how long should it take the State Dept. to renew my passport?

[CTyankee]

It's been a month now and I followed all the rules strictly on how to send it in for renewal (there was actually a phone number with a nice person to answer your passport questions). I took it to the post office who checked it for the order it needed to be in and sent it on its way.

Is everything just slowmo now or is this normal?

[jberryhill]

1. A lot of things are moving slowly.

Regardless of what you hear from the idiot in chief, the federal government is working like many other businesses, with a lot of employees working from home.

I have matters in three federal courts and the US Patent and Trademark Office, and any expectation that things are functioning on normal time scales is simply not a realistic one.

I would expect passport renewals are extremely low priority right now, since there is also no realistic need to have them renewed any time soon.

[Lochloosa]

2. Without paying an expedited fee. I think it's about 6-8 wks

[unblock]

3. "Expect significant delays due to COVID-19"

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/how-apply/processing-times.html


Normally a month or so should be enough time, but these are not normal times....

[CTyankee]

5. Thank you for the info!

Not that I'm going anywhere, but I would like to have it.

[cwydro]

4. They're not doing them now.

Can’t remember where I read that, but they put a stop on renewals at the beginning of the pandemic.

[unblock]

6. They are at least helping people in life-or-death situations.

Sounds like they are slowly working on everyone else, but with significant delays.

[TreasonousBastard]

7. I work for the Census Bureau, and we are forbidden from working outside of our homes for now...

since 90% of my job involves driving around to find people. I'm not getting much done. I also normally use local town and county offices to get background information, and with them being closed I get even less done.

We have a skeleton staff going into the office to deal with things like mail. No doubt the Passport Office is underthe same constraints.

[WVreaper]

8. No passports!

Due to the covid virus the state department is not issuing any passports. It doesn't say anything about renewals.

[SheltieLover]

9. I had read this too, and wondered about renewals

Mine is going to expire soon and I would like to renew it.

[BleedsBlue]

10. Goy our in 5 weeks...

We were just renewing ours though. We sent them in around Jan 3rd. Got them back first week in Feb. You can use this site to kinda find out where the are. Hope it helps.

https://passportstatus.state.gov/

[a la izquierda]

11. Following as I have to apply for a second passport...

Since I’ve got to send mine off for a visa.