jkeller

State Department website is saying 10-12 weeks for routine(non-rush) service.

I sent ds-82 passport renewal form on 3-23 for both a new passport and passport card with post office 2-3 day trackable service.
Tracking shows arrived in Greenwood IN on 3-26
Check cashed on 4-6
Approval email on 4-8
I'll update when I receive them.
Funny thing, I mailed it to Irving TX. That's the address it shows on the form for people living in Texas to mail it too.

civilservant

Wife is currently waiting on hers since 3/3. We used the Post Office service though since this is her first passport (at 44 - yes you read that right)

celticgrid

I filled out the form to renew earlier today. This text from the site may explain the Greenwood v. Irving point if the mail facility is in Greenwood?

" On a related issue I was disappointed that we still have to deal with 'hard copy' photographs. They have a site to upload a photo to, but all it does is auto crop, allow manual cropping, then sends it back to your computer for you to print and staple (!) to the form. Would it be too much for them to accept an upload of the digital version?

scrubbedexpat091

I will be sending mine in a couple weeks hopefully, but it's being sent from Canada, will add a couple weeks on each end.

scrubbedexpat091

My parents were around 45 when they got their first passport, so they could come and see me in Canada for my first wedding in 2005. Neither renewed when theirs expired in 2015, as far as I know that trip to Canada was the one and only time my mom used her passport.

jkeller

Update

Passport received today. Passport was printed on 4-7-21 so valid until 4-6-31. It was printed at the western passport agency in Tucson AZ. The passport page's artwork didn't change from the last one. Good to go for another decade!

jkeller

Passport came by overnight mail and I got a new passport card in the regular mail. Card is valid for the exact same dates. It came from Houston. Haven't received the old passport/card yet. The process took 1 day less than 3 weeks from mailing to receiving.

scrubbedexpat091

Hopefully you will get your old one back, last time I renewed they lost my old one and I never got it back.

civilservant

My wife received her first passport today.

BenK91

Applied for my first US passport on April 2nd, shows as in process as of April 7th.

I paid for expedited service though, and was told 4-6 weeks also.

jkeller

Old passport/passport card received today. Came from zip code 77002 which is downtown Houston where the Houston passport office is. Interestingly, at least to me, is the logistics of the process. I mailed my renewal for both passport/passport card to Irving TX. It was instead sent to Greenwood IN. My new passport was printed at the passport agency in Tucson AZ. My new passport card was printed at the Houston TX passport agency. My old passport/passport card, which went to Indiana was mailed back to me from Houston TX. So my old passport/passport card was sent from Indiana to Houston then back to me. Just me thinking, My ds-82 passport renewal form was scanned into the State Department's system in Indiana and then "assigned" to be printed at the passport agency with least amount of backlog and the card was "assigned" to be made at a different agency. Again maybe that's just interesting to me.

TimFountain

We just renewed both kids passports. Not expedited. 3 weeks from submission to receiving the new ones....

jkeller

State Dept website now showing 18 weeks for routine service, wow. Glad I did mine earlier this year.

scrubbedexpat091

I don't anticipate getting mind this year at all, I need to do mine in person due to a snafu, earliest appointment at the Vancouver Consulate I could get was early September, and I made that appointment end of May.

I regret having listened to the State Dept in March 2020 when they said not to send in renewals as they had stopped routine processing, oh well not like I am going to travel anywhere, and I can still get into the US if need be from Canada with a little extra red tape at the border.

jkeller

Just before the stuff hit the fan,I sent my renewal for global entry in the first week of March 2020. I got my new card February 2021. It might have taken just as long for a passport. Can't you use ds-82 passport renew by mail and skip the consulate?