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)
Aug 15, 2022 | 9:07 pm
#2056
Join Date: Oct 2021
Posts: 37
Two new passports for Mr and Ms Tivv, both expedited processing, priority mail:
Jul 23 - Mr Tivv application submitted
Jul 26 - Ms Tivv application submitted
Jul 28 - Mr Tivv application in process (still in this state by Aug 15)
Aug 1 - Ms Tivv application in process
Aug 9 - Ms Tivv passport issued date
Aug 10 - Ms Tivv application approved & shipped
Aug 11 - Ms Tivv priority mail accepted in TUCSON, AZ
Aug 12 - Ms Tivv passport book delivered, large book, new design.
Aug 15 - Ms Tivv passport card delivered, regular mail
Mr Tivv is still waiting
To add:
Ms Tivv locator number starts with 69 and it corresponds to the passport card return address of Portsmouth, NH
Mr Tivv locator number starts with 75
Jul 23 - Mr Tivv application submitted
Jul 26 - Ms Tivv application submitted
Jul 28 - Mr Tivv application in process (still in this state by Aug 15)
Aug 1 - Ms Tivv application in process
Aug 9 - Ms Tivv passport issued date
Aug 10 - Ms Tivv application approved & shipped
Aug 11 - Ms Tivv priority mail accepted in TUCSON, AZ
Aug 12 - Ms Tivv passport book delivered, large book, new design.
Aug 15 - Ms Tivv passport card delivered, regular mail
Mr Tivv is still waiting
To add:
Ms Tivv locator number starts with 69 and it corresponds to the passport card return address of Portsmouth, NH
Mr Tivv locator number starts with 75
Last edited by tivv00; Aug 15, 2022 at 9:58 pm
Aug 18, 2022 | 9:57 am
#2059
Join Date: May 2013
Location: New York
Programs: UA Silver, Marriott LTPP, Hertz Five Star
Posts: 1,238
Helped brother apply for a new passport. His passport book was expired (but within 5 years of expiration), so he had to DS-64 the passport card and apply for a new book + card in-person using DS-11 at an acceptance facility (post office). Application was routine service (and also standard non-expedited shipping.)
Applied: July 28 2022
In Process: August 5th 2022
Approved: August 18th 2022 (today)
Status tracker says expected delivery "on or around 08/24/2022".
Exact arrival date: Aug 22 2022
Standard book, nextgen.
Prior posts here made it seem like the State dept was very much ahead of the promised processing deadlines, when I helped him out I did not expect it to be approved (with an estimated arrival date) door to door of just under 4 weeks...
Applied: July 28 2022
In Process: August 5th 2022
Approved: August 18th 2022 (today)
Status tracker says expected delivery "on or around 08/24/2022".
Exact arrival date: Aug 22 2022
Standard book, nextgen.
Prior posts here made it seem like the State dept was very much ahead of the promised processing deadlines, when I helped him out I did not expect it to be approved (with an estimated arrival date) door to door of just under 4 weeks...
Last edited by phltraveler; Aug 23, 2022 at 12:41 pm
Aug 18, 2022 | 10:07 am
#2060
Join Date: May 2013
Location: New York
Programs: UA Silver, Marriott LTPP, Hertz Five Star
Posts: 1,238
Her application wouldn't have been renewal because you can only use form DS-82 to renew a passport if it was issued within the last 15 years AND it was issued when the applicant was age 16 or older. Since her last passport would have been issued before she was age 16 (unless you renewed it extremely early), the application is the in-person DS-11 form like a first passport which requires presenting proof of citizenship.
Aug 19, 2022 | 2:32 pm
#2061
Suspended
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Watchlisted by the prejudiced, en route to purgatory
Programs: Just Say No to Fleecing and Blacklisting
Posts: 102,077
Her application wouldn't have been renewal because you can only use form DS-82 to renew a passport if it was issued within the last 15 years AND it was issued when the applicant was age 16 or older. Since her last passport would have been issued before she was age 16 (unless you renewed it extremely early), the application is the in-person DS-11 form like a first passport which requires presenting proof of citizenship.
