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Old 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:
  1. 14 days before your trip, you need to schedule an appointment with the passport agency.
  2. 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)
  3. Click 1 (For English)
  4. Click 2 (New Passport)
  5. 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.
  6. When your it hits exactly 8:00 am Click 2 (for traveling within 14 days option)
  7. 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.
  8. If you did not click 1 exactly at 8 am, you may have to wait for more than an hour and half
After the appointment slot has been reserved you will be provided with a unique identifier code and reservation number. These details will also be emailed to you.

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.
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Old Aug 26, 2023 | 3:50 pm
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Originally Posted by sambb
can they mail it next day?
Why would they do that?

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Old Aug 26, 2023 | 8:05 pm
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Originally Posted by gcadays99
Update, received passport in mail yesterday. Aug 22. So just at 3 weeks total time using expedited and priority mail.
This is great news! Im not too far from your timeline but didnt request priority mailing of the passport.

Do you recall which processing center your app was completed by?
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Old Aug 27, 2023 | 9:33 am
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My status has been "Approved" since Feb 1. Says I should receive on or around 2/7 (unchanged), but now says routine service 8-11 weeks where it used to say 6-9[/QUOTE]


My status also has been "Approved". Waiting for the next.
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Old Aug 27, 2023 | 10:52 am
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i have to travel within 2 weeks, but not sure i can wait in chicago after my appt
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Old Aug 28, 2023 | 11:01 pm
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Originally Posted by eiloo
This is great news! Im not too far from your timeline but didnt request priority mailing of the passport.

Do you recall which processing center your app was completed by?
it was code 10, so Boston I believe
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Old Aug 30, 2023 | 7:52 pm
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Data point for anyone interested

44 days from Received to Approved, standard processing time, was quoted 10-13 weeks when applied. Passport location was Aurora CO
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Old Aug 31, 2023 | 9:47 pm
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i have to travel within 2 weeks, but not sure i can wait in chicago after my appt
Not sure what you want.
Hire an expediter for $500 if you can't wait.
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Old Sep 3, 2023 | 7:37 pm
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Data point - 10 days from the date they received it until it arrived at my house. Amazingly fast. Passport renewal with name change. Paid the extra $60 for expedited. Mailed to Philly office
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Old Sep 4, 2023 | 2:39 pm
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Online Status Check

If they send a letter due to a problem with the application, will that be documented on the online system, such as letter mailed or something? Or will it continue to show In Process?
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Old Sep 7, 2023 | 9:48 am
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15 Aug 2023 USPS NDA Philadelphia Expedited Passport Book Expedited Processing.
Quoted 7-9 week processing time with expedited fees enclosed $220.
Assigned to 45, National Passport Center
16 Aug 2023 In Process. Checking website daily.
Do any of you have any insight into the timeline for this location?
** Update ***
Status: Approved 9/13/2023

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Old Sep 8, 2023 | 1:38 am
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Renewal Time - US Embassy Bangkok, Thailand.

I wanted to share that I just renewed my US passport through the US Embassy in Thailand. New passport arrived back today - 5 weeks after I mailed in completed DS-82 renewal application form and other documents. There is no expedited service when applying for US passport overseas. Given the possible wait times I read about in the United States, I am quite happy with this result.
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Old Sep 9, 2023 | 6:46 am
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Renewal application mailed to Irving: 25-July
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Regular service, not expedited
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Old Sep 11, 2023 | 6:25 pm
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Times are improving!

My application was received at the New Orleans location Aug 18, check cleared Aug 21.
Passport was mailed to me Sept 8, and I received it Sept 11.
I had done expedited, with USPS priority shipping of the passport. Renewal with name change.
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Old Sep 21, 2023 | 7:31 pm
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My passport was expiring in February 2024, but I was concerned about waiting until then...my mom lives in Germany, and is 86 so I may have to travel at any minute.

So, having just returned visiting her in early September, I sent out my passport (Expedited and Express return...around $210 total) using USPS Priority Mail ($9.xx)...I went to ship via Fedex, but they don't ship to P.O. Boxes...good to know. This was September 8th.

Today, in my mail box, 13 days later was a brand new passport!

A very pleasant surprise.

PS. I received my expired, old passport today, September 27, via USPS in a plain brown envelop. Man am I losing my hair!

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Old Sep 25, 2023 | 1:18 am
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Applied for adult renewal at US Embassy in Bangkok.
Application status says in process and received as of 9/7.

Any idea how fast it'll get to me in Bangkok?
My Thailand visa ends on October 22.
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