U.S. State Department Boosts Passport Production
If you applied for a U.S. Passport in the last two or three months, you know the pain of a long wait. Thanks to new regulations requiring a Passport to travel by air to any foreign country (that includes Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean!), has upped the number of Passport applications. And that means that the U.S. State Department has been too inundated to move quickly. However, thanks to some changes at State, passport processing is picking up speed, reports MSNBC:
“Passport production has hit record highs as the department works diligently to honor its mission and ensure that every citizen gets a passport in time for planned travel,� it said.
A boost in staffing and overtime and weekend hours at the 17 passport agencies has succeeded in reducing some processing delays that had threatened a huge number of overseas vacations for Americans and sparked congressional concern, [the State Department] said.
Your expedited U.S. passport (which comes with a pricey fee) should be ready in about two weeks. But the government is saying that you will still need 10 weeks if you aren’t paying the expedited fee. I’d apply at least three months before your intended trip if you do not intend to pay the fee for expedited passport processing.
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March 20th, 2008 at 5:44 am
Snx for you job!
It has very much helped me!