Renewing a US Passport
I need to renew my passport and am looking for suggestions on how to do it. Paul
Forum Discussion
RedRocket204 wrote:
IIRC, expedited Passport renewal service requires a specific reason, like you already bought a plane ticket that is coming up very soon and you have proof that you must provide. In no way was there any pressure for expedited service renewing online, which I did 1 year ago.
As was already mentioned, just do the renewal process online as that is a federal website that guides you through the process and expect to be without a passport for about 30 days. You can also separately pay for expedited return shipping, different from the expedited passport handling service.
Our experience renewing more than once has been different -- there was a push to pay extra for the "expedited" service, reminding us that standard service might take 6 weeks or more. However, in actual fact, non-expedited service has always taken only 3-4 weeks for us to receive our new passports.
