June 8th applied in person at Robbinsdale, MN with spouse for 2 minor children's passport book renewals with routine service. Included non-expired passport books with paperwork. Flights are booked for 7/31.
June 14th checks cashed.
June 19th noticed they had locator numbers and status is "processing".
June 28th received an email stating passports are processing.
July 1st received an email stating "We have finished processing your passport, and it has been printed. You requested delivery by regular mail. Passport Agencies use Priority Mail. This means you should receive your passport on or about 07/07/2019."
July 3rd both passports arrive by U.S. mail. Entire process with routine service took 3.5 weeks, 18 business days.

June 13 Applied at local clerk office in person with routine service for renewal of kids passports.
June 18 Got email with locator numbers
June 19 checks cached

Have travel on July 21 . Will wait until July 05 , if still no updates . will call up and expedite

May 20 - mailed renewal application to PA, regular processing (online estimates showing 4-6 weeks processing time). Travel booked for July 5.
May 22 - application arrived at facility
May 24 - check processed
May 25 - received email with locator number
June 17 - called to ask for update. Told that processing times are taking 6-8 weeks and received recommendation to expedite. Paid extra $76 to expedite processing and for overnight shipping.
June 20 - checked online status using locator number. Still showing "routine service" and credit card had yet to be charged the expedited fee. Called again. Was told that expedited status can take up to 8 days to show up in the system. Was told that they were aware of my travel on 7/5 but earliest they could do anything else would be at 8 am ET on 7/2. If I had not received my passport, I could call again and my application could be put to the front of the line due to "urgent travel."
June 26 - received email stating that passport had finished processing, was being printed, and passport would be delivered on or before 6/29.
June 27 - received passport in mail.

Long story short, I thought routine service would be fine given that when I applied in May it was showing 4-6 weeks processing time online. That update online subsequently changed (as confirmed on this message board as well as reps on the phone). Perhaps processing times vary based on where you are required to send your request, but on the East Coast, I think it's legit taking 6-8 weeks. Expedite as necessary to avoid additional stress.

Meanwhile, expedited (renewal) application for passport for minor - 6/14. Received 6/29 (notification of shipping on 6/27 with 7/2 expected arrival).

06/10 - Applied kids' passports in person in Seattle

Just checked today, the check is NOT even cashed! Does it mean the processing not started at all (or even worse maybe the whole packet is still not transitioned to right department?)
Have travel booked 08/03 however need 2 weeks for visa. How should we expedite?

Thanks for the suggestion! It turned out that the checks were already cleared, somehow they are shown as "DIRECT DEBIT PASSPORTSERVIC..." in my bank statement so overlooked it. I did got new passports yesterday. Below is the timeline.

• 06/10 Applied in Seattle
• 06/18 Checks cleared
• 07/09 Email update of "We have finished processing your passport, and it has been printed."
• 07/10 Email update of priority mail delivery
• 07/12 passports received.

We realized that in order to apply visa (to another country), the info on old visa on old passports are also needed. So we need the old passports actually (lesson learned: always take a photo of passport/visa pages for old passports).

Usually how soon will old passport be received after the new one?

June 1st - Mailed application with routine processing and old passport via USPS Priority Mail
June 3rd - Application received
June 5th - Check cashed & am able to monitor status online
July 1st - Received e-mail application is processing
July 2nd - Received e-mail application is finished processing and passport has been printed
July 6th - Received passport, as of July 13th I haven't received my old passport yet

Do you have any update on this?

I'm more than a little bit nervous at this point, but I was speaking to a friend of mine who works for a Congressman and they said to wait until a week before calling to expedite. We leave July 29th for our honeymoon. Mine is a simple name change, with no fees associated so I do not have any checks to see if they are cashed. We both did routine service.

My name change:
June 16th: mailed application
June 19th: application delivered
June 20 got email with locator number

My husbands renewal:
June 20: applied at USPS office
June 22: application delivered
June 24th: money order cashed
June 25th: got email with locator number

My daughter's new passport (last month) came with the old one in the same envelope.

For my past renewals it has come within a couple of days.

July 11 - Called up to see whats going on and told rep that i have travel coming up in 10 days . Rep says current processing times are taking long time . So i had to expedite and also requested to put a note about my travel plans . Payed via credit card.
July 15 - credit charged and status updated with passport being printed
July 17 - Printed and got tracking number
July 18 - passports got delivered.

Always had our passports got renewed under 3 weeks with routine processing .But this time , even after 4 weeks no status change.

Had to expedite passport renewal . posted timelines below .

Data for non-expired standard renewal:
July 10 - Mailed from local Post Office
July 11 - Delivered to Philadelphia Processing Center
July 15 - Check cashed
July 29 - New passport received