Mar 1, 2022, 6:35 am
Last edit by: CKDGM
Passport Agency Appointments (same day expedited service)
Appointments for same-day expedited service often go quickly. It is best that you schedule your appointment with the passport agency exactly 14 days before your trip. You will want to call the passport number before the center opens at 8am EST as they will have just opened up one day (14 days out) of appointments at all agencies. Appointment times start at 8am. It is important that you have enough buffer in your travel schedule. For example, if you make an appointment for a new passport at 11am and your time of travel is at 2pm, there will not be enough time for you to get your passport. If you book the 8am slot you may have to wait until the end of the business day to get your new passport or it may only be a few hours.
You will want to have your date of travel, time of travel, your flight itinerary number, name of destination, full name of applicant, and applicant's birth city, and the zip code of where you live (to help them find the closest available center with open slots). Use the following steps to increase your chances of success to booking an appointment as they can go very quickly:
Credit: chgoeditor
Known office locator numbers (not complete)
Note: The office code (first two digits of your application locator number returned by Passport Status) is the office reviewing your documents and approving your application. It isn't necessarily the address you mailed the forms to (always Irving or Philadelphia for renewals) nor the facility where the book is physically printed and mailed (often Tucson or Hot Springs).
10: Boston
11: NYC
12: Honolulu
14: Stamford, CT
15: Portsmouth, NH
17: Aurora, CO
18: Chicago
19: Washington, DC
20-29: Portsmouth, NH
34-39: Charleston
40-42: New Orleans, LA
45: Portsmouth, NH
50: Los Angeles, CA
51: Miami
53: Seattle
54: Minneapolis
55: Dallas
56: Detroit
57: San Francisco
58: Philadelphia, PA
61-64: Tucson
65: Hot Springs, AR
67: San Juan, PR
68: Portsmouth, NH
69: Portsmouth, NH
71: US embassies/consulates abroad (possibly Portsmouth, NH)
74: Atlanta
75: St Albans, VT
76: San Diego, CA
77: Buffalo, NY
78: El Paso, TX
79: Houston, TX
80: Special Issuance Agency ("Issues diplomatic, official, service, and no-fee regular passports, and facilitates visa processing for those traveling on behalf of the U.S. government.")
95: Online
A list of agencies and their locator numbers is listed on this page under the heading, "List of passport agencies and centers with locator numbers."
H/T Nayef, txviking, and various individual posts both here and on Reddit. If you have a locator not in the above list, check the return address agency name or postmark/ZIP on your returned citizenship docs, or passport card if you applied for one, which may be the processing office, although the address itself is likely to be a PO Box in Sterling, VA in all cases (which appears to be a lockbox location that processes mail for all locations). The passport books are printed in fewer locations, often Hot Springs and Tucson, and may not correspond to the agency where the processing steps occurred. If it doesnt match the list above, please add or correct.
Appointments for same-day expedited service often go quickly. It is best that you schedule your appointment with the passport agency exactly 14 days before your trip. You will want to call the passport number before the center opens at 8am EST as they will have just opened up one day (14 days out) of appointments at all agencies. Appointment times start at 8am. It is important that you have enough buffer in your travel schedule. For example, if you make an appointment for a new passport at 11am and your time of travel is at 2pm, there will not be enough time for you to get your passport. If you book the 8am slot you may have to wait until the end of the business day to get your new passport or it may only be a few hours.
You will want to have your date of travel, time of travel, your flight itinerary number, name of destination, full name of applicant, and applicant's birth city, and the zip code of where you live (to help them find the closest available center with open slots). Use the following steps to increase your chances of success to booking an appointment as they can go very quickly:
- 14 days before your trip, you need to schedule an appointment with the passport agency.
- At 7:55 am call the passport number 877-487-2778 (This have to be exactly 14 days before your plane ticket or less. If less, it will get harder to find an appointment)
- Click 1 (For English)
- Click 2 (New Passport)
- Continue to Click 7 to repeat, and keep doing this while watching your watch or using Time.gov to get the exact time down to the second.
- When your it hits exactly 8:00 am Click 2 (for traveling within 14 days option)
- There will be a delay of 3-4 second and you will wait for the next available agent. If you are very lucky, you will be put straight through to an agent. You may be waiting few minutes or maybe as long as 15-20 minutes.
- If you did not click 1 exactly at 8 am, you may have to wait for more than an hour and half
Credit: chgoeditor
Known office locator numbers (not complete)
Note: The office code (first two digits of your application locator number returned by Passport Status) is the office reviewing your documents and approving your application. It isn't necessarily the address you mailed the forms to (always Irving or Philadelphia for renewals) nor the facility where the book is physically printed and mailed (often Tucson or Hot Springs).
