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Pilot Program to Renew US Passport Online

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UPDATE - We received our 'Next Generation' passports within 10 days.

The State Department 'silently' launched a Pilot Program to Renew US Passport Online. During the month of August, they will accept 25,000 online renewal applications on a first-come, first-served basis.

We chanced upon it August 2. My husband and I applied the very next day. (There is a 24-hr wait after you register online)

Checked our status today. Both my husband's and mine have been shipped!! SO IMPRESSED!!

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/have-passport/renew-online.html

Hurry!! :))

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That's good news - Rocket posted something about it yesterday as well.

Posted by
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Awesome! I submitted mine yesterday. Will definitely report back about my timing/process as well.

Posted by
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Will be interest to see the which style of passport you receive.

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bethb - Please do. We are pretty amazed at their one-week turn-around time for non-expedited!

Frank - Will update once we receive them.

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DallasMom7 – that’s great news! Glad to hear you received them so quickly. Thank you for following up.

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DallasMom must've gotten in before everyone else (or I am unlucky!) I submitted mine on 8/11. Still says "received" with no indication of processing yet (though I am not sure if it will state such information or not!). Just thought I'd check in if anyone was curious.

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bethb's experience is why they have "Pilot Programs".

It is how you find out what you don't know

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bethb, we applied the very next day after it opened up.... probably amongst the first few. Our status showed 'processing' within 15 mins of submission. I am pretty sure yours will happen soon.

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We've got 5 years to go before renewal, hope they have the bugs worked out by then.

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Adding my reply to here as well as the other thread. I submitted on 8/11, and just got an email this week that it was being processed. It now says it's printed, so I assume I should get it in the next week. Mine will be about 7 weeks processing if it does come next week. So not faster for me, but certainly easier to submit. And I wasn't in a hurry - no travel planned until next summer.

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