If a US Passport is expiring in one year or less, there is now a very nice online portal to request a renewal. If the passport has more than a year left but one wants to renew it early, paper forms must be sent and the old passport mailed in.
We wanted to renew but our passports had a bit more than one year left, so we filled out the DS-82 forms and sent them with the old passports.
- We sent the mailer via certified mail in November, 2024.
- The new passport books were delivered to our home 17 days later.
- The new passport cards (first time!) were delivered to our home 1 day after that.
So passport renewals take less than three weeks right now, even without paying for expedited serice nor express mail shipment. The old passport books were returned a bit later, 22 days after we sent them in for renewal. We appreciate this, they had passport stamps which hold memories for us.
