Passport renewal? There's an app for that

So for your $29.95 what do you get?

An unofficial app which doesn't guarantee the photos will be accepted.
The same renewal form you could have for free.
Oh yes, but you have to print it out.
A filled in shipping label. That's valuable.
Do they provide the envelope or is that for the customer to find?

Bargain.

My fiancée and I submitted our passports for renewal on February 13 with regular service. We received our new passports 19 and 20 days later. No expedited processing fees necessary.

$30 for an app that doesn't do the work for you sounds like highway robbery.

These copied news release without vetting is fairly worthless. Goes right along with how to get money in Europe. But, then consider the source - Fox News. What is the point of an app that you use once every ten years. And in the ten years the app is out of date. An passport application is pretty simple.

App should be called "It's Sleazy!"

not needed, unnecessary.

My passport was up for renewal mid-May 2015, sent in for the renewal by US mail on 23 March 2015 and received it exactly a month later on 23 April, took off SFO to Paris a month late on 20 May. Everything worked perfectly. No extra fees paid.

...(sigh), another "app writer" trying to make a buck by convincing us that somehow, they've made this process easier. Can't wait to see that app that helps you do your taxes.

KC, there are apps that help you do your taxes (not going to dignify them by mentioning names).
But this one is completely unnecessary and seems to do nothing for you except send you the same form you can get online already and a mailing label. I can run by the post office and accomplish the same thing in minutes for free. As picky as they are about photos, I wouldn't trust an app to take a photo that would acceptable, either.

I don't see how that expedites the process.

I wish renewing my US passport would be as easy as to renew my Italian passport at the Consulate.

Go to website of Italian Consulate in SF
Fill application online.
Make apptm on line (for a couple of weeks later or sooner if emergency)
Go to Consulate General in SF on Webster (at Broadway) on day and time of apptm, enter passport office, guy takes your digital fingerprints (5-10 minutes), prints your passport book (another 2 minutes), you pay, you walk out with new passport. Total time; 20 min max.
The only problem: to find street parking in Pacific Heights in SF took me 1/2 an hour.

Phred, sorry but I have to agree, if you only need it every ten years, what's the point? And $30 for passport photos and an envelope (Nigel, it appears that the envelope is included from Phred's description) seems a bit high. But the main thing is ,it's a one time in ten years application.

oh well then, if they throw in the envelope (gosh only knows how hard it is to get one of them on a Saturday) it's -OK- then.

Ya know guys, when I post something it's often an FYI thing. People will hear about an app for passports and wonder what it's all about. So now they will know, and if they read the comments they will know it's not necessary.

It's an app-crazy world so folks are going to be drawn to them, good or bad.