Aug 19, 2022 | 7:24 pm
#2063
Join Date: Oct 2021
Posts: 37
Two new passports for Mr and Ms Tivv, both expedited processing, priority mail:
Jul 23 - Mr Tivv application submitted
Jul 26 - Ms Tivv application submitted
Jul 28 - Mr Tivv application in process (still in this state by Aug 15)
Aug 1 - Ms Tivv application in process
Aug 9 - Ms Tivv passport issued date
Aug 10 - Ms Tivv application approved & shipped
Aug 11 - Ms Tivv priority mail accepted in TUCSON, AZ
Aug 12 - Ms Tivv passport book delivered, large book, new design.
Aug 15 - Ms Tivv passport card delivered, regular mail
Mr Tivv is still waiting
To add:
Ms Tivv locator number starts with 69 and it corresponds to the passport card return address of Portsmouth, NH
Mr Tivv locator number starts with 75
Jul 23 - Mr Tivv application submitted
Jul 26 - Ms Tivv application submitted
Jul 28 - Mr Tivv application in process (still in this state by Aug 15)
Aug 1 - Ms Tivv application in process
Aug 9 - Ms Tivv passport issued date
Aug 10 - Ms Tivv application approved & shipped
Aug 11 - Ms Tivv priority mail accepted in TUCSON, AZ
Aug 12 - Ms Tivv passport book delivered, large book, new design.
Aug 15 - Ms Tivv passport card delivered, regular mail
Mr Tivv is still waiting
To add:
Ms Tivv locator number starts with 69 and it corresponds to the passport card return address of Portsmouth, NH
Mr Tivv locator number starts with 75
Aug 12 Mr Tivv passport issue date
Aug 16 Mr Tivv approved
Aug 17 Mr Tivv priority mail accepted in Hot Springs National Park, AR, 71913
Aug 18 Mr Tivv passport book delivered, old design
Aug 21, 2022 | 8:00 am
#2064
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Sarasota FL
Programs: AA Lifetime Gold
Posts: 423
Expedited Renewal
Aug 1 expedited renewal forms sent via Express mail to Philadelphia Passport office with payment for Express Mail return
Aug 4 status showed in process
Aug 19 new passport was delivered to Sarasota FL
old design
Aug 1 expedited renewal forms sent via Express mail to Philadelphia Passport office with payment for Express Mail return
Aug 4 status showed in process
Aug 19 new passport was delivered to Sarasota FL
old design
Aug 22, 2022 | 12:41 pm
#2066
Join Date: May 2018
Location: Colorado (anywhere between DEN DMM BAH)
Programs: United MileagePlus, SkyMiles, AAdvantage, NEXUS
Posts: 3,595
NGPs aren't the standard passport yet. The latest news was that they'll be exclusively issued in August 2022 but that doesn't seem to be the case yet.
Aug 24, 2022 | 3:16 pm
#2067
Join Date: Aug 2022
Posts: 2
Adult Renewal Mailed From Canada. Expedited Service.
Application sent via Canada Post on July 25th.
Arrived in Philadelphia on July 30th per tracking.
August 1st status showed as in process.
August 11 AM showed as approved.
August 11 PM now shows as mailed with an estimated arrival date of August 21.
Application sent via Canada Post on July 25th.
Arrived in Philadelphia on July 30th per tracking.
August 1st status showed as in process.
August 11 AM showed as approved.
August 11 PM now shows as mailed with an estimated arrival date of August 21.
Received August 24 in Canada, Next Gen.
Aug 25, 2022 | 6:35 pm
#2069
Join Date: Feb 2018
Posts: 91
Obvious August 2022 wont happen. As has been the case for years now, the Department of State cant quite get this program off the ground. Incompetence the cause? 🤷♂️ There has been no recent news as to timelines, with the last update back in March (suggesting August would be the switch over point). So who knows when the full switch over to next generation passports will happen. As of now, most passport issuances are the older epassport versions.
Aug 26, 2022 | 6:28 am
#2070
Suspended
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Watchlisted by the prejudiced, en route to purgatory
Programs: Just Say No to Fleecing and Blacklisting
Posts: 102,077
Obvious August 2022 wont happen. As has been the case for years now, the Department of State cant quite get this program off the ground. Incompetence the cause? 🤷♂️ There has been no recent news as to timelines, with the last update back in March (suggesting August would be the switch over point). So who knows when the full switch over to next generation passports will happen. As of now, most passport issuances are the older epassport versions.
Given the long set user fee mentality set in by quasi/faux-budget hawks that is had when it comes to providing services such as US passports, this is the result. Starve the (federal government) beast this way has its consequences. And personally, I dont see any downside to still getting the legacy generation version of the US passport.