Did you check your online status after you submitted? Did it ever change?

Wow, very similar timeline as mine. Agree with you, seeing several posts with <7weeks processing especially from locator 69. Let's hope for the best. I'll post here as well any updates I have, Good luck.

[EDIT] - Sorry, this was a reply to "bb-miler", in-context reply didnt work, or fumbled the quoted-reply.

Thought you were responding to me until the edit. are you locator 69 as well? seems like all the recent pages are locator 69. I'm 79 and according to the numerous reddit reports, it's a nightmare. I haven't seen a single success story without getting congressman involved...

Yes, locator 69, seem to be a hit or a miss with most of the locators these days. Good luck, hang in there.

Data Point: Adult, Non-Expedited renewal
 

• Passport mailed arrived for processing: March 31
• Locator #19
• Passport Approved: May 15
• Mailed from Arkansas
• Passport arrived: May 18

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Yes.

Germany is also one of those countries that is adamant you must enter and exit it with its own documents if you're eligible to have them, or else! (I call them low self-confidence countries, contrasting with the UK, where you can enter with whatever document you wish to use, if it allows the purpose of your stay - anyway.) But with Germany, you have the option to fly to it with whatever passport you wish to, and then identify yourself at the border with the German national identification card.
You can see where I am going with this. Is it possible, or has anyone ever tried to, fly to the US with a foreign passport accompanied by the USA passport card? It could follow a similar principle as if you presented your friendly DPRK passport with a permanent resident card, or with a visa in your old passport.
If that's possible then alternating renewals between passport and card every 5 years could significantly diminish current and future woes...

Mine was received and check cashed on 4/24 using expedited service. Please keep me posted on your passport progress as I will get an indication for mine. I might have to travel for an in person appointment as we have travel on 6/10. Mine locator is also 69.

Yes, but that’s for those US dual-citizens with Canadian passports or an ESTA on US VWP country passports but presenting to CBP as a US citizen by use of a US passport card or US passport — sometimes even with a recently expired US passport/passport card — at the US airport of entry.

My passport only has 3 empty pages left, so I will have to renew it soon.
I've been traveling nonstop for 1.5 years and haven't been to the USA since then.

I change hotels/Airbnbs every 1-4 weeks.

1) I'll need to stay in a country for a minimum of 2 months in order to make sure I get my new passport right? I think 1 month would be too risky
2) On the renewal application can I use the US Embassy as my mailing address in whatever country I'm in?
Or should I ask the hotel front desk if I can use their mailing address even after I've already left the hotel?

Adult Renewal - Paid for Expedited
 

Next time, request a 48 page passport book for the same price.

My recollection was I did, but have no way of proving it. I'll deal with getting extra pages if needed, in the future. Suspect it will be at least a half dozen years before it might become an issue.

You can no longer get extra pages. You will need a new passport.

The major challenge is having documentation facially acceptable to the air carrier at check-in. Generally speaking, airlines won't let you board a flight to the US without a passport and visa/residence card combination that allows US entry based on Timatic instructions.

However, you can get through CBP with any proof of US citizenship, e.g. a birth certificate or naturalization certificate, possibly even less robust documentation than that depending on the officer. They essentially have to let US citizens enter the country.