New government regulations requiring a passport for US citizens to re-enter the country by plane from Canada, the Caribbean, and other countries have resulted in a surge of passport applications. Though predictable, the State Department’s passport offices are now overloaded with work. The result? Long wait times and long lines for people needing a passport. In fact wait times have nearly doubled. The expected wait time on an “expedited” application is nearly one month!

You can still get a passport on the same day, but you have to go to one of these passport offices in person. Additionally, you can only get a same day passport if you are expecting to travel internationally within the next two weeks.
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