Comments on: The Great Passport Wait Continued http://www.daftmusings.com/2007/06/22/the-great-passport-wait-continued/ by Carolyn Bickford Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:38:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cathy Symes http://www.daftmusings.com/2007/06/22/the-great-passport-wait-continued/#comment-111 Cathy Symes Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:13:10 +0000 http://www.daftmusings.com/?p=315#comment-111 <p>I am so happy to read your story. Not because you have had to wait so long for your passport, but because we are in the same situation. My husband and I have been planning our belated honeymoon for over a year. I have received my updated passport and he applied for his in March. We have yet to see any sign of his passport and even though we are 7 weeks from departure I am super stressed out about it. If you applied for yours in march myabe my husband's will be coming soon. We have hit our 16 week wait and I really hope we don't have to make the 7 hour trip to Chicago so stand in line at the agency. I am NOT comfortable waiting two weeks before our departure date to call. I read of so many people who have gotten nowhere with this. Your story has given me a little hope. All I can picture is me by myself in Ireland for three weeks. :(</p> cjb adds: I asked Cathy to let me know when her husband's passport arrived, to give others a realistic view of how long the process is taking these days. Last week (let's say July 23) her husband called their State Representative, and woman in that office contacted the passport office. The passport was being processed but thanks to their representative's assistant, it was put on priority. Exactly 18 weeks after he applied, the passport arrived. I am so happy to read your story. Not because you have had to wait so long for your passport, but because we are in the same situation. My husband and I have been planning our belated honeymoon for over a year. I have received my updated passport and he applied for his in March. We have yet to see any sign of his passport and even though we are 7 weeks from departure I am super stressed out about it. If you applied for yours in march myabe my husband’s will be coming soon. We have hit our 16 week wait and I really hope we don’t have to make the 7 hour trip to Chicago so stand in line at the agency. I am NOT comfortable waiting two weeks before our departure date to call. I read of so many people who have gotten nowhere with this. Your story has given me a little hope. All I can picture is me by myself in Ireland for three weeks. :(

cjb adds: I asked Cathy to let me know when her husband’s passport arrived, to give others a realistic view of how long the process is taking these days. Last week (let’s say July 23) her husband called their State Representative, and woman in that office contacted the passport office. The passport was being processed but thanks to their representative’s assistant, it was put on priority. Exactly 18 weeks after he applied, the passport arrived.

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