U.S. to Speed Up Passport Processing With Online Renewals and More Agencies
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With faster passport renewals, Americans will have an easier time traveling internationally.
In December 2023, the State Department said it had brought passport processing times to their pre-pandemic levels of six to eight weeks. Two moves in the past two weeks could help bring them down further.
Earlier this week, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said his office is establishing a half-dozen new passport agencies to meet the demand. This will bring the State Department's total network to 35 and over 7,400 public passport a
