Originally Posted by bubu-SNA

My daughter's passport application has us pretty nervous since we are planing on traveling June 26th.

5-15 Application submitted via county clerk with expedite & 2nd day shipping.
6-14 My wife managed to secure an in-person appointment in Tuscon for 6/24.
6-15 Application showed up online.
6-21 (today) I managed to snag an appointment at the San Diego passport agency for 6/25

The big question is, will a child's passport be issued same day in San Diego for an AM appointment assuming all paperwork is in order and both parents are present? I'm leaning towards the 7 hour each way drive to Tuscon on Thursday to have that "oh crap" cushion, or am I just being paranoid? Will the fact that there is an application already in the system with a locator # assigned be an issue?

A couple of things I've learned trying to secure an in-person appointment. The scheduling system releases appointments 10 business days out at approximately 12am local time to the office. There is a 2-3 minute variance on the 12am time. Trick is to be at the search for appointment screen and keep hitting "search" for the nearest office you can get too. As an example tonight @ 12am (6/22) appointments for July 2nd will be released. You have to be fast. Places like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego, the appointment slots last 30 seconds. By the time I completed clicking through and validating my e-mail with the code the appointments were gone on multiple nights. I don't know about central & east coast locations but Seattle seems to be less popular and has appointments last minutes, and Honolulu is almost a sure bet. If hunting for a west coast appointment under 10 days I noticed that they pop up between 9pm & 11pm PST randomly as people in the east & central time zones secure more local appointments at 12am est/cst/mst and end up releasing the appointments further west they were sitting on from before...pretty sure that's how I managed to snag San Diego.