Hi Everyone,
Thanks for sharing all your timelines and suggestions. It's been really helpful to read it all during our waiting period. Here's how it went for us:
5/20 Submitted the application in person for a minor at a post office. We paid for the expedited service and the 1-2 delivery.
5/28 "Processing" it didn't show in the system until I called the customer support on 6/14 (up until this point the information was "not available").
6/1 Check cashed
6/24 Still processing. We reached out to Pelosi's office in the AM and by late afternoon a nice person called us back and said he was going to send us the privacy release form for us to complete and send back together with the proof of travel. He submitted the inquiry to the passport agency on 6/25.
6/28 No updates. We followed up with Pelosi's office but no response.
6/29 We reached out to Padilla's office and sent the privacy release form but no response.
We were desperate to get an appointment at the agency to get the passport within 3 days but we had no luck securing a time slot. We tried between 12am -1:30am and the dates would show up but without any time slots.
6/30 at 5:20AM we received an e-mail confirmation that the passport was shipped 6/29
6/30 the passport arrived at 10am! Phew!! Our trip is on 7/3.
The system still shows our application as "In Process".

Good luck everyone!