U.S. Passport Renewal

[DeepFreeze63]

Wow, an unexpected surprise in today's mail - my new passport.

 

Submitted a renewal request on 7/18 with both expedited mail service and expedited processing for a "big book" passport. Been checking on progress on-line but only saw "received 7/21"; so was shocked when it came in expedited U.S. Mail today.

 

Had been worried about "enough blank pages" (I renewed 2 years ago BUT "forgot" to check the box for a "big book"); so I renewed this time with 3 full empty pages left. African 2022 cruise used a lot of pages; had 2 European cruises in 2023 that used only 2 pages.

Beautiful background art, sturdy construction, and 42 pages for Visas.

[RELS]

My passport (expedited, express mail, large format) came in 5 weeks. I was very pleasantly surprised.

[Boston lab girl]

A little bit off topic but we renewed globle entry and tsa precheck. Put paperwork in on a Saturday. They said four to 6 months. Got renewed notice that Monday. New cards in less than a week. Maybe renewals are going faster than new.

[jmnapa]

RE: Global Entry renewal.  The site says that they will not contact you but it sounds as if you were contacted with your renewal notice?

[cruiseluv]

On 9/7/2023 at 12:44 PM, RELS said:

My passport (expedited, express mail, large format) came in 5 weeks. I was very pleasantly surprised.

That was my experience as well!

[Lonedaddy]

On 9/7/2023 at 4:40 PM, Boston lab girl said:

A little bit off topic but we renewed globle entry and tsa precheck. Put paperwork in on a Saturday. They said four to 6 months. Got renewed notice that Monday. New cards in less than a week. Maybe renewals are going faster than new.

I had a similar situation.  I think the renewal goes fairly quickly but could take 6 months if you require an interview.  DW and I got our renewal in a couple of days.