Originally Posted by
1k-all-the-way
I sent in my passport renewal and expedite fee last friday. Yesterday (thursday) it appeared on-line as in process. I received it today (friday)! Exactly 1 week or 5 business days. This was certainly unexpected.
FYI_ For those of you that need birth certificates, i just used a service called
www.vitalchek.com, applied for birth cert online with credit card number and Fed-x to my Visa card - $25 all together - and received my cert NEXT DAY from Ny to California. WOW!
Vitalchek is great for some states and not-so-good for others. For some states, the fastest that you can get it through vitalchek is like 12-15 business days. I ended up driving as vitalchek couldn't possibly deliver it in time. I had a cruise and my passport was out for processing. My original bc was deemed "not acceptable" due to a style change (long story but it WAS the original bc, not a hospital version).