Mar 1, 2022, 6:35 am
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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)
Mar 5, 2018, 6:57 pm
#166
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 1,028
Received new passport 3/2. Never got an email or anything. Looks like it was shipped out 2/28. 7 business day turn around.
Anyone know when they will send back your old passport? I'd like to keep mine for sentimental reasons lol
Mar 5, 2018, 8:40 pm
#167
Join Date: Feb 2018
Programs: delta
Posts: 7
update.
Got an email with Letter saying that my translated version of my marriage certificate not sufficient. However I sent them official documents mailed to us from Registrars office in Aruba. 3 pages- 1) translated version (with stamp saying official translation), page 2) continuation of page 1 with Appostille stamp for official translation and signatures and Registrar of Aruba stickers/stamps, page 3) Dutch language certificate with stamp and signature. All pages bound. Called office and waited all day for call back. Finally they called and I said if you check page 2 and 3 you will see official markers. She said I’ll call you back, 4 hours later (at 8:30 PM) they said they will issue passport after going over document a bunch of times. Will get passport by next week. Moral of the story Do Not Get Married Oversees!! I spent my entire day trying to figure out how to get another copy of my marriage certificate and it was an absolute nightmare. I had no problems changing name at DMV or Social Security. I’m going to see if I can get a marriage license in my state so I never have to live this ordeal again- although every ID I have is in my married name, so that should be a fun process as well!!
Mar 6, 2018, 5:35 pm
#168
Join Date: Feb 2018
Programs: delta
Posts: 7
update.
Got an email with Letter saying that my translated version of my marriage certificate not sufficient. However I sent them official documents mailed to us from Registrars office in Aruba. 3 pages- 1) translated version (with stamp saying official translation), page 2) continuation of page 1 with Appostille stamp for official translation and signatures and Registrar of Aruba stickers/stamps, page 3) Dutch language certificate with stamp and signature. All pages bound. Called office and waited all day for call back. Finally they called and I said if you check page 2 and 3 you will see official markers. She said I’ll call you back, 4 hours later (at 8:30 PM) they said they will issue passport after going over document a bunch of times. Will get passport by next week. Moral of the story Do Not Get Married Oversees!! I spent my entire day trying to figure out how to get another copy of my marriage certificate and it was an absolute nightmare. I had no problems changing name at DMV or Social Security. I’m going to see if I can get a marriage license in my state so I never have to live this ordeal again- although every ID I have is in my married name, so that should be a fun process as well!!
Will update when when I receive passport, card, and return of old passport and marriage certificate.
On a side note I contacted my US Senator to help we with the problem (depending on who reviews it) with having an international marriage certificate as proof of name change. Can’t get married here (we are married), and even if we could every ID I have is in married name.
They are sure they can be of help.
Mar 8, 2018, 11:09 am
#169
Join Date: Aug 2017
Posts: 177
3/6 5:30 PM got email that passport is printed!!
Will update when when I receive passport, card, and return of old passport and marriage certificate.
On a side note I contacted my US Senator to help we with the problem (depending on who reviews it) with having an international marriage certificate as proof of name change. Can’t get married here (we are married), and even if we could every ID I have is in married name.
They are sure they can be of help.
Mar 8, 2018, 11:39 am
#170
Join Date: Feb 2018
Programs: delta
Posts: 7
Good News is my passport arrived!
Mar 15, 2018, 1:03 pm
#171
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: BDL
Programs: NWA Platinum, HHonors Diamond, SPG, YX, AA
Posts: 5,351
Recent US passport revewal time
On Monday I mailed in my renewal application for my US passport. Nothing out of the ordinary, all paperwork complete, old passport sent, new photo, etc.
Today, my employer asked me to play on an unexpected trip at the end of the month.
When I sent my passport in 10 years ago I remember I got it back 11 days after I mailed it, but I'm worried now it might be closer to 3-4 weeks.
Has anyone recently gotten their passport renewed and can share with me how long it took?
Today, my employer asked me to play on an unexpected trip at the end of the month.
When I sent my passport in 10 years ago I remember I got it back 11 days after I mailed it, but I'm worried now it might be closer to 3-4 weeks.
Has anyone recently gotten their passport renewed and can share with me how long it took?
Mar 16, 2018, 9:59 am
#172
Join Date: Feb 2018
Programs: delta
Posts: 7
On Monday I mailed in my renewal application for my US passport. Nothing out of the ordinary, all paperwork complete, old passport sent, new photo, etc.
Today, my employer asked me to play on an unexpected trip at the end of the month.
When I sent my passport in 10 years ago I remember I got it back 11 days after I mailed it, but I'm worried now it might be closer to 3-4 weeks.
Has anyone recently gotten their passport renewed and can share with me how long it took?
Today, my employer asked me to play on an unexpected trip at the end of the month.
When I sent my passport in 10 years ago I remember I got it back 11 days after I mailed it, but I'm worried now it might be closer to 3-4 weeks.
Has anyone recently gotten their passport renewed and can share with me how long it took?
Mar 16, 2018, 12:39 pm
#173
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 1,028
On Monday I mailed in my renewal application for my US passport. Nothing out of the ordinary, all paperwork complete, old passport sent, new photo, etc.
Today, my employer asked me to play on an unexpected trip at the end of the month.
When I sent my passport in 10 years ago I remember I got it back 11 days after I mailed it, but I'm worried now it might be closer to 3-4 weeks.
Has anyone recently gotten their passport renewed and can share with me how long it took?
Today, my employer asked me to play on an unexpected trip at the end of the month.
When I sent my passport in 10 years ago I remember I got it back 11 days after I mailed it, but I'm worried now it might be closer to 3-4 weeks.
Has anyone recently gotten their passport renewed and can share with me how long it took?
Mar 17, 2018, 11:59 pm
#174
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Atlanta, GA, USA
Programs: Frontier Gold, DL estranged 1MMer, Spirit VIP, CO/NW/UA/AA once gold/plat/comped gold now dust.
Posts: 38,133
I just recently did mine as a renewal by mail with a larger book and also the card, also non-expedited and all sent in to Philadelphia. I paid by paper check but they ran that through electronically just like the power company does (to take possession of the money sooner, and I s'pose to verify it doesn't bounce quickly). The book was first to arrive back, in about 10 days. Then the old materials (hole-punched old book, etc.) 2 days after that and then the new card in 2 more days. They were very quick on the production side once they had the money in hand.
) and passport was ready for pickup two days later.
Apr 8, 2018, 1:59 am
#180
Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 13
Expedited minor passport
4/4 - Submitted at local USPS, paid expedited processing and priority delivery both ways
4/5 - Delivered, no confirmation email
4/9 - check cleared
4/9 - received first tracking/confirmation email
4/10 - received USPS express mail tracking number via email
4/13 - expected delivery date
4/4 - Submitted at local USPS, paid expedited processing and priority delivery both ways
4/5 - Delivered, no confirmation email
4/9 - check cleared
4/9 - received first tracking/confirmation email
4/10 - received USPS express mail tracking number via email
4/13 - expected delivery date
Last edited by trentblase; Apr 11, 2018 at 12:32 am
