Next Generation and ticket issue date was not an issue.

Online, non expedited renewal: 4 weeks 2 days from submission to "shipped" email.

Jun 25 edit: received 52pg old version.

If you are making an appointment for emergency travel service, they may not return your passport to you same day if your flight is not departing that day.

I got a 7am appointment for today at a passport center that is about a 3 hour drive from my house (if no traffic). It was all I could get. I had booked a flight for tomorrow, out of my home city airport. I drove up last night night and stayed in a hotel. After two hours, I got in and they accepted everything. The agent told me to return tomorrow to pick up my passport at 1pm. I said that I thought it was same-day service, and they told me that is only if you are traveling that day. I said that I live 3 hours away, that my flight out of my home city is at 7pm, and I said that I might not have time to drive 3 hours even make my flight tomorrow. Plus I'd have to either stay another night in a hotel or drive 6 hours back and forth. The agent said that was the policy, and had the gall to say "I actually like the drive down to [my city]." I pleaded, and the agent said I could authorize someone to pick it up for me, that I could pick my passport up tomorrow at 1pm, or that I could not pick it up at all.

Have experienced the same kind of “come back tomorrow for pick-up” thing at the Chicago office. It’s not a new dynamic.

When we applied for our passport, the only one who get the nextgen passport is my minor kid. The adult got the old one.

I was updating our current flights with the new passport information and noticed that my wife got the NextGen passport.

What is the advantage of the Nextgen passport - (it has 1 less page/book per what I've read which is a disadvantage for me) - but is it more secure? My old one was supposed to be able to be machine read with a strip on the bottom - but that often didn't work - maybe the new one would?

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I see no general advantage from the NextGen passport as a passport user. Someone told me “great, it’s more spill resistant”, but I’ve seen the fusses that can be made even when the passport’s biodata page isn’t damaged. The same person then said “it’s also more tear-resistant”, but there is a downside to the extent that is the case too.

I’m still not around to seeing if abroad the chip reads more reliably in NextGen passports than in the ones I mostly use. But either way, I’m going to stick to mainly using my legacy version passports (issued this year) for my ordinary travel on a US passport for quite some time and then some.

If your passport is of the 10-year validity sort and currently nearing expiration, then maybe you will get a hint about a concern that was out there previously:

https://www.afar.com/magazine/the-de...-your-passport

Either way, NextGen or legacy version, the passports work just fine as usual, so not something to worry about.

Thanks - I just didn't see any advantage (but the disadvantage of losing a page) to the nextgen, but since I don't have a choice and need to renew my pp it doesn't matter. I just was wondering why some people seemed to be wanting the new one ;)

5 weeks from online (non-expedited) submission to arrival. Thrilled with that outcome.

The polycarbonate data page used in the Nextgen passport is not likely to get creased / damaged. I've seen issues in the past with the standard paper(ish) page getting bent / creased by airline agents who are careless or through use of passport holders where the corners wrinkle through repeated inserti:on. We tend to use our passports a lot and 10 years is a long time and provides a great deal of opportunity for wear and tear.

I prefer the physical flexibility of the older passports. The plastic data page in the NextGen, plus the semi-rigid plastic cover on all electronic passports, makes me feel like I'm carrying a brick in my pocket.

Data point.

Child, first time passport, expedited with 1-2 day return. No SSN (submitted affidavit) since child is newborn and SSN not received at time of application.

Applied- at local post office - 24 June 2022
In process- 29 June 2022
Check cashed- 29 June 2022
Approved - 11 July 2022
Shipped- 11 July 2022
Received via UPS - 13 July 2022 before 12pm.

The polycarbonate page in my Norwegian passport turned brittle and came loose while entering Jamaica on my honeymoon. Granted, that was a design flaw and Norway started issuing polycarbonate passports 20 years before the US did.

Still, it was a huge hassle. When I received my first US passport, I was relieved to see it was the older design with a laminated paper biodata page.