New Orleans and San Francisco processing
 

2 passport renewals in process. Both standard/routine processing, non-expedited.

Passport #1 (Adult renewal via mail). Locator# starts with 42, shows "in process" from Sep 07. Any one know what New Orleans processing times look like?

Passport #2 (minor/child renewal via USPS in-person appointment). Locator# starts with 57, shows "in process" from Sep 10. Looks like San Francisco, about 50 miles north from my residence.

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Paid for the expedited processing after being scared that it takes months. Did not pay for expedited mail.
Applied for my daughter's passport renewal at the local library. August 26.
Check cashed on September 1
Passport received September 14.
Probably should have paid for regular processing.

Service: Expedite Processing + Expedite Shipping, new passport application

Locator: 76

• 08/28: Submitted through an acceptance agency in San Diego, CA
  
• 09/02: In Process
  
• 09/03: Request mailing address change and add travel date 11/08 via email
  
• 09/13: Request change to Large Book from Regular Book and change travel date to 09/25 via email
  
• 09/14: Shipped via USPS Express from San Diego office
  
• 09/16: Received passport (large book) + original documents in the mailbox
  

Total: 20 days

Contacted: 2 Senators and 1 House of Rep, 1 senator replied on 09/15 that it was shipped.

Got the original version passport, not the Next Generation Passport.

Two minors, applied at post office on August 6th. Regular processing, sent to Philly.

Checks cashed, in process on August 23rd. Signed up for email status updates. Never got one update ever. None.

September 9th, printing.
September 11th, shipped priority mail. I only know this because my informed delivery told me. Tracking shows shipped from Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas.

September 13th, one received, September 14th, other other received. Return address on envelope is from Seattle, which matches locator number.

Never got one email update from Department of State.

The same day we applied in person for our twins, we dropped renewals for mom and dad (me) in the mail. Cashed and in process on August 24th, no updates since then. Priority mail envelope they were sent in has never been scanned in.

Locator 76 = San Diego apparently based on the return address

Minor passport with express everything

8/30 - used USPS in CA to submit with express mailing. Painless process there. I used the online form filler and printed application wi the barcode

8/31 - delivered in PA

9/3 - check cashed and online status showed received. Never received any emails despite them correctly auto filling my email

9/15 - passport was sent but I didn't get any notification from state. Just looking at the postmark

9/16 - passport arrived. Online status now says approved

so takeaway is 17 days door to door

like some other reports, I never got a single email (I have in the past with other applications) and I made sure to confirm my email address several times online

I guess 34 (South Carolina) really is as slow as many said.

Even with expedited everything I’m still waiting compared to a lot of people who had their applications sent a week or 10 days after me and they’re done.

Did you check your spam folder?

I want to write something snarky, but I'll just say yes

Someone on another forum sent his application four days after mine, also expedited everything and it ended up in Charleston like mine, but his got approved today and mine didn’t. I hope this still means an approval could be imminent.

Sorry it's taking so long for you! I was originally going to use you as a benchmark for when mine would arrive but it turns out there's extreme variability. I guess Atlanta is not the office you want. Good luck

Five weeks and four days (39 days) from mailing to getting my renewal passport in my mailbox. No passport card yet though.

8/9 - Mailed USPS Priority Mail from Calif. to Irving, Texas
8/11 - USPS tracking shows delivered
9/17 - Delivered to mailbox via USPS Priority Mail

First 2 digits of passport locator was "18" and mailed from Little Rock, Arkansas, but return was Chicago, Illinois.

I was prepared for the worst, but I saw that times were improving. It appears that that rush cuts the time in about half. I wasn't in a rush so could afford to wait a bit longer.

Sadly, my a family member sent theirs to get renewed earlier than me and is still waiting. :(

It does appear to still vary quite a bit based on which passport office processes your application. But processing times do seem to have improved across the board compared to this summer.

This is 100% true. My is still in processing hell, my daughter's send the same day are already in my safe. Go figure, they went to Seattle and mine is in New Orleans.

New Orleans got hit with a hurricane recently so don’t know how that affected things.