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Who can explain to me the best way to get a passport?

Posted on 3/27/23 at 6:09 am
Posted by tigerfan5959
Member since Jun 2010
300 posts
Posted on 3/27/23 at 6:09 am
I don’t need a passport until next summer. I want to try to get it now so I have plenty of time for it to come in. What steps do I need to take to get one ?
Posted by LSUfan4444
Member since Mar 2004
56621 posts
Posted on 3/27/23 at 6:15 am to
Posted by tccdc
Washington, DC
Member since Sep 2007
3967 posts
Posted on 3/27/23 at 6:25 am to
Apply normal as the link states above. It will take 8-12 weeks at the most to get it.

Even if you expedite you are paying 80 bucks including postage to get it two-three weeks earlier.

Also, the worst countries to get visas do not take more than a month, so you will be fine.

Posted by LSUDVM1999
North Carolina
Member since Aug 2010
2390 posts
Posted on 3/27/23 at 7:16 am to
If you're near a city that will prepare and deliver one to you on site I recommend it. I got my passport this way and it took about an hour. Be sure to have all of your paperwork in order and complete and there should be no problems. The person who took and filed my paperwork seemed very pleased and surprised that I had everything in order. I was also surprised that there were literally two other people in the facility at the same time that I was so it was very slow. All of the people there (which was in Buffalo) were the nicest people that I have ever met at any government office before or since.
Posted by GetCocky11
Calgary, AB
Member since Oct 2012
53509 posts
Posted on 3/27/23 at 8:15 am to
quote:

f you're near a city that will prepare and deliver one to you on site I recommend it. I got my passport this way and it took about an hour.


Could have sworn you had to have an immediate travel need to actually get a passport in-person at the facility.
Posted by speckledawg
Somewhere Salty
Member since Nov 2016
4256 posts
Posted on 3/27/23 at 8:24 am to
No need to spend extra to expedite. You've got way more than enough time.
Posted by One72
Member since Jul 2022
1228 posts
Posted on 3/27/23 at 9:43 am to
Go to your local post office.
This post was edited on 3/27/23 at 9:44 am
Posted by tigerfan5959
Member since Jun 2010
300 posts
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:30 am to
I can complete the whole thing online? How do I submit my documents and pictures?
Posted by TTU97NI
Celina, TX
Member since Mar 2017
1267 posts
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:35 am to
Go to your local post office.

Make an appointment now. Go on line and fill out all the paperwork and print it out. Check or money order.
that was what we did, but the PO was like 4 months booked but here is a local office here (Little ELM, TX) we went to, and it was way easy.

2nd the not paying to have it expedited.
Posted by VABuckeye
NOVA
Member since Dec 2007
38283 posts
Posted on 3/27/23 at 12:13 pm to
And show up with your photo in hand.
Posted by tigerfan5959
Member since Jun 2010
300 posts
Posted on 3/27/23 at 12:14 pm to
Can you go to the court house also?
Posted by LaLadyinTx
Cypress, TX
Member since Nov 2018
7111 posts
Posted on 3/28/23 at 2:09 pm to
quote:

Make an appointment now. Go on line and fill out all the paperwork and print it out. Check or money order.
that was what we did, but the PO was like 4 months booked but here is a local office here (Little ELM, TX) we went to, and it was way easy.


Here's a tip for searching for appointments. If you want to look for a small PO to go to, it will be easier to get a spot. In order to do so, you have to look up the zip code of that town, PO, etc. in order to find them. No matter how many miles away you tell it to search, it gives you only the 5 closest to the zip code you put in. Search around different areas till you find an available appt.
Posted by Chasin The Tiger
Lake Travis, TX
Member since Sep 2012
618 posts
Posted on 3/28/23 at 2:42 pm to
I was able to secure an appointment at the courthouse in downtown Austin a week out. All the post offices were booked for months. The courthouse releases a certain number of appointments every week on Monday mornings.
Posted by Bill Parker?
Member since Jan 2013
5201 posts
Posted on 3/29/23 at 11:49 pm to
If you choose to go to the post office, get your mind right. It will be an exercise in futility.

But you paid for it. But you got that going for you.
Posted by S
RIP Wayde
Member since Jan 2007
168627 posts
Posted on 3/30/23 at 11:33 am to
quote:

If you choose to go to the post office, get your mind right. It will be an exercise in futility


I guess it depends where you go. I did mine at the Marksville PO and the whole thing took like 15 minutes.
Posted by tigerterrace
Mobile, Alabama
Member since Sep 2016
3475 posts
Posted on 4/3/23 at 1:52 pm to
If you are in a bigger city, you might need to call and see which location offers the service.

In Mobile for example, there are two post Offices that offer Passports...the one downtown and the one out in Grand Bay.
Posted by Raoul Stimulato
Hale Bopp Comet
Member since Sep 2022
1986 posts
Posted on 4/3/23 at 2:16 pm to
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