Get your Passport Application Status (2024)

• Get a Passport

• Renew or Replace a Passport

• Get My Passport Fast

• Prepare to Apply

• Passport Help

• Legal Matters

• Apply for your First Adult Passport

• Apply for a Child Under 16

• Apply as a 16 or 17 Year Old

• Get My Application Status

• Get a Passport Card

• Respond to a Letter or Email

• Apply Outside the United States

• Selecting your Gender Marker

• Crossing the U.S.-Mexico Border by Land

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If you have waited over two weeks since we mailed your passport, call us at 1-877-487-2778(or1-888-874-7793if you are deaf or hard of hearing).

We will help you complete a special form (known as the DS-86 form) which is a signed statement that you didn't receive your U.S. passport.

You must complete the DS-86 form within 90 days of the date we issued your passport. After 90 days, you must reapply and pay all fees, by law.

Call us at1-877-487-2778(or1-888-874-7793if you are deaf or hard of hearing). You’ll need either your application number or your last name and date of birth.

• Get expedited service for $60.
• Get 1-2 day delivery of your completed passport book for $19.53. One-to-two day delivery is not available for passport cards. We only send cards via First Class Mail.

Do not contact us if your address changedafteryou received your passport.

Contact us only if your mailing address changed while you are waiting for your passport.

If you want to receive your passport at an address other than your own, we will send the passport “In Care Of” someone else who lives at that address.

Still In Transit: Your application status is "Not Available" because your application is still in transit to a passport agency or center. After you apply, your application is:

1. Delivered to a mail facility. Your tracking number may say that your application has "Arrived" at the mail facility.
2. Sent from the mail facility to an intake facility where your payment is processed (check is cashed).
3. Sent by the intake facility to a passport agency or center.

It may take up to 2 weeks from the day you apply until your application status is "In Process" at one of our passport agencies and centers.

Problem with your Application: In some cases, it may take longer than 2 weeks if our intake facility finds a problem with your application. We will contact you if we need more information.

Technical Issue: We may have a temporary, technical issue with our system. Please try again in several hours.

Entering Your Last Name: If you cannot find a status update on the first try, make sure the name you enter is spelled the same as the name you provided on your passport form. If you have a hyphen in your name, try entering your name with and without the hyphen.

Your status may be "Mailed" if you received a new passport in the last 180 days, and you are re-applying for a new passport. For example, you may need to useForm DS-5504 if you need to Change or Correct Your Passport. It may take 2 weeks after the date you apply on Form DS-5504 for your status to change to "In Process."

You may see this update if we discovered a problem we need to fix during our final review of your passport. We are fixing the issue and preparing to print a new passport for you.

You will get multiple mailings. The number of mailings depends on what document(s) you asked for.

Passport Book:You may get your new passport and citizenship documents in two mailings.You may wait 8 weeks after getting your passport before you get a second mailing with your citizenship documents. We will return the passport book using a trackable delivery service.

Passport Card:You may get your new passport card and your citizenship documents in two mailings.You may wait 8 weeks after getting your passport before you get a second mailing with your citizenship documents. We only send the passport card via First Class Mail. We do not send cards using 1-2 day delivery services.

Both a Passport Book and Card:You may get three separate mailings:

1. New passport book
2. New passport card
3. Citizenship documents

Contacting Us: If you have been waiting more than 8 weeks for your citizenship documents, call us at1-877-487-2778.

The first two digits of your nine-digit passport application locator number allow you to know which agency or center is working on your application. You can find your application locator number by checking ourOnline Passport Status System. The unique digits for each of our agencies and centers are below.