washington passport time
Mar 18th 2010, 11:34 pm
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washington passport time
A thread somewhere said passports were taking 8 weeks now from washington. My renewel has just taken 4
Mar 18th 2010, 11:36 pm
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Mar 18th 2010, 11:42 pm
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Re: washington passport time
They centralized the system for the Americas and the Caribbean in October, 2009 and it looks like they had some teething problems. I think they are now picking up speed.
Mar 19th 2010, 10:12 pm
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Re: washington passport time
They had a big backlog which they were blaming on the snowstorms.
It looks like they are hopefully clearing the backlog as they seem to be getting faster. My husband's renewal just took 6 weeks.
It looks like they are hopefully clearing the backlog as they seem to be getting faster. My husband's renewal just took 6 weeks.
Apr 5th 2010, 5:57 pm
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Re: washington passport time
We applied for Canadian Citizenship last May and got it. Unfortunately my parents became ill and we're heading back on a one way ticket in July and have been told to get UK passports for my kids (their UK ones expire this week and I had got them Canadian passports as they are dual citizens - BIG PROBLEM - ONE WAY TICKET FOREIGN PASSPORT so we've been advised by the consulate in Ottawa to get them UK passports - more expense, but we don't want any prob at airport, so sent off to Washngton DC for UK passports for them last week - just hope they get returned to us in time.
Apr 5th 2010, 11:33 pm
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Re: washington passport time
I hope this is true.
We applied for Canadian Citizenship last May and got it. Unfortunately my parents became ill and we're heading back on a one way ticket in July and have been told to get UK passports for my kids (their UK ones expire this week and I had got them Canadian passports as they are dual citizens - BIG PROBLEM - ONE WAY TICKET FOREIGN PASSPORT so we've been advised by the consulate in Ottawa to get them UK passports - more expense, but we don't want any prob at airport, so sent off to Washngton DC for UK passports for them last week - just hope they get returned to us in time.
We applied for Canadian Citizenship last May and got it. Unfortunately my parents became ill and we're heading back on a one way ticket in July and have been told to get UK passports for my kids (their UK ones expire this week and I had got them Canadian passports as they are dual citizens - BIG PROBLEM - ONE WAY TICKET FOREIGN PASSPORT so we've been advised by the consulate in Ottawa to get them UK passports - more expense, but we don't want any prob at airport, so sent off to Washngton DC for UK passports for them last week - just hope they get returned to us in time.
2. A Right of Abode stamp would have been quicker than a British passport, as Ottawa still deals with these.
3. NORMALLY, 3 months is long enough to get a British passport out of Washington, assuming they don't send the application back for some reason.
