Passport Renewals?

[iflyrc5]

We needed to renew our passports - sent in the old passports and paperwork on March 25 - got the new one's in the mail today - quick turnaround ---- however, they did not return our old ones :(. I was under the impression that we got the old one's back too. Has anyone else renewed theirs recently and not gotten the old one back?

[POA1]

We needed to renew our passports - sent in the old passports and paperwork on March 25 - got the new one's in the mail today - quick turnaround ---- however, they did not return our old ones :(. I was under the impression that we got the old one's back too. Has anyone else renewed theirs recently and not gotten the old one back?

 

No, they don't return them.

[jktheangel]

We needed to renew our passports - sent in the old passports and paperwork on March 25 - got the new one's in the mail today - quick turnaround ---- however, they did not return our old ones :(. I was under the impression that we got the old one's back too. Has anyone else renewed theirs recently and not gotten the old one back?

 

 

 

I renewed mine last august and got my old one back with a hole punched thru it and the new one now has a chip in it

 

 

Jamie

[whogo]

Old US passports are returned. They may arrive separately.

[jaspersmycat]

From the U.S. State Department website:

 

"Yes, we will return the old, cancelled passport to you. It may be sent separately from your new passport. It is a good idea to keep your old passport in a safe place as it is considered proof of your U.S. citizenship."

 

It is usually sent back separately and takes longer.

Edited April 9, 2014 by jaspersmycat

[jtl513]

We got the old ones back, a day or two later.

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Edited April 9, 2014 by jtl513

[Tarpeian Rock]

Our old ones came back - complete with hole - maybe 7-10 days after the new ones were received. Mine and my wife's came back in separate envelopes.

[Globaliser]

From the U.S. State Department website:

 

"Yes, we will return the old, cancelled passport to you. It may be sent separately from your new passport. It is a good idea to keep your old passport in a safe place as it is considered proof of your U.S. citizenship."

In addition, many people have valid visas in old passports that can still be used even though the passport itself has expired.

[POA1]

Strange. We definitely did not get our old ones back.

 

I apologize if I gave someone wrong information, but when we renewed our passports, we got neither the old passport or the old passport card back. The odds of the government doing something different than it says on their website must be practically zero... ;)

Edited April 9, 2014 by POA1

[janmcn]

Yes, you will get your old ones back a few days later (over a week in my case) BUT, if you had a passport that was damaged, it will not be returned.

[cruzkitty]

I just renewed both our Passports in March. I then received our OLD Passports with the holes punched about 2 weeks later after receiving our New Passports. I am a TN Resident.

[CruiserBruce]

Last October we got our old passports back 3-5 days after the new ones arrived.

[Randyk47]

Renewed ours late last year and got old ones, with a hole punched in it, back in a separate envelope a few days later. Seems to me that somewhere I read or got a notice that the new one would be mailed from one address and the old one came from a different location. From what I could tell we mailed our renewal to the National Passport Center in PA but the new ones were generated in a different state (MD?).

[jtl513]

For those who got their new passports in different envelopes: were the two numbers in sequence? Ours have a gap of one number between them, and have wondered why ... and who got the number between us. :confused:

[PatriciaF]

Our new passports were sent express mail; our old ones, with the hole punched in it, were sent regular first class mail.

 

But--I was amazed that the new ones arrived in less than 3 weeks and the old ones about a week later.

[CruiserBruce]

For those who got their new passports in different envelopes: were the two numbers in sequence? Ours have a gap of one number between them, and have wondered why ... and who got the number between us. :confused:

 

We got ours in separate envelopes with sequential numbers. Our previous passports were also sequentially numbered, but don't know if we got them in the same envelope or different.

[NMLady]

For those who got their new passports in different envelopes: were the two numbers in sequence? Ours have a gap of one number between them, and have wondered why ... and who got the number between us. :confused:

 

My husband and I sent in our passports together in the same Express Mail envelope. We got them back separately and our numbers are not in sequence. There is not only a gap of several numbers between them but they also were not processed on the same day so have different expiration dates. .????

Edited April 9, 2014 by NMLady

[Krazy Kruizers]

I had to renew mine about 6 months ago.

Sent in the old one with a note that I wanted it back.

I got the new one within 10 days. The old one was sent separately - got it about 2 weeks later.

[lazey1]

We renewed in Feb. and got the new passports within 3 weeks, the old passports were received about 2 weeks after that. and no there wasn't a hole punched in the old ones. They are still good until October.

[lazey1]

My husband and I sent in our passports together in the same Express Mail envelope. We got them back separately and our numbers are not in sequence. There is not only a gap of several numbers between them but they also were not processed on the same day so have different expiration dates. .????

 

Same here.

[VioletHorse]

We needed to renew our passports - sent in the old passports and paperwork on March 25 - got the new one's in the mail today - quick turnaround ---- however, they did not return our old ones :(. I was under the impression that we got the old one's back too. Has anyone else renewed theirs recently and not gotten the old one back?

 

We just renewed our passports and had a quick 17 day turnaround. The old ones took another 2 weeks to come back to us. They do return them, but separately from the new ones.

[Gail & Marty sailing away]

In addition, many people have valid visas in old passports that can still be used even though the passport itself has expired.

I agree with you ..

[HamOp]

We needed to renew our passports - sent in the old passports and paperwork on March 25 - got the new one's in the mail today - quick turnaround ---- however, they did not return our old ones :(. I was under the impression that we got the old one's back too. Has anyone else renewed theirs recently and not gotten the old one back?

 

You know? Sometimes you can help someone and never even know you did.

 

Because of your post I decided to pull out our passports to check the expiration dates. Discovered ours expired 9 days ago!

 

Thanks for starting this thread! My wife is a passport agent, so it's now on her "honey-do" list!

[binkey36]

Old US passports are returned. They may arrive separately.

 

Our old passports were also returned separately (2009).

[innlady1]

My husband and I sent in our passports together in the same Express Mail envelope. We got them back separately and our numbers are not in sequence. There is not only a gap of several numbers between them but they also were not processed on the same day so have different expiration dates. .????

 

Same with DH and I. Two or three days apart. Ours expire in '15, but I do recall they mailed my previous one back to me with holes punched in it.