US Passport turnaround time?
Oct 28, 2002, 8:38 pm
#1
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: LAX
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US Passport turnaround time?
Any recent experiences relating how long the U.S. gummint is taking to turn around passports sent in for extensions? It's been 4-6 weeks, and doesn't seem like peak travel time...
Oct 28, 2002, 9:29 pm
#2
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Kirkland, WA
Posts: 468
Needed a passport renewal in June. Checked with the local office in Bellevue (they mail them to some place in New Hampshire, I think). They told me to allow four weeks. So I paid for expedited service. Turned in the papers one afternoon to the Passport Office here in Seattle, picked up the passport the next morning.
Bruce
Bruce
Oct 29, 2002, 8:18 am
#4
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Sunny Switzerland
Programs: BD / BA / AF
Posts: 4,388
Went to the US Embassy in London to apply for a replacement passport (original stolen). Amazingly enough, though all passports now come from the US -- still, had my passport within ten days.
Oct 29, 2002, 9:33 am
#5
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Washington, D.C.
Posts: 286
Got to www.state.gov - you'll see the rules and waiting times for such things as expedited renewal, same-day (in the US only) and regular renewal.