Cortesía de Miami Dade Library Sistem If you need a U.S. passport without an appointment, you better act fast. On Saturday, June 14, people can apply at a “passport fair” in Miami-Dade County.

Agencies around the country struggled to keep up with passport applications last year, creating up to a 13-week wait time and difficulties to snag an appointment. But now things have turned around.

According to a March 23 update from the State Department, passport applications now take 10-13 weeks to process, up from 8-11 weeks in early March.

Nearly 400,000 passport applications make their way to the State Department every week, a decline from the 500,000 the agency received from January through May. In some weeks, twice as many ...

If your application has been pending for an extended period, you can call the National Passport Information Center at 1-877-487-2778. For more information on contacting the department about your ...

The U.S. State Department selected Orlando to house the state’s second passport office, joining an existing one in Miami, announced by Orlando U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans can now renew their passports online, bypassing a cumbersome mail-in paper application process that often caused delays.The State Department announced Wednesday<a ...

As of July 2023, it is taking an estimated 10 to 13 weeks for routine processing of U.S. passports and seven to nine weeks for expedited applications, according to the U.S. Bureau of Consumer Affairs.