If you happen to learn my colleague Sean Hollister’s constructive expertise renewing his US passport on-line by way of a beta web site from the State Division — with no need to ship his previous passport — I’ve excellent news for you: that have is now accessible for everybody. You’ll be able to entry it proper right here.
“As an alternative of printing a paper software and mailing it with a examine, Individuals can now renew their passports by way of a safe course of that may save effort and time,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken writes in an announcement about this system.
Proper now, the renewal web site is exhibiting a six- to eight-week estimate for processing occasions, and the State Division notes that mailing occasions aren’t included in that estimate. That each one means chances are you’ll not get your renewed passport again in only a single week, like Sean did. (You’ll even have to satisfy sure necessities to have the ability to renew your passport on-line.)
Nevertheless, Blinken notes that the common routine passport is being processed at “properly underneath” the marketed window, so in the event you do renew your passport by way of this web site, you would possibly nonetheless see a comparatively fast turnaround.