10: Boston
11: NYC
12: Honolulu
14: Stamford, CT
15: Portsmouth, NH
17: Aurora, CO
18: Chicago
19: Washington, DC
20-29: Portsmouth, NH
34-39: Charleston
40-42: New Orleans, LA
45: Portsmouth, NH
50: Los Angeles, CA
51: Miami
53: Seattle
54: Minneapolis
55: Dallas
56: Detroit
57: San Francisco
58: Philadelphia, PA
61-64: Tucson
65: Hot Springs, AR
67: San Juan, PR
68: Portsmouth, NH
69: Portsmouth, NH
71: US embassies/consulates abroad (possibly Portsmouth, NH)
74: Atlanta
75: St Albans, VT
76: San Diego, CA
77: Buffalo, NY
78: El Paso, TX
79: Houston, TX
80: Special Issuance Agency ("Issues diplomatic, official, service, and no-fee regular passports, and facilitates visa processing for those traveling on behalf of the U.S. government.")
95: Online
A list of agencies and their locator numbers is listed on this page under the heading, "List of passport agencies and centers with locator numbers."
H/T Nayef, txviking, and various individual posts both here and on Reddit. If you have a locator not in the above list, check the return address agency name or postmark/ZIP on your returned citizenship docs, or passport card if you applied for one, which may be the processing office, although the address itself is likely to be a PO Box in Sterling, VA in all cases (which appears to be a lockbox location that processes mail for all locations). The passport books are printed in fewer locations, often Hot Springs and Tucson, and may not correspond to the agency where the processing steps occurred. If it doesnt match the list above, please add or correct.
Current US passport wait? (Merged Threads)
May 21, 2022 | 12:56 pm
#1981
Join Date: Dec 2017
Posts: 274
I renewed my passport book via the online renewal pilot program. (More details in this thread: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/usa/...employees.html)
4/9: Applied for a large passport book via routine service and standard shipping. The application is fully online, and you don't need to mail any materials in. (You submit online, pay online, and there's no need to mail in your old passport book.)
4/9: "Received" email notification
5/18: "In Process" email notification. Note: When you use online passport renewal, the typical Passport Application Status website doesn't work, so I did not receive an application locator number and am not sure which office processed my application.
5/19: "Shipped" email notification
5/19: Shipped from Tucson, AZ via Priority Mail
5/21: Received new large passport book. It's an ePassport, not a NextGen passport.
4/9: Applied for a large passport book via routine service and standard shipping. The application is fully online, and you don't need to mail any materials in. (You submit online, pay online, and there's no need to mail in your old passport book.)
4/9: "Received" email notification
5/18: "In Process" email notification. Note: When you use online passport renewal, the typical Passport Application Status website doesn't work, so I did not receive an application locator number and am not sure which office processed my application.
5/19: "Shipped" email notification
5/19: Shipped from Tucson, AZ via Priority Mail
5/21: Received new large passport book. It's an ePassport, not a NextGen passport.
May 23, 2022 | 2:53 pm
#1982
Join Date: May 2022
Posts: 3
Appointment
Hey, the wiki post (I believe it is by (chgoeditor) about getting an appointment before 14 days is such an informative and useful post. Thank you very much for all the details. I have a quick question: while making an appointment, do you have to have a paid itinerary or a blocked ticket is acceptable? Based on the appointment date, can you change the ticket date by a day or two once you make an appointment? Please advise. Thank you very much.
May 23, 2022 | 7:34 pm
#1984
Join Date: Aug 2001
Posts: 1,362
My husband's passport renewal saga:
Applied in person with an appointment on April 25 at the post office. Paid for expedited service and Express shipping.
Checked online almost daily, and status was still "in process" on May 18. Googled online to see what other options were available and found a Facebook page that dealt with urgent passport needed. The key is to contact the State Governor, Federal Senator, or Congressperson, Sent email the same night.
Early on May 19, the Senator's office called. Six hours later, the status changed from "in process" to "approved." The next day, it showed "shipped". Due to the weekend, passport arrived today (Monday, May 23).
Ready to fly early next week.
Applied in person with an appointment on April 25 at the post office. Paid for expedited service and Express shipping.
Checked online almost daily, and status was still "in process" on May 18. Googled online to see what other options were available and found a Facebook page that dealt with urgent passport needed. The key is to contact the State Governor, Federal Senator, or Congressperson, Sent email the same night.
Early on May 19, the Senator's office called. Six hours later, the status changed from "in process" to "approved." The next day, it showed "shipped". Due to the weekend, passport arrived today (Monday, May 23).
Ready to fly early next week.
May 23, 2022 | 10:09 pm
#1985
Join Date: May 2022
Posts: 3
My husband's passport renewal saga:
Applied in person with an appointment on April 25 at the post office. Paid for expedited service and Express shipping.
Checked online almost daily, and status was still "in process" on May 18. Googled online to see what other options were available and found a Facebook page that dealt with urgent passport needed. The key is to contact the State Governor, Federal Senator, or Congressperson, Sent email the same night.
Early on May 19, the Senator's office called. Six hours later, the status changed from "in process" to "approved." The next day, it showed "shipped". Due to the weekend, passport arrived today (Monday, May 23).
Ready to fly early next week.
Applied in person with an appointment on April 25 at the post office. Paid for expedited service and Express shipping.
