applied oct 5,
delivered yesterday, oct 23.

email said oct 25, but got here early. Expedited service at postal center in Northern California.

needed them before thanksgiving as outside chance of international trip, but with Covid increasing, not likely.

Just got the email that my passport was approved 10/30. Email says it'll arrive 11/4.

Correction, did not actually pick up mail, but turned out it was for my wife and kids. They were either new or lost, so sent to La. Just got mine today and was through NH.

Sent passport to TX on September 3. It took about a week to get there. Received new passport and card on November 13.

info was received 9/11, 5 weeks ago i paid for expedited but heard nothing

called today and they said theres no note on about travel so i gave them my dec 10 travel date and she didnt give me any assurances but since thats even the 12 week frame i sure hope i get it by then. getting tad nervous. has anyone that applied in sept not gotten it in 12 weeks.

Original "hole punched" passport arrived yesterday, with a Tucson zip code postage meter mark.

does' your application is at a point where you cannot even expedite it. mean anything?

info received by them 9/11. i called oct 6 to expedite. i called nov 18 to expedite, and again today. this is the 1st time someone said its not in a position to be expedited. but she cannot tell me if any other dates it was 'in a position not to be expedited

she did say it was coming from SC so at least i know that much but i have my trip in 2 weeks which will be at the 12 week deadline so its close and ddriving me nuts

well last night 9pm i got notified ill have passport on the 30th. yippee. so 9/11 to nov 30 if it arrives then. unsure if was my begging monday on the call or just timing

edit: now dec 2. ugh. they are torturing me. just 8 days to spare before the trip

Question for you all . . . I have a nine year-old daughter whose passport expires on 2/28.

We plan to take a trip over the holidays, departing around Christmas, to Colombia or Brazil. We'll be back by around 1/1. Is it okay to wait until then to renew her passport, or should we get it renewed now using an expeditor?

Thank you!

Get it renewed like yesterday, on an expedited basis however best you can. Using a passport to travel abroad when it has less than 3 months or at times even six months of validity remaining can be a problem when wanting to go somewhere abroad.

I'd rather not be looking into a visit to Smith Street around Christmas.

Thank you!

That is an interesting question. I am not sure that Brazil currently in fact has any 3 or 6 month validity issue for US passports currently. It would seem from searching around the web that no one does. There are plenty of sites which list 6 months as their authoritative number HOWEVER every single one of them is either a year old and many scraping information which is 4-10 years old, which in itself was flawed? Why? Well until 2019 US citizens needed to get a visa to travel to Brazil, however Bolsanaro ended that last year, when US citizens received visas they often received 5 or 10 year visas, and quite frankly you could essentially travel to Brazil up until the last day of your passport, as long as you had a valid visa, if fact they would not ISSUE you a visa unless you had at least 6 months left of your passport - so all info is flawed and out of context. So no, it is not so clear........... with different Brazilian missions even having different things posted on their sites. I would note that the Timatic tools that I just tried (slow day) have no issue even when putting in your passport expiration date(s).So I would strongly suggest contacting the Embassy in Washington (not the Consulates) and getting them to confirm. I have a strong feeling that it is 3 months and you would be under the wire.

As for Colombia, AFAIK Colombia has never had a 3 or 6 month rule, whether enforced of not.

Don't you have to get a visa for Brazil?

And in some cases they want your passport which they would return with your visa?

No.

Take a look at the following thread in the Brazil forum: