Our Long National Passport Nightmare is Over
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 09.10.07 | 2:05 PM ET
The U.S. State Department says the months-long delays, the Kafka-esque frustrations and the lines like Rolling Stones concerts just to get a passport have come to an end. From the AP: “The department said steps taken to deal with the crisis—the hiring of hundreds of new adjudicators, temporary transfers of employees to passport centers and the opening of a new facility to handle the deluge—had brought the waiting period for a standard application back to six to eight weeks and three weeks for expedited service.” Let’s hope this bears out in practice. If it doesn’t, government officials might have to resort to something like this.
Related on World Hum:
* U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee on National Passport Month
* How I Scored a New U.S. Passport in One Day
* Is Getting a Passport Patriotic?
Photo courtesy of the National Archives.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Susan Rebel 09.11.07 | 1:00 PM ET
It only took us three weeks to get our passports. We had old passports from the 1980s which may have enhanced the process. We were inpressed.
TambourineMan 09.11.07 | 9:49 PM ET
Mailed in Mrs TambourineMan’s renewal in mid-July. Coming up on 8 weeks now. Still waiting.