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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 doesn’t 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 doesn’t match the list above, please add or correct.
Current US passport wait? (Merged Threads)
#931
Join Date: Feb 2021
Posts: 9
Here's my situation:
Jan 21st - usps appointment 1st time application for my baby - I'm in California and my application went to Philly
Jan 29th - In process
Feb 16th - contacted state rep at 11am, filled out privacy form and sent back at 2pm
Feb 17th - didn't receive any email from the state rep letting me know if they received my form or what, so I called their office and they told that they had already sent my request to the passport agency
Today is feb 19th and nothing has changed, status is still in process
I'm traveling internationally on March 3rd, I'll be moving to Brazil, and my job there starts on March 8th
on Feb 23rd I have an important appointment at a brazilian consulate to naturalize my daughter and I'll need her birth certificate, but it's with her passport application, I'm very desperate, and the kicker - according to brazilian law I can only naturalize her in the country where she was born, or in brazil when she turns 18, awesome
Jan 21st - usps appointment 1st time application for my baby - I'm in California and my application went to Philly
Jan 29th - In process
Feb 16th - contacted state rep at 11am, filled out privacy form and sent back at 2pm
Feb 17th - didn't receive any email from the state rep letting me know if they received my form or what, so I called their office and they told that they had already sent my request to the passport agency
Today is feb 19th and nothing has changed, status is still in process
I'm traveling internationally on March 3rd, I'll be moving to Brazil, and my job there starts on March 8th
on Feb 23rd I have an important appointment at a brazilian consulate to naturalize my daughter and I'll need her birth certificate, but it's with her passport application, I'm very desperate, and the kicker - according to brazilian law I can only naturalize her in the country where she was born, or in brazil when she turns 18, awesome
#932
Join Date: Feb 2020
Posts: 95
Here's my situation:
Jan 21st - usps appointment 1st time application for my baby - I'm in California and my application went to Philly
Jan 29th - In process
Feb 16th - contacted state rep at 11am, filled out privacy form and sent back at 2pm
Feb 17th - didn't receive any email from the state rep letting me know if they received my form or what, so I called their office and they told that they had already sent my request to the passport agency
Today is feb 19th and nothing has changed, status is still in process
I'm traveling internationally on March 3rd, I'll be moving to Brazil, and my job there starts on March 8th
on Feb 23rd I have an important appointment at a brazilian consulate to naturalize my daughter and I'll need her birth certificate, but it's with her passport application, I'm very desperate, and the kicker - according to brazilian law I can only naturalize her in the country where she was born, or in brazil when she turns 18, awesome
Jan 21st - usps appointment 1st time application for my baby - I'm in California and my application went to Philly
Jan 29th - In process
Feb 16th - contacted state rep at 11am, filled out privacy form and sent back at 2pm
Feb 17th - didn't receive any email from the state rep letting me know if they received my form or what, so I called their office and they told that they had already sent my request to the passport agency
Today is feb 19th and nothing has changed, status is still in process
I'm traveling internationally on March 3rd, I'll be moving to Brazil, and my job there starts on March 8th
on Feb 23rd I have an important appointment at a brazilian consulate to naturalize my daughter and I'll need her birth certificate, but it's with her passport application, I'm very desperate, and the kicker - according to brazilian law I can only naturalize her in the country where she was born, or in brazil when she turns 18, awesome
Last edited by Seattleguy10; Feb 19, 2021 at 8:34 am
#933
Join Date: Feb 2021
Posts: 7
I had to send in a DS-86 form that was received on February 18th and they called me today the 19th.They said i should expect a new one sent out in a week via UPS. I'm hoping that since they called me that they are going to turn my non- receipt passport around fairly quick and issue me another one.
#934
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 280
On Feb 23rd I have an important appointment at a brazilian consulate to naturalize my daughter and I'll need her birth certificate, but it's with her passport application, I'm very desperate, and the kicker - according to brazilian law I can only naturalize her in the country where she was born, or in brazil when she turns 18, awesome
Last edited by crescatfloreat; Feb 19, 2021 at 12:49 pm Reason: Spelling
#935
Join Date: Feb 2021
Posts: 9
It is not likely that get the birth certificate on time. The send the new passport first then a few days after they send the birth certificate and any other supporting documents. I would recommend applying for an expedited birth certificate if your baby was born in the US.
#936
Join Date: Feb 2021
Posts: 9
Yes, I thought of that as well, and I ordered 2 extra copies of her birth certificate but their website states that it may take up to 6 weeks, so that was a dead end, I thought getting the state rep's help would speed things up but it made no difference so far
#937
Join Date: Feb 2020
Posts: 95
you might get the passport next week but the supporting documents are sent separately via first class mail. You did the right thing by ordering more copies of the birth certificate.
#938
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 280
Ouch. Is in-person not an option?
#940
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Atl
Programs: Delta DM 3+MM
Posts: 325
Los Angeles Passport Agency (state.gov). There are regional passport agencies and this is in Los Angeles. Go to Los Angeles Passport Agency webpage and there are specific instructions and a number for you to call. Good luck.
#941
Join Date: Feb 2021
Posts: 7
I had to send in a DS-86 form that was received on February 18th and they called me today the 19th.They said i should expect a new one sent out in a week via UPS. I'm hoping that since they called me that they are going to turn my non- receipt passport around fairly quick and issue me another one.
#944
Join Date: Feb 2020
Posts: 95
Overnight delivery
Just out of curiosity, I received an email that my son’s passport was approved ( Saturday at 10 pm). Does this mean it was approved Friday? And how do they ship it if I requested expedited shipping? USPS or UPS? Thanks
#945
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: MKE, formerly the closest FT-er to LAX
Programs: Marriott Gold. Usually WN or DL if in the air.
Posts: 704
Tue 1/19 Mailed via Priority Mail Express
Wed 1/20 USPS delivered in Philadelphia
Wed 1/27 Check cashed
Wed 1/27 Online status available as "In Process"
Fri 2/12 Email received stating status is "In Process"
Fri 2/12 Date of issuance listed on new passport book and card
Tue 2/16 Online status changed to "Approved" and email received
Tue 2/16 Email received with USPS Priority Mail Express tracking number
Wed 2/17 New passport book mailed from Tucson, AZ
Mon 2/22 New passport card received by regular mail
Tue 2/23 New passport book received
Still waiting for return of old book
Last edited by mizzou65201; Feb 24, 2021 at 2:48 pm Reason: Edit: updated w date of passpor t book received