US Passport Renewal at a Consulate or Embassy
Oct 17, 2011, 2:39 am
#16
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OP UPDATE:
I submitted my passport with my application but after waiting about 45 minutes I got in back with 4 holes punched clear through it and was told that my new passport would arrive in around 2 weeks. So I still have my passport, but I can't really use it for traveling.
I submitted my passport with my application but after waiting about 45 minutes I got in back with 4 holes punched clear through it and was told that my new passport would arrive in around 2 weeks. So I still have my passport, but I can't really use it for traveling.
Oct 17, 2011, 3:22 pm
#17
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I don't know if issue (1) is the same in Dar es Salaam. As to issue (2), if I did have upcoming travel plans (or if I would have simply said that I did, even if I really did not, although I don't think that lying to a State Department official is a particularly wise idea), I wonder if the consulate would have waited to invalidate the passport until the new one arrived.
Oct 18, 2011, 5:14 am
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Do you have to return to the consulate to pick up your new passport? Or will it be sent to you by mail? If the latter, then I imagine they would want to ensure that your old passport was canceled.
Since I had to return to pick it up in person, they could do it at that moment.
Since I had to return to pick it up in person, they could do it at that moment.
Oct 18, 2011, 7:33 am
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