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)
Apr 3, 2019 | 7:49 am
#331
Join Date: Apr 2019
Posts: 1
It Arrived!
March 23rd - Sent Priority Mail - Routine Application
March 25th - Arrived at Passport Office PO BOX
March 26th - Check Cleared
March 27th - Found this forum and realized that my passport had a very short window of making it to me for my April 25th flight!!
March 27th - Called the Passport Office with my locator number to change it to expedited
April 1st - Received notice that my card was charged the 60.00 expediting fee
April 3rd - Received an e-mail with my passport tracking number expected arrival date 04/08/2019!!
April 5th - Received my passport!
Total time from routine changed to expedited to received - 13 days!!
March 25th - Arrived at Passport Office PO BOX
March 26th - Check Cleared
March 27th - Found this forum and realized that my passport had a very short window of making it to me for my April 25th flight!!
March 27th - Called the Passport Office with my locator number to change it to expedited
April 1st - Received notice that my card was charged the 60.00 expediting fee
April 3rd - Received an e-mail with my passport tracking number expected arrival date 04/08/2019!!
April 5th - Received my passport!
Total time from routine changed to expedited to received - 13 days!!
Last edited by ibeetraveling; Apr 5, 2019 at 11:58 am Reason: UPDATE
Apr 8, 2019 | 11:32 am
#332
Join Date: Apr 2019
Posts: 2
My fiance and I applied for both a passport and passport card. No expedited service. Total time to receive all related items was four weeks.
Feb 2 - Applied in person at local USPS passport site.
Feb 27 - Email sent that processing was complete and passports had been shipped.
March 1 - Received both passports and passport cards.
Feb 2 - Applied in person at local USPS passport site.
Feb 27 - Email sent that processing was complete and passports had been shipped.
March 1 - Received both passports and passport cards.
Apr 9, 2019 | 11:55 am
#333
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Poland
Posts: 869
March 21 - Applied via local passport site (not a USPS location and required driving about 45 minutes away to one that didn't require appts) - Told them that we needed them for travel on April 15th. I believe this facility charged for priority mailing.
March 29 - Received notice when checking the status online that it would arrive by April 6th
April 1st - Received 3 new passports, did NOT pay for expedited
April 6th & 8th - Received birth certificates and expired passports back
Another adult had a different experience:
March 27th - Mailed in a passport renewal and listed May 4th as the deadline for when it was needed. Not mailed via priority.
April 5th - Still showed as processing without an expected date to receive it
April 5th - Paid to have it expedited
April 6th - Received email saying that it was being processed without expedited service
April 8th - Verified with the passport office that it is listed as expedited in their system even though we can't view that terminology on our end
April 9th - Finally shows in the system as expedited, but still doesn't have a date for arrival
Edit: April 11th - Estimated delivery of April 13th via Express mail!
March 29 - Received notice when checking the status online that it would arrive by April 6th
April 1st - Received 3 new passports, did NOT pay for expedited
April 6th & 8th - Received birth certificates and expired passports back
Another adult had a different experience:
March 27th - Mailed in a passport renewal and listed May 4th as the deadline for when it was needed. Not mailed via priority.
April 5th - Still showed as processing without an expected date to receive it
April 5th - Paid to have it expedited
April 6th - Received email saying that it was being processed without expedited service
April 8th - Verified with the passport office that it is listed as expedited in their system even though we can't view that terminology on our end
April 9th - Finally shows in the system as expedited, but still doesn't have a date for arrival
Edit: April 11th - Estimated delivery of April 13th via Express mail!
Last edited by TravelingNomads; Apr 11, 2019 at 7:53 am
Apr 11, 2019 | 6:07 am
#334
Join Date: Mar 2017
Posts: 10
UPDATE:
I renewed my own a few months back and updated the page then....now I'm going to provide info for my husband's renewal. We travel on Sunday, April 28th and did routine based on the info from this site---I recognize this is a gamble! This site has been so valuable and I want to help others with up to date info:
Mailed from Buffalo, NY USPS Priority - Saturday, March 16th, arrived at Passport location Tuesday March 19th
Check cleared Thursday March 21st ....
Logged into passport dot gov and locator number was assigned this morning. (Thursday march 21st, the same day the check cleared)
Stay tuned~
Mailed from Buffalo, NY USPS Priority - Saturday, March 16th, arrived at Passport location Tuesday March 19th
Check cleared Thursday March 21st ....
