Mar 1, 2022, 6:35 am
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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)
Jun 21, 2023 | 12:17 pm
#2551
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My experience has been broadly similar to others whose passport wound up at Locator 69:
5/1: Mailed passport renewal by Priority Mail, paid for expedited service and mailing
5/4: Check cashed and status on website updated to Received
Around 6/15-6/19 (did not check website every day): Status on website changed to Approved, expected arrival date for the passport book and card should be around 6/21
6/21 New passport received by USPS priority mail
Some time during 6/22-6/25: Passport card arrived, I think by regular USPS mail, from a Portsmouth address
Some time during 6/29-7/3: Received my old passport and passport card, which had been cancelled, by regular USPS mail from a Virginia address.
Still have not received any status update emails, despite having signed up for them
5/1: Mailed passport renewal by Priority Mail, paid for expedited service and mailing
5/4: Check cashed and status on website updated to Received
Around 6/15-6/19 (did not check website every day): Status on website changed to Approved, expected arrival date for the passport book and card should be around 6/21
6/21 New passport received by USPS priority mail
Some time during 6/22-6/25: Passport card arrived, I think by regular USPS mail, from a Portsmouth address
Some time during 6/29-7/3: Received my old passport and passport card, which had been cancelled, by regular USPS mail from a Virginia address.
Still have not received any status update emails, despite having signed up for them
Last edited by Spent_All_My_Miles; Jul 4, 2023 at 7:19 pm
Jun 22, 2023 | 10:32 am
#2552
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Taipei
Programs: Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 1,379
Hi all, thanks in advance for any insight you can offer. I'll start with what I think is the most important question for our situation, and then I'll provide a summary of our situation.
Question: Does the urgent travel passport request (the one where you have international travel in 14 days and you're lucky enough to get an appt) provide you with a standard, full validity passport? I see that many countries (including Indonesia) do not accept an "emergency passport" but that's not what you'd receive if you successfully apply for an urgent travel passport, correct?
Situation: We have a short trip to Indonesia that will occur when my son's passport has just 5 months of validity left. Indonesia requires 6 months. Starting today and until that trip to Indonesia, we will be mostly on the move, traveling to China, Macau, Singapore, UK, 5 weeks in the US, and then the travel to Indonesia. It's frustrating because there's a decent amount of time to do something about it if there was an option, but it doesn't seem like we have any real options. Passports issued in short turnaround time from overseas embassies (HK, Singapore, UK) I believe are emergency passports that would not be accepted for travel to Indonesia. Really, getting his application in the US is the only possibility, yet we can't start that process until we arrive in the US (since we must apply in person) and then the 5 week time period is not long enough. It seems like our only possibility will be the urgent travel appointment inside the 14-day window before travel. 1) that seems very risky to wait til then but what can we do? and 2) I'm not sure if that would help. Is the passport issued in such a scenario a fully valid passport and not an "emergency passport?" Logic suggests that it would be since it's designed for Americans traveling abroad (unlike an emergency passport which might be for Americans abroad to return to the states) but I don't want to assume anything.
Thanks for any insight and if there's any other possibility I've overlooked. Thanks!
Question: Does the urgent travel passport request (the one where you have international travel in 14 days and you're lucky enough to get an appt) provide you with a standard, full validity passport? I see that many countries (including Indonesia) do not accept an "emergency passport" but that's not what you'd receive if you successfully apply for an urgent travel passport, correct?
Situation: We have a short trip to Indonesia that will occur when my son's passport has just 5 months of validity left. Indonesia requires 6 months. Starting today and until that trip to Indonesia, we will be mostly on the move, traveling to China, Macau, Singapore, UK, 5 weeks in the US, and then the travel to Indonesia. It's frustrating because there's a decent amount of time to do something about it if there was an option, but it doesn't seem like we have any real options. Passports issued in short turnaround time from overseas embassies (HK, Singapore, UK) I believe are emergency passports that would not be accepted for travel to Indonesia. Really, getting his application in the US is the only possibility, yet we can't start that process until we arrive in the US (since we must apply in person) and then the 5 week time period is not long enough. It seems like our only possibility will be the urgent travel appointment inside the 14-day window before travel. 1) that seems very risky to wait til then but what can we do? and 2) I'm not sure if that would help. Is the passport issued in such a scenario a fully valid passport and not an "emergency passport?" Logic suggests that it would be since it's designed for Americans traveling abroad (unlike an emergency passport which might be for Americans abroad to return to the states) but I don't want to assume anything.
Thanks for any insight and if there's any other possibility I've overlooked. Thanks!
Jun 22, 2023 | 12:34 pm
#2553
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Posts: 15,858
1. No, These are NOT "Emergency passports"
2. Will you be in any of those other places for more than a week, or can you extend? Because that would be better than doing it in the US.
3. I have traveled to Indonesia with less than 3 months on my Passport. No one cared, your only possible issue might be some "officious" check in agent in the country you come from reading rote of Timatic.
2. Will you be in any of those other places for more than a week, or can you extend? Because that would be better than doing it in the US.
3. I have traveled to Indonesia with less than 3 months on my Passport. No one cared, your only possible issue might be some "officious" check in agent in the country you come from reading rote of Timatic.
Jun 22, 2023 | 5:43 pm
#2554
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It generally results in a standard, full validity passport — assuming your citizenship and identification document aren’t in question and the rest of the application are properly completed when submitted.
