It wasn’t always Nancy McLaughlin’s first question. But these days the Colorado-based travel advisor cuts to the chase when clients want an overseas trip. Now she leads with, “Have you checked your passport?”
Passport processing times have increased by several weeks just since February. It now takes 10 to 13 weeks for routine processing and seven to nine weeks for expedited processing, according to the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs.
This doesn’t include the “mailing time” on each end, a euphemism meaning that your application might be in transit or sitting in a pile on someone’s desk. “It may take up to two weeks
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