Recommendations for expedited passport renewal
Apr 17, 2017, 1:17 pm
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I requested expedited service when renewing a passport last spring through the normal channels and also sent via USPS overnight delivery - it was a week from the day I sent it in to the day I received my new passport.
Your Senator or Member of Congress' constituent services department can also help.
Your Senator or Member of Congress' constituent services department can also help.
If you have a hard deadline, either go to a Passport Agency in person or use an expediter. The expediter is worthwhile only if you do not live anywhere near a Passport Agency and the cost of traveling to one of these exceeds the cost of the expediter.
As others note, if all of your paperwork is in order, a Passport Agency can issue a passport renewal in 2-3 hours. All of the forms are available and can be filled out online and printed so that you have completed and legible documents. There is always a photographer near a Passport Agency and this one where do-it-yourself is not worth the savings.
Oct 22, 2018, 4:26 am
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For those of us with the opportunity to apply for our US passports inside or outside of the US and wanting a quick turnaround, it can be possible to get expedited service for passports without even paying the expedite fee by applying at US embassies/consulates and being able to demonstrate very near term travel. It’s approximately 10 day or less turns to delivery for most of our consulates/embassies; and for those with travel within even less time than two weeks, they can issue a short-duration replacement passport that can be turned in for a full duration passport at no additional charge if done so within a year of the issue date.