At most US passport agencies, walking in with a ticketed itinerary that shows you leaving within two weeks, and claiming so, has ordinarily worked even if the applicant hasn't booked a specific appointment time.

That is what I was saying.

I wanted to see if they accept applications 4 weeks before the date of travel - not 2 weeks. I don't want to wait till 2 weeks.

I think what's being suggested is that you create an emergency, i.e., book a fully refundable ticket for two weeks out, print out your receipt, proceed immediately to the passport office, apply for the passport, go home, cancel refundable ticket.

Ahhhh - brain freeze on my part I guess. Thanks!

Passport times? June 2017
 

Anyone recently renew their passport? How long did normal processing take? I mailed it 2 day mail but did not expedite passport or mailing back.

I looked at 2 other recent threads and the info isn't recent. Also, do not live near a passport agency.

Thanks!

18 days door to door with routine processing.
They told me that once the passport is in the system, it's possible to upgrade it to expedited processing.

There was a mistake on my application - what I get for letting Chrome fill in the form fields automatically - but they fixed it over the phone. All three times I called there was no wait to get a human being on the line.

And I even took a decent passport photo for once.

My mother was flying out next day, found out passport was expired. She went to a passport agency and they delivered her a fresh passport next morning. Didn't even realize that was possible.

Thanks for the update!

About 5 years ago, I had to renew my Mom's passport. I sent it in with about 6 weeks before we were going to leave (I had the date of the trip on application). I started getting worried about 4 weeks out and called them up. They said it would not be done by the time we had to leave but promptly gave me the option to expedite it. I gave them a credit card number and magically, the passport was quickly done and sent back to us. We do not live near a passport agency so that was not an option.

Yes.
 

Normal processing took approximately two weeks. Application submitted at post office 6/15. Check cashed by State Dept. 6/20. New passport received by priority mail 7/1.

Thank you. Great news!

Have you received your passport?

Just some datapoints for my passport renewal:

This is for Regular Service
7/12: Mailed DS-82 via Priority Mail
7/14: Delivered to US Passport Processing Center
7/17: Email received saying my passport being processed
7/21: Status online changed to "Final processing"
7/27: Received new passport

So less than 2 weeks door-to-door using regular service
Quite impressed ^

Just got my passport in 13 days!

It is my first passport. I went to the US Post and paid for regular service.
Can't believe that they are so fast because it showed 6 to 8 weeks.

Thank you. ^

Regular passport application for a Swedish national during peak summer application period took 3-4 days from stopping into a regional passport application office until the Swedish passport was back for delivery/pick-up.

Regular passport application for a US citizen during peak summer application period took no less than 9-10 days from stopping into a regional passport application office until the passport was back for delivery/pick-up and more commonly took substantially more than 9-10 days.

Applicant's cost of regular passport application is much lower in Sweden than in the US, and that is despite the passport quality and used technology being higher with Swedish passports than US passports. While the USG usually outperforms its stated times by a rather wide margin, we've got a lot of room for improvement in cost/price, quality and time; unfortunately, for US passports, applicants should expect it to cost substantially more but still take substantially longer than it takes for various other countries to perform the service.