re: Need advice: passport related UPDATE

Just get a passport card, it's half the price of the book. Unless you plan on flying international in the next few years, you plan on flying somewhere baw?

Since it's a pretty standard 6 week process time for passports no you didn't give yourself plenty of time.

Go to passport agency in new orleans. I think you have to make an appointment first. LINK

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So if they got all my EXTRA stuff on FRIDAY may 15, I should be ok?

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You should be based on what happened in my situation.

I walked into the El Paso Passport Office on Friday, with a scheduled appointment. It cost me $110 for the passport, $60 for expedited, and $25 for in person, so total $195. My old passport expired 10/2014 and was in another state so I had to apply for a new one. I also had an out of state ID. I showed an AZ license, birth certificate, one other form of ID (TX insurance license, no picture), and proof of travel (airline email of itinerary leaving on 6/2). I am picking it up in person on Wednesday, they could have mailed it to me but I didn't want to take the risk since I'm leaving so soon. Don't know if this helps but it was my experience. I was shocked at how easy the process went.

The word expedited alone simply Means you waited too long, and then having to rely on them to do their job right is the other mistake

I got my passport card last year. Came in 10 days, didn't get it expedited.

I went to the clerk of courts office on coursey. That's probably 1 less layer of red tape to go through.

The card is good for Mexico, Canada, Bermuda and the carribean. Perfect for cruises. And it's cheaper.

Yeah that sounds right. All you really need for a carribean cruise is your drivers license and birth certificate but I didn't feel like packing my birth certificate everywhere I went.

My wife lost my passport and i needed a new one. ...went to the main office in new orleans, walked out with a new passport 6 hours later