US online passport renewal is now fully open for business
by Jay Peters from The Verge - All Posts on (#6QW43)
The Verge's Sean Hollister picking up his new passport at the post office. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge If you read my colleague Sean Hollister's positive experience renewing his US passport online through a beta website from the State Department - without needing to ship his old passport - I have good news for you: that experience is now available for everyone. You can access it right here.
Instead of printing a paper application and mailing it with a check, Americans can now renew their passports through a secure process that will save time and effort," Secretary of State Antony Blinken writes in an announcement about the program.
Right now, the renewal website is showing a six- to eight-week estimate for processing times, and the State Department notes that mailing times aren't included in that estimate. That all means you may not get...