The State Department\u2019s Bureau of Consular Affairs is decreasing processing instances for passports to 4-6 weeks, down from our prior dedication of 6-8 weeks. This announcement comes after months of issuing passports effectively underneath the 6-8 week dedication. It showcases our progress to repeatedly enhance the effectivity, fairness, and accessibility of the U.S. passport utility course of. The up to date 4-6 week processing time applies to each functions submitted by paper or on-line.<\/p>\n For Americans in want of expedited service for U.S. passports, our processing stays 2\u20113\u00a0weeks. These processing instances start when an utility is obtained by the State Department and don’t embody mailing instances.<\/p>\n As we introduced in September, Americans who want to renew their passport now have the choice to make use of the Online Passport Renewal system, a safe on-line course of that can save effort and time. Online Passport Renewal is on the market at\u00a0Travel.State.Gov\/renewonline.<\/a><\/p>\n We encourage Americans to test their passport expiration date and\u00a0apply early<\/a>, analysis their vacation spot by visiting\u00a0journey.state.gov<\/a>, and enroll within the\u00a0Smart Traveler Enrollment Program<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] The State Department\u2019s Bureau of Consular Affairs is decreasing processing instances for passports to 4-6 weeks, down from our prior dedication of 6-8 weeks. This announcement comes after months of issuing passports effectively underneath the 6-8 week dedication. It showcases our progress to repeatedly enhance the effectivity, fairness, and accessibility of the U.S. passport […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.chriscruises.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/TSA-OFFICER.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,164,1711,710,1713,1712,1284,1714],"class_list":{"0":"post-49820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cruise","8":"tag-chris","9":"tag-cruises","10":"tag-dept","11":"tag-passport","12":"tag-processing","13":"tag-reducing","14":"tag-state","15":"tag-times"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.chriscruises.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/TSA-OFFICER.jpeg?ssl=1)