Passport 14-day expedite using dummy refundable Trip - Can I do this?

[Anonymous]

Expedited processing is 5-7weeks, and it really is. We got an appointment for DD's passport ~2mos before our planned trip, and the passport arrived on exactly the date the clerk told us it would (based on expedited processing + paying for FedEx shipping).

[Anonymous]

My husband just paid for an expedited processing and it was done in a couple weeks. Not sure what the delay is. I didn’t the same last year. It wasn’t emergency or anything, but cost us an extra $100.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband just paid for an expedited processing and it was done in a couple weeks. Not sure what the delay is. I didn’t the same last year. It wasn’t emergency or anything, but cost us an extra $100.

The delay is everyone like you needs a passport now. People went years over CoVID not looking at their passport or traveling. State Department has said they’re now processing 500,000 applications a week, and everyone wants it expedited.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Expedited processing is 5-7weeks, and it really is. We got an appointment for DD's passport ~2mos before our planned trip, and the passport arrived on exactly the date the clerk told us it would (based on expedited processing + paying for FedEx shipping).

It is now 7-9 weeks for expedited processing,

[Anonymous]

We expedited my sons passport in late February. It took 5 weeks from appointment to receipt. We did my other sons non expedited. It was eight weeks from appointment to delivery. Both were in person appointments.

[Anonymous]

We’ve done this a few times…once we used a hotel reservation, but the other times we used a confirmation number for a flight that we later cancelled. Our initial appt was in Buffalo, NY as the DC passport office was booked, but I called back early the next morning and was able to get an appt in DC. We had to pay more for the passports, but we got them the same day. Good luck👍

[Anonymous]

So you basically want to cut the line ahead of people who have already been waiting weeks. God you are selfish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So you basically want to cut the line ahead of people who have already been waiting weeks. God you are selfish.

DP here. Don’t hate the player hate the game. What OP is proposing is allowed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So you basically want to cut the line ahead of people who have already been waiting weeks. God you are selfish.

DP here. Don’t hate the player hate the game. What OP is proposing is allowed.

It is lying and cheating and people like you are exactly the reason why everything is harder for everyone else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So you basically want to cut the line ahead of people who have already been waiting weeks. God you are selfish.

DP here. Don’t hate the player hate the game. What OP is proposing is allowed.

It is lying and cheating and people like you are exactly the reason why everything is harder for everyone else.

No it’s harder because people aren’t planning ahead, you included.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So you basically want to cut the line ahead of people who have already been waiting weeks. God you are selfish.

DP here. Don’t hate the player hate the game. What OP is proposing is allowed.

It is lying and cheating and people like you are exactly the reason why everything is harder for everyone else.

If the government wanted to restrict it to true emergencies, they easily could. They don’t. They allow this. Sorry you don’t like it. Also, if they hired more staff, this could all be avoided. There is no reason it needs to take this long. None.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is a trip booked so close to going actually fully refundable? Sounds sketchy.

Southwest makes it easy to cancel flights, if you book with miles you get all your miles back

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is a trip booked so close to going actually fully refundable? Sounds sketchy.

Southwest makes it easy to cancel flights, if you book with miles you get all your miles back

Most flights booked with airline miles are fully refundable. And like a PP mentioned, a Canadian hotel reservation works too.

[Anonymous]

To the person who just said go 14 days before actual trip…l’m in San Francisco and my friend’s family had tickets to go to a family wedding in Cancun. She realized her daughter’s passport was expired. The only appointments she could get (calling daily, waiting as much as 3 hrs on hold and trying her congressperson) were for Puerto Rico or Honolulu. They ended up leaving their kids home with friends and the adults went to the wedding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To the person who just said go 14 days before actual trip…l’m in San Francisco and my friend’s family had tickets to go to a family wedding in Cancun. She realized her daughter’s passport was expired. The only appointments she could get (calling daily, waiting as much as 3 hrs on hold and trying her congressperson) were for Puerto Rico or Honolulu. They ended up leaving their kids home with friends and the adults went to the wedding.

Yeah. It’s not as easy to get these appointments as some posters make it out to be. I know a couple different people who tried daily and failed. A lady in one of my points & miles FB groups actually DID fly to Hawaii to get her passport renewed because she couldn’t find anything else. She used points of course!