Jun 24, 2023 | 1:39 am
#2555
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Tokyo
Posts: 2,153
I sustained a serious injury abroad and lost my passport as part of the fun. Picked up an emergency/temp 1 year passport and it appears that I will be able to use that successfully to enter Singapore and Vietnam here shortly (Japan was no problem). Given the timing of everything on my docket (only going to be in the states for 2-3 weeks at a time for the foreseeable future) I'm assuming the best thing to do is to use my emergency passport to get in and out of the states over the next few months and then when I'm back in Japan go ahead and do my renewal via the consulate here (since I'll have 6-8 weeks to wait)...
Jun 24, 2023 | 8:53 am
#2556
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Taipei
Programs: Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 1,379
1. No, These are NOT "Emergency passports"
2. Will you be in any of those other places for more than a week, or can you extend? Because that would be better than doing it in the US.
3. I have traveled to Indonesia with less than 3 months on my Passport. No one cared, your only possible issue might be some "officious" check in agent in the country you come from reading rote of Timatic.
2. Will you be in any of those other places for more than a week, or can you extend? Because that would be better than doing it in the US.
3. I have traveled to Indonesia with less than 3 months on my Passport. No one cared, your only possible issue might be some "officious" check in agent in the country you come from reading rote of Timatic.
2. The only one that would be a week is London (10 days). However even that seems a bit rushed based on my interpretation of their website. And I can't nail down whether that would be an "emergency" passport or not. HK explicitly states that if you need it within a few days it will be the emergency variety.
3. This is good but Indonesia recently instituted an e-visa and I imagine it will be harder to slip through the cracks since the e-visa would likely ask for passport expiration dates.
Jun 25, 2023 | 4:30 am
#2557
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2. If you tell them that you are only there a short while they of course will only give you an emergency passport! What I and others have been saying, for quite awhile is that some people are getting their FULL passports back in 4-5 business days. There is however no guarantee of this, and it can easily take several weeks and no one will guarantee anything!
3. As far as I can see Indonesia STILL has "Visa on Arrival" and evisa is still just an option. So all you are saving is a possible queue.
3. As far as I can see Indonesia STILL has "Visa on Arrival" and evisa is still just an option. So all you are saving is a possible queue.
Jun 26, 2023 | 5:13 pm
#2559
Join Date: Mar 2022
Posts: 6
Data points: Routine passport and card application sent via USPS Priority 3-Day Mail to Irvin, TX
06 Apr: Mailed from N Florida
09 Apr: Received in Irvin, TX
10 Apr: Check cashed
11 Apr: Status- In progress, application locator 62
24 Jun: Status- Mailed (USPS Priority Mail)
24 Jun: USPS Informed Delivery Expected delivery: 28 Jun
26 Jun: USPS Status- Shipped from Tucson, AZ
27 Jun: Passport book delivered (Next Generation Passport)
89 days
17 Jul: Supporting Documents returned (old passport + card) Mailed from Tucson, AZ (Return addy: Sterling, VA)
103 days
Emails requested, none received.
06 Apr: Mailed from N Florida
09 Apr: Received in Irvin, TX
10 Apr: Check cashed
11 Apr: Status- In progress, application locator 62
24 Jun: Status- Mailed (USPS Priority Mail)
24 Jun: USPS Informed Delivery Expected delivery: 28 Jun
26 Jun: USPS Status- Shipped from Tucson, AZ
27 Jun: Passport book delivered (Next Generation Passport)
82 days
03 Jul: Passport Card delivered- Shipped from Tucson, AZ89 days
17 Jul: Supporting Documents returned (old passport + card) Mailed from Tucson, AZ (Return addy: Sterling, VA)
103 days
Emails requested, none received.
Last edited by tmnyc; Jul 17, 2023 at 10:30 am Reason: Update
Jun 28, 2023 | 8:39 am
#2561
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Jul 1, 2023 | 2:07 pm
#2563
Join Date: Jan 2014
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When you go in for your urgent travel service passport appointment, do they check that your current passport is not valid for travel anymore? Basically, I have a trip to Indonesia departing Jul 17. Indonesia requires 6 months of passport validity for entry and my passport expires Jan 12, so it wouldn't be valid for my trip. Not wanting to take chances on getting an appointment on Jul 17 for my travel on Jul 17, I made an appointment for Jul 5 by booking a mileage ticket to YVR on Jul 5 evening that I have no intention of actually flying. The only issue is that my current passport is perfectly fine for my "trip to YVR on Jul 5". Is this something they might check when I arrive at the appointment, or is the travel within 14 days thing just a formality box they have to check?
Jul 1, 2023 | 6:43 pm
#2564
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If you have an appointment, they shouldn’t care whether your current US passport is still valid for travel or not as long as it’s still useful as proof of citizenship/identity for the paid application — assuming you are using it for that proof for passport eligibility.
If at the time of paying and submitting your properly completed application they say they can’t turn it fast enough for you to make the July 5th evening flight and make an issue of it, just note that the airline may be more willing to freely rebook you on standby within 24 hours of originally scheduled travel and early enough next day pick up is better than nothing.
Last edited by GUWonder; Jul 1, 2023 at 6:51 pm
Jul 4, 2023 | 11:07 pm
#2565
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 291
More like an "unlikely question" than a "likely question" based on what I've seen a lot. It's up to the US to decide who is and is not a US citizen and who is entitled to a US passport and is not. I don't have a count of how many people born in the US are not US citizens, but it's at least in the six figure range and possibly even the seven figure range by this point given the combination includes those who relinquished US citizenship, those who renounced US citizenship, and those who were born in the US while not subject to US jurisdiction.
Last edited by crescatfloreat; Jul 4, 2023 at 11:19 pm