Originally Posted by
naumank
Something weird just happened. In late afternoon on 5/4, I got a notification that the passports had been shipped (due to be delivered on 5/5). I got the track numbers for both passports. Then just a few minutes ago, I got another email notification and the status changed back to "Approved." I went online to check again. Both applications' statuses changed back to "Approved." But the USPS track numbers still work and both packages are already in the Informed Delivery system. Not sure if anyone else has encountered the same problem.
It's such a mess.
It’s been this way for many years now with the application status and the emails.
“even as the emails and status updates online are too often stale and unrepresentative of what is going on with the app, an update and the emails going out should be reassuring”.
And too often the emails never even happen or even happen when they are basically irrelevant.