I applied for renewing my kids passport on Apr 9 with regular service. Our flight is June 14. Will we make it?

yes it should be more than enough time

Hope you are right.. This "official" 10-12 week timeline is quite scary, and our flight is in 9 weeks.. passportwaitingtime.com also shows less than 30 days as average processing times. So confusing!

Based on your travel date you have more than enough time. but if for some reason you need them sooner you can contact your senator or congressional representative, they have a constituent services office that deals only with passports, a lot of people have done that and they get their passports in a matter of days, some as soon as 24 hours.

I can attest to this. I had to get my passport by the end of March for some travel plans. I was waiting around ~1 month back in February before I contacted my senator. They have staff that directly reach out to the agency and I got it mailed back within 48 hours of contacting them.

The staff providing constituent services can indeed get results like that.

US Senators and US House members do have constituent services offices, but I doubt that most (if any) of them deal only with passports. Rather, dealing with passports is one of the collection of things that are part of the constituent services provided by staff; and so they should be able to handle constituents' struggles with passports since it's one of the things that repeatedly come up as part of their job.

We applied for our kids on 3/4 at the USPS site. We mailed our renewals on the same day from the same post office. Kids' showed as In Progress as of 3/15. We got the approved emails for the kids passports on 3/30 and the passports were delivered on 4/2.

Ours on the other hand show are in progress as of 3/23 with no updates since. Calling the senator did not help at all unless we pay for expedited.

Tried that. Yes. The senator's office did say they have a dedicated person who deals with this. It still took them 3 business days to get back and then they said we can give them a CC or call the agency, talk to someone and pay the expedited charge
Problem is even then, they do NOT guarantee anything for up to 20 more day after you expedited. It may come early, it may take 20 days.

We're still waiting.

interesting, this is the first time I hear of a senator's constituent services office asking the constituent to pay in order to speed up the process, usually they exercise the influence that they have over federal agencies to speed things up

Here's my experience,
Applied: 3/15
In Process: 3/19
Called DOS on 4/8 noon time, on hold for ~ 50 min, then requested & paid to expedite. My CC was charged in the afternoon & status changed to expedited processing. Then next day, Passport status showed as "Shipped" with USPS Priority mail tracking#. I received my new PP today (4/12) along with NC in separate manila folder so looks like, expediting service was worth it.

Passport Anxiety
 

So I applied for my passport 01/15/2021, they did not process it until March 22, 2021. It's in New Hampshire. My trip is scheduled for 04/29/21 I called today to have it expedited and 1-2 day shipping. It came off my credit card within an hour. That was early afternoon. Had a weird feeling and just called back tonight that its an question mark/pending alert, but it is in the hands of someone else. They explained it had no notation, and to call back tomorrow to see if it clears. I have nothing on my background, credit anything like that..I'm in pure panic because now I'm afraid it won't arrive in time. What else can I do? I emailed two state representatives and just got an automated response. 16 days until I leave.

They gave me the same status of it can take up-to 10 - 12 weeks to process and if we needed it sooner, they can call in the expedition by using our CC or we can call them and once we pay, we need to call the senator's office to see if they can get the passports released in a day or two v/s standard 20 business days line.

SMH!! Yes still waiting back to hear from the sentors office..now it's just a waiting game.

You should be fine BUT - pay to have your kids application sent via priority mail.

It will get through the mail system and to being processed much faster and be trackable. I just let my kids' renewals be sent via normal mail from the Post Office where we had the appointment with no special postage and have no idea where it is. Neither does state nor the USPS. Fortunately, we have no international travel expected in the next couple of months. Just checked today, almost exactly 4 weeks from application date of 3/15, and website still shows "status unavailable."

Is sending it via priority by the acceptance agent an option? It was never offered once.