recent passport applications

[pinac 0]

I am wondering if anyone has any recent experience in getting a new passport while in the US.

From the passport canada web site they are saying that the current processing time is up to 9 weeks (45 business days), and I am wondering if anyone knows how accurate this is.

thanks

[warlord 73]

Probably pretty accurate, I send mine in a month ago and haven't heard anything since. My parents checked it out for me before and said it was so swamped that it was expected to take up to 3 months or so...

[Reba 2]

I've read of people camping out at passport offices just trying to get a new passport in the past month or two, and they'll stand there all day and not get in! They go back day after day until they get to the front of the line.

I imagine the mail-in isn't going to be much better. A bit more comfortable perhaps, but not any quicker!

[nhm 0]

I'm not sure about how long it takes from the US. I went to the Passpost office in Winnipeg to get my passport renewed on February 1st, waited there for just about 4 hours. The office opened @ 8am, and I arrived at about 8:15am. The security guard said that people were arriving daily at 