Checked online almost daily, and status was still "in process" on May 18. Googled online to see what other options were available and found a Facebook page that dealt with urgent passport needed. The key is to contact the State Governor, Federal Senator, or Congressperson, Sent email the same night.
Early on May 19, the Senator's office called. Six hours later, the status changed from "in process" to "approved." The next day, it showed "shipped". Due to the weekend, passport arrived today (Monday, May 23).
Ready to fly early next week.
May 24, 2022 | 10:17 am
#1989
Join Date: Aug 2001
Posts: 1,362
May 26, 2022 | 10:36 am
#1990
Join Date: Jan 2015
Posts: 122
Hi all:
Could you give me some advice about the urgent travel US passport application, the two week before travel date option.
https://travel.state.gov/content/tra...-agencies.html
I made an appointment on June 7th, but the travel date is June 8th. They said they can't be sure the passport is issued within the same day.
They need a ticket copy, but I'm thinking of rescheduling the flight and giving them the old ticket copy. Is that ok? Or, since the new travel date
is on 10th, maybe the new ticket can work fine?
Could you give me some advice about the urgent travel US passport application, the two week before travel date option.
https://travel.state.gov/content/tra...-agencies.html
I made an appointment on June 7th, but the travel date is June 8th. They said they can't be sure the passport is issued within the same day.
They need a ticket copy, but I'm thinking of rescheduling the flight and giving them the old ticket copy. Is that ok? Or, since the new travel date
is on 10th, maybe the new ticket can work fine?
May 27, 2022 | 3:54 pm
#1991
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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Posts: 102,077
That’s typically not going to cause a problem, as State doesn’t commonly access the PNRs and also realize that plans can change faster than submitted printouts.
That’s within range of what I’ve been typically seeing for applications at various Schengen area US embassies for over a decade.
That’s within range of what I’ve been typically seeing for applications at various Schengen area US embassies for over a decade.
May 27, 2022 | 5:13 pm
#1992
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2000
Posts: 15,858
That is true GU, although last time I did it pre-Covid I remember it being 5 or 6 business days, when in fact this one was done in 3 or 4 business days (The appointment was on a Monday morning European time and it was done and delivered to the Embassy on Friday seemingly also in the morning), so seemingly slightly faster than before--------note however it was NOT the "Next Generation" passport.
Jun 2, 2022 | 7:27 pm
#1993
Join Date: Mar 2017
Posts: 39
I renewed my passport book via the online renewal pilot program. (More details in this thread: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/usa/...employees.html)
4/9: Applied for a large passport book via routine service and standard shipping. The application is fully online, and you don't need to mail any materials in. (You submit online, pay online, and there's no need to mail in your old passport book.)
4/9: "Received" email notification
5/18: "In Process" email notification. Note: When you use online passport renewal, the typical Passport Application Status website doesn't work, so I did not receive an application locator number and am not sure which office processed my application.
5/19: "Shipped" email notification
5/19: Shipped from Tucson, AZ via Priority Mail
5/21: Received new large passport book. It's an ePassport, not a NextGen passport.
4/9: Applied for a large passport book via routine service and standard shipping. The application is fully online, and you don't need to mail any materials in. (You submit online, pay online, and there's no need to mail in your old passport book.)
4/9: "Received" email notification
5/18: "In Process" email notification. Note: When you use online passport renewal, the typical Passport Application Status website doesn't work, so I did not receive an application locator number and am not sure which office processed my application.
5/19: "Shipped" email notification
5/19: Shipped from Tucson, AZ via Priority Mail
5/21: Received new large passport book. It's an ePassport, not a NextGen passport.
Jun 6, 2022 | 4:15 am
#1994
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Helvetia
Programs: AS; BA Silver; ITA Volare Premium; LX Senator; UA; HH Gold; SK Gold; Sprngli Connaisseur
Posts: 3,344
The poster mentioned that they have access to the renewal process for government employees. The rest of us have to use the old way with mailing our stuff in.
Jun 6, 2022 | 7:08 am
#1995
Join Date: Jun 2022
Location: Fair Lawn, NJ
Posts: 4
Hi,
A newbie here. I am seeking experiences from folks who have applied for their US passport (first time / renewal) via the "expedited" option (with extra $60) at an acceptance facility. Currently, official timelines are 5-7 weeks. Have any of you got it sooner? My wife and I mailed ours via USPS acceptance facility on 5/20/22, received by passport office on 5/24, check cashed 5/25 and "in process" now. Locator code (first two digits from app locator no.) is 42 (New Orleans?)
Thanks!
A newbie here. I am seeking experiences from folks who have applied for their US passport (first time / renewal) via the "expedited" option (with extra $60) at an acceptance facility. Currently, official timelines are 5-7 weeks. Have any of you got it sooner? My wife and I mailed ours via USPS acceptance facility on 5/20/22, received by passport office on 5/24, check cashed 5/25 and "in process" now. Locator code (first two digits from app locator no.) is 42 (New Orleans?)
Thanks!