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State Department Redefines Expedited To Three Weeks: You're Screwed

August 20, 2007 at 3:39 PM | 0 Comments

Good news, according to the State Department, if you paid for expedited processing, you will get your passport in 3 days... if each day is 168 hours long. Yep, new turnaround time for U.S. passports with the $60 expedited fee is three weeks. Long ago we told you there were no guarantees with the $60 fee, and we explained how to navigate the current passport application logjam -- nothing has changed there.

Aside from now assigning a time frame to "expedite", and who knows if that time frame will actually hold -- allot ten weeks people -- there is still plenty of talk about hiring 800 more workers to handle the burgeoning passport trade.

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