Save Some Money On Expediated Passport

[Obongo]

Hi,

When you apply for your passport,
you get the option of expediatiting ($30)
which cuts down the time to 4-6 weeks
and paying a further $13.95 (varies b/w
postoffices) for Fedex mailing passport
back to you.

Don't worry about the fedexing. My situation
below is typical.

Applied at post office on 03/30.
Passport shows up on on-line system
on 04/05.
Passport finished and mailed on 04/06
(link to tracking number provided)
Gets to me on 04/09.

So I maybe Fedexing will buy you an
extra day, but given it taking under
2 weeks to process the passports,
it's not that bad.

 

[teddybear]

Obongo,

Did your online status show your application as "expedited" or did it mistakenly say "routine processing" as a couple of us have experienced?

Thanks for your passport timeline. Very helpful.

Teddy.

 

[Flydog]

At one of our local post offices, you can pay the State department expediting fee and not pay for "XPress Mail" ($14.95 each way).

At the other, they require that expedited passport applications pay for XPress Mail both ways. The "XPress Mail" shaves a day or three off the round trip and doesn't seem worth it.

It might be good to find a post office that will allow you to pay only the State department's expediting feee (which, to me, after waiting all of the N-400 processing time, seems to be worth it).

 

[Obongo]

Obongo,

Did your online status show your application as "expedited" or did it mistakenly say "routine processing" as a couple of us have experienced?

Thanks for your passport timeline. Very helpful.

Teddy.

It said expedited