and having their state department liaison check on it for you. They can get through the red tape much better than we can. (I used to work for a Congressman many, many moons ago, and I saw passports magically appear on more than one occasion.)
If you don't know who your representative is, go to this web site and put in your ZIP code. You can either jot an email from the page it takes you to, or use the name to look up their web page and call.
http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Anyhow, your trip is coming up pretty soon, right? What I'd recommend is calling your Congressman's office and having their state department liaison check on it for you. They can get through the red tape much better than we can. (I used to work for a Congressman many, many moons ago, and I saw passports magically appear on more than one occasion.)
If you don't know who your representative is, go to this web site and put in your ZIP code. You can either jot an email from the page it takes you to, or use the name to look up their web page and call.
http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Hi Flip-Flop,
I agree with LuLu. We applied last summer for expedited passports, then when we checked their status on line, mine didn't show up at all. My husband called our Congressman's office in Kentucky, and his assistant was very responsive and agreed to help. She called the "passport gurus" in DC, and all of our passports arrived before our trip.
Good luck.
I agree with LuLu. We applied last summer for expedited passports, then when we checked their status on line, mine didn't show up at all. My husband called our Congressman's office in Kentucky, and his assistant was very responsive and agreed to help. She called the "passport gurus" in DC, and all of our passports arrived before our trip.
Good luck.
When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else. – Mark Twain
Luckily for you, if you are really in a pinch (get under 2 weeks), you can go to the Washington, D.C. passport office and get a new one there.
There are only 13 offices in the U.S. I think the one nearest to me in Tennessee is in New Orleans. When I worked for the Congressman in Ohio, people would have to fly into Chicago before their trips to pick up the expedited passport because that was the nearest office.
Seriously, though, your Congressman's office will make one call and you'll have a status on your passports, and you'll definitely have them before your trip.
There are only 13 offices in the U.S. I think the one nearest to me in Tennessee is in New Orleans. When I worked for the Congressman in Ohio, people would have to fly into Chicago before their trips to pick up the expedited passport because that was the nearest office.
Seriously, though, your Congressman's office will make one call and you'll have a status on your passports, and you'll definitely have them before your trip.
I wouldn't worry too much about the package part of it. That was the case with mine, but we found out they were all received at the same time in the same package. Don't know why mine didn't show up, but I wouldn't wait to long to check on it just in case.
When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else. – Mark Twain
I've heard this more than once. I'm wondering if maybe they just put the status on one person in the package into the system.
Did you get a passport for your new baby? And I believe there is something that both parents have to sign to prevent international abductions, but I'm not really sure how it works. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
Did you get a passport for your new baby? And I believe there is something that both parents have to sign to prevent international abductions, but I'm not really sure how it works. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
Perhaps that is the case.Lulu76 wrote:I've heard this more than once. I'm wondering if maybe they just put the status on one person in the package into the system.
Did you get a passport for your new baby? And I believe there is something that both parents have to sign to prevent international abductions, but I'm not really sure how it works. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
We did not get a new passport for the baby yet. We are waiting for him to look a little more kid like and a little less babylike. We plan to take his birth certificate and since both parents on there will be with him we don't anticipate problems.
The process for our daughter's passport application two years ago was very easy. We went to the local PO, did everything including taking the photo there, and had it in our hands in 3 or 4 weeks.
When I got a new passport (I lost my original one after it expired) in 2002, it only took three weeks in all. With all these new guidelines and the fact that you need it to go anywhere, they take so much longer now. Eventually I'm sure it'll even out, but I think it should be like Social Security numbers are now, and you just apply for it the second a new person is born.
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