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US online passport renewal is now fully open for business

A photo of a person holding a US passport and an envelope.
The Verge’s Sean Hollister picking up his new passport at the post office. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge

If you read my colleague Sean Hollister’s positive experience renewing his US passport online through a beta website from the State Department — without needing to ship his old passport — I have good news for you: that experience is now available for everyone. You can access it right here.

“Instead of printing a paper application and mailing it with a check, Americans can now renew their passports through a secure process that will save time and effort,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken writes in an announcement about the program.

Right now, the renewal website is showing a six- to eight-week estimate for processing times, and the State Department notes that mailing times aren’t included in that estimate. That all means you may not get...

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Link :
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/19/24249413/us-online-passport-renewal-website