Originally Posted by bonjourashley

A very delayed final update:

On 5/13 I went into my State account to upgrade to expedited processing as I had a trip to Paris on 5/30, and I was starting to feel a little panicked. Surprisingly, it did not charge me to expedite, even though initially there was a price difference between expedited and standard processing.

Once I selected the option to expedite, I received a response that my request had been received, and that I would receive a message informing me when my request was reviewed.

To my surprise, a few hours later I received an email from State letting me know that my passport had shipped, and I received it the next day.