This data may indicate that they have segmented their workforce into two groups. It would be also good to know how many passports per year they've been producing to get an idea if the number awaiting issuance ever gets below 1M.

David

Here is the site that it includes data from past years. It states that last year, they processed "20,690,491 (includes 2,895,514 passport cards)." What are your thoughts regarding what this means for the current numbers?

https://travel.state.gov/content/tra...tatistics.html

This might help:

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...9bbc3979ab.jpg

Collated from info here: https://travel.state.gov/content/tra...tatistics.html

Yep! They clipped off the top-left corner.

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...7269220020.jpg

Thanks - the jumps of two years of ~3M passport issued from FY2015 to FY2017 are impressive.

Assuming there's no similar jump in 2020, State's processing of passports and passport cards on a "regular" recent year of issuing 21M would need to be ~1.75M per average month or 404K per average week (12 months/year or 52 weeks/year).

While they're behind, much of the "progress" for folks who submitted earlier this year will be driven by State maintaining first-in-first-out processing without having to deal with expedited passports jamming up the workflow.

Might be interesting as well if folks who've submitted recently are seeing any progress in their applications/renewals vs. the multi-month waits that occurred for submittals reported here for mid-March submissions.

David

My personal concern is how they treat applications from out of state. Our applications were made in Texas, but because of the fact that Dallas isn't even in Phase 1 yet they have been shipped to Charleston SC for processing. Just hope that doesn't put us at the back of the queue (17 1/2 weeks now and counting).

I'm among the 143K who submitted last week, so we'll see. I had figured I wouldn't see anything before the end of the year, but if these numbers continue (~200K/week with ~1.3M backlog), I might have something back within two months or so.

My passport expires in October - I guess I will wait until then to try to do an expedited renewal.

This thread has been super helpful to me so thought I'd add my data point:

March 30: Submitted new minor passport application in person at USPS.
July 21: Email update - in process
July 22: Passport approved and shipped.
July 25: Passport arrived.

Throughout May - July I did not get any updates and the status checker said "in process"

Have you seen something to make you think they'll start expediting them later this year?

Mine also expires in Oct but I have international travel planned through the first week of the month...hoping nothing delays...

Where did you apply from?

I applied by mail on 03/27/20 from San Francisco, check cleared on 03/30th. statut in process since 04/27.....Still waiting. Sal.

They cash everyone’s check immediately regardless.

Update ...

Submitted at my local Post Office in mid-March (I think the 13th)
Received an email on June 5th that says:Application Status: In Process
Online status has been showing “In Process” since then.
Today I got an email saying “Shipped” (haven’t got the “Approved” email yet) ... expected delivery in about a week.

Update: About 20 hours after the "Shipped" email, I got the "Approved" email - seems backwards, but that seems to be way it is working.

The new passport statistics for the week have come out. Last week, it says that they received 143000 passports, 206000 passports were issued, and that 1.15 million passports are still awaiting issuance.

1. I am curious about why it is still less than the 274 000 passports that were issued two weeks ago. Was that just an amazing week? I am hopeful as it is a higher amount than last week, but am still curious about this.