Need To Renew a Passport or Obtain One? COVID-19 Could Keep You Waiting

The State Department has taken notice of the exceedingly long passport waits, blaming it on the fact that passports can only be processed at a safe and secure government facility, not merely at workers’ homes. Due to the sensitive nature of the documents submitted with the application. Payments were processed immediately as opposed to later, but every other thing has to be done at a passport center or agency, and the bustling and busy staffs were reduced to skeleton staffs from mid-March through early June.

The result of this has been a backlog of 1.8 million applications when employees were allowed to return to work and started the immediate processing of regular passports again in June. You may be left wondering, “how long will it take to receive a passport?” The answer to your question would be that the State Department is not or has not yet listed expected wait times, as it usually would, but travelers who reached out on Twitter were told as recently as August 10th to “expect processing delays of several months as we work to get through a high volume of applications.”

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