Originally Posted by NickP 1K

The comparison I had was an expedited RENEWAL vs a standard FULL APPLICATION (which you have to do for an under 16 year old). Seems full applications are not as slow on processing vs renewals (likely a larger number of renewals vs full applications and from what I heard different teams in State/Passport Office work on different application types). I would assume if you get it in as soon as possible with a standard renewal you would get it back by end of Jan. Again it's subject to change. Any reason you can't get in this next week just to shave another two weeks off?