Update: Tomorrow's Passport Day Has Been Cancelled
Update 2pm, April 8: The State Department announced only 30 minutes ago that Passport Day 2011 will no happen because of the pending government shutdown. There is currently no word on a rescheduled date, but we'll keep our ears open for more news.
What are you doing this weekend? Aside from running on a runway, of course. Hopefully if you're reading this, you've already got a passport and just need a slew of extra pages inserted, or perhaps an entirely new passport if yours is inching up on its expiration date. We won't give you a dirty look if you've never had a passport, but only if you promise to hit tomorrow's Passport Day and correct that.
Passport Day returns this year as a way to give working men, women and families—who otherwise can't make Passport offices' limited weekday business hours—a chance to turn in their paperwork and deal with passport-related issues. Offices around the country—check out the full list of participating branches HERE—will stay open from 10am to 3pm and will not require appointments.
Passport Day is no joke, either. This might be the third year that the government has done it, but in their first year alone they said they collected over 57,000 passport applications around the country on just the one day. Judging from the round-the-block line (above) we saw at the Passport offices on Hudson Street in New York City on Passport Day 2010, we're expecting that number to at least double. Get. there. early.
For the breakdown on the newish Passport fees and more, check out our previous coverage here and get all you need to know to apply for a new passport, new pages...whatever, here.
[Photos: Damian613]
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