The big passport application backlog has been eaten into at a rate of about 100,000 per week in recent weeks. But the backlog is still substantially above 1M. And the last reported backlog had it at around 1.5M. The backlog is expected to probably be in the range of 1.2-1.38M still but final numbers should be out soon.

Still no guidance circulating on if fee-based expedited service for general application processing will come back before September/October.