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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)
Jul 23, 2020 | 4:59 pm
#646
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David
Jul 23, 2020 | 5:18 pm
#647
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https://travel.state.gov/content/tra...tatistics.html
Jul 23, 2020 | 5:48 pm
#648
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Jul 23, 2020 | 8:15 pm
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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
Jul 24, 2020 | 2:08 am
#651
Join Date: Jul 2020
Posts: 16
Thanks - the jumps of two years of ~3M passport issued from FY2015 to FY2017 are impressive.
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
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
Jul 24, 2020 | 11:07 am
#652
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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.
Jul 24, 2020 | 2:49 pm
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My passport expires in October - I guess I will wait until then to try to do an expedited renewal.
Jul 25, 2020 | 10:31 am
#654
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 2
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"
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"
Jul 27, 2020 | 10:37 am
#655
Join Date: Jan 2015
Posts: 308
Mine also expires in Oct but I have international travel planned through the first week of the month...hoping nothing delays...
Jul 27, 2020 | 12:59 pm
#656
Join Date: Jul 2020
Posts: 16
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"
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"
Jul 27, 2020 | 6:01 pm
#659
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Posts: 227
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.
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.
Last edited by LAX2Anywhere; Jul 28, 2020 at 2:03 pm Reason: Additional Information
Jul 30, 2020 | 1:24 pm
#660
Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 659
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.
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.