Originally Posted by
chgoeditor
Any recently experiences with same-day passport issuances?
My husband just got notice that he's US citizenship ceremony has been scheduled for the day before we have tickets to fly to see his family for the first time in two years, thanks to the pandemic and border closings. He gets sworn in at 9:30 am. If we're able to make an appointment with the passport office later that morning, is there any chance he'll be able to leave that afternoon with a passport, enabling us to take our trip? Postponing his oath ceremony is not an option.
I didn’t deal with this personally, but the current tactic I’ve seen people do is that they make a phone call for the appointment as soon as the line opens up at 8 am ET and usually they’ll call exactly 14 days before their ticketed flight. Don’t know if it’s 14 days or more for you until you have to fly, but here’s what people have been doing as per an immigration message board:
- 14 days before your trip, you need to schedule an appointment in a travel agency
- Appointments are not easy to get, but there is tricks.
- Wake up at 7:45 eastern time
- @7:55 am call the passport number 877-487-2778 (This have to be exactly 14 days before your plane ticket or less. If less, it will get harder to find an appointment)
- Click 1 (For English), then 1 (New Passport), then 2 (To continue). That is 112
- Listen for the options, and notice that it say click 4 to repeat this menu
- Click 4 to repeat, and keep doing this while watching your watch
- When your watch hits exactly 8 :00 am, then hit 2 (for travelling within 14 days option)
- Now you will be waiting for an agent. If you are very lucky, you will be waiting few minutes or maybe as long as 15-20 minutes.
- If you did not hit the 2 option exactly at 8 am, you may have to wait for more than an hour and half
Notes: I did this from 3 phones. I hit the 2 too early from one phone, so I lost my place in line and got disconnected, so I used the other phones as a backup for such thing. If you tried to call again after 8 am, you will mostly get busy signal. So follow steps above exactly as is.
If it's life threatening appointment, you can do the same steps above but you have to do it 3 days before your travel date. I am not sure if it's the same as above
112 4444 2 or, if you have to use other keys. But play with the number after like 7 pm when they are closed to find the right keys.
Your other options, is reaching out to your congressman or senator only when you have a flight ticket and ask them to help you with an appointment in a passport agency.