Logged into passport dot gov and locator number was assigned this morning. (Thursday march 21st, the same day the check cleared)
Stay tuned~
Your passport application is in the final processing stages.
When you applied, you requested Routine Service.
This means you should receive your passport on or about 04/17/2019.
Looks like the site updates overnight...I was getting really worried as we fly out on April 25th....looks like we are going to be ok...I'll keep updating! This site is awesome---thank you to all who take the time to post!
Apr 11, 2019 | 2:40 pm
#335
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: DFW
Posts: 1,149
Passport Renewal
April 1st: Shipped via 2 day UPS
April 2nd: Arrived (live in Dallas and shipping to Dallas)
April 11th: Checked status and states it is done and being mailed priority back to me (I requested and paid for the priority
April 14th: expected arrival day
April 1st: Shipped via 2 day UPS
April 2nd: Arrived (live in Dallas and shipping to Dallas)
April 11th: Checked status and states it is done and being mailed priority back to me (I requested and paid for the priority
April 14th: expected arrival day
Apr 12, 2019 | 6:17 am
#336
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 4
Expedited renewal shipped via priority mail express
April 3rd - shipped to Philadelphia
April 4th - received
April 5th - website status shows in process
April 6th - check cleared
April 9th - email received that my passport is in process
April 10th - email received that my passport has been printed and shipped
April 11th - received new passport
Really impressed with the fast turnaround
April 3rd - shipped to Philadelphia
April 4th - received
April 5th - website status shows in process
April 6th - check cleared
April 9th - email received that my passport is in process
April 10th - email received that my passport has been printed and shipped
April 11th - received new passport
Really impressed with the fast turnaround
Apr 15, 2019 | 5:23 pm
#337
Join Date: Mar 2017
Posts: 10
I renewed my own a few months back and updated the page then....now I'm going to provide info for my husband's renewal. We travel on Sunday, April 28th and did routine based on the info from this site---I recognize this is a gamble! This site has been so valuable and I want to help others with up to date info:
Mailed from Buffalo, NY USPS Priority - Saturday, March 16th, arrived at Passport location Tuesday March 19th
Check cleared Thursday March 21st ....
Logged into passport dot gov and locator number was assigned this morning. (Thursday march 21st, the same day the check cleared)
Stay tuned~
I've been checking the passport status daily...last time was 11pm last night----it was still just showing 'processing'....this morning though at 8am eastern:
Your passport application is in the final processing stages.
When you applied, you requested Routine Service.
This means you should receive your passport on or about 04/17/2019.
Looks like the site updates overnight...I was getting really worried as we fly out on April 25th....looks like we are going to be ok...I'll keep updating! This site is awesome---thank you to all who take the time to post!
Passport arrived in mailbox on Saturday, April 13th.
...moral of the story? March is HIGH season for renewals. If you have less than 5 weeks--I'd expedite.
Mailed from Buffalo, NY USPS Priority - Saturday, March 16th, arrived at Passport location Tuesday March 19th
Check cleared Thursday March 21st ....
Logged into passport dot gov and locator number was assigned this morning. (Thursday march 21st, the same day the check cleared)
Stay tuned~
I've been checking the passport status daily...last time was 11pm last night----it was still just showing 'processing'....this morning though at 8am eastern:
Your passport application is in the final processing stages.
When you applied, you requested Routine Service.
This means you should receive your passport on or about 04/17/2019.
Looks like the site updates overnight...I was getting really worried as we fly out on April 25th....looks like we are going to be ok...I'll keep updating! This site is awesome---thank you to all who take the time to post!
Passport arrived in mailbox on Saturday, April 13th.
...moral of the story? March is HIGH season for renewals. If you have less than 5 weeks--I'd expedite.
Apr 17, 2019 | 2:16 pm
#338
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: North America
Programs: FT Member #8119 F & J Free Agent
Posts: 6,557
Regular Renewal Service - 52 page Book
Regular Renewal Service - 52 page Book
03/14/19: Delivered to US Passport Processing Center (PA)
03/15/19: In Process
03/18/19: Check converted
04/12/19: Email 12:45 am "Finished processing passport and it as been printed"
04/12/19: Email 2:45 am "Received tracking number" "Expect delivery on or before 04/18/19 (Coming from Tucson}
04/16/19: Passport delivered
Last edited by planeluvr; Apr 17, 2019 at 4:42 pm
Apr 23, 2019 | 7:00 am
#339
Guest
Join Date: Apr 2015
Posts: 141
My check was converted, too.
Regular Renewal Service - 52 page Book
03/14/19: Delivered to US Passport Processing Center (PA)
03/15/19: In Process
03/18/19: Check converted
04/12/19: Email 12:45 am "Finished processing passport and it as been printed"
04/12/19: Email 2:45 am "Received tracking number" "Expect delivery on or before 04/18/19 (Coming from Tucson}
04/16/19: Passport delivered
Regular Renewal Service - 52 page Book
03/14/19: Delivered to US Passport Processing Center (PA)
03/15/19: In Process
03/18/19: Check converted
04/12/19: Email 12:45 am "Finished processing passport and it as been printed"
04/12/19: Email 2:45 am "Received tracking number" "Expect delivery on or before 04/18/19 (Coming from Tucson}
04/16/19: Passport delivered
Apr 30, 2019 | 6:31 pm
#340
Moderator, Omni, Omni/PR, Omni/Games, FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Between DCA and IAD
Programs: UA 1K MM; Hilton Diamond
Posts: 72,597
Hoping my wife's comes soon. She opted for regular renewal on roughly that same timeframe, with her next scheduled international trip on May 17.
Still says "processing" on the State Department website, and says to call if within 2 weeks of travel, so we're getting close to that point. It was delivered to PA around 3/18 IIRC.
We opted for the regular service to avoid the extra fees. My expedited renewal in December was in under 10 days (I had late January travel and wanted to play it safe).
Still says "processing" on the State Department website, and says to call if within 2 weeks of travel, so we're getting close to that point. It was delivered to PA around 3/18 IIRC.
We opted for the regular service to avoid the extra fees. My expedited renewal in December was in under 10 days (I had late January travel and wanted to play it safe).
May 1, 2019 | 12:59 pm
#341
Join Date: May 2019
Posts: 2
Is there a difference between renewal applications and new ones? I would assume renewals would be easier, but it seems like most take a long time as well. I had to submit a new request because my pp expired. I still had to send off my old one, which I thought was weird. Anyway, tomorrow would make 3 weeks exactly (15 days) after the State Dept received my application and gave me an application locator number. I travel next week Friday, it's on a closed loop cruise to the Bahamas so I don't necessarily need the passport, but it would be nice to have it by then.
May 2, 2019 | 3:21 pm
#342
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: SIN / CNX / SFO
Programs: UA GS, SQ PPS, Hyatt Globalist, Marriott Titanium, Hilton Diamond, Accor Gold
Posts: 1,253
8am: Arrived at Washington DC Passport Agency
8:30am: Renewal application Submitted
2:30pm: Arrived to pick-up (slip said 2pm)
3:30pm: New passport and old cancelled passport in hand
Overall, I was quite impressed and it was perhaps the most positive experience I've ever had interacting with a US government agency.
8:30am: Renewal application Submitted
2:30pm: Arrived to pick-up (slip said 2pm)
3:30pm: New passport and old cancelled passport in hand
Overall, I was quite impressed and it was perhaps the most positive experience I've ever had interacting with a US government agency.
May 2, 2019 | 6:09 pm
#344
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: ATL
Programs: DL Scattered Smothered Covered Medallion, Some hotel & car stuff, Kroger Plus Card
Posts: 10,801
8am: Arrived at Washington DC Passport Agency
8:30am: Renewal application Submitted
2:30pm: Arrived to pick-up (slip said 2pm)
3:30pm: New passport and old cancelled passport in hand
Overall, I was quite impressed and it was perhaps the most positive experience I've ever had interacting with a US government agency.
8:30am: Renewal application Submitted
2:30pm: Arrived to pick-up (slip said 2pm)
3:30pm: New passport and old cancelled passport in hand
Overall, I was quite impressed and it was perhaps the most positive experience I've ever had interacting with a US government agency.
May 2, 2019 | 9:13 pm
#345
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: The Indo Jungle
Programs: AA EXP, IHG Spire
Posts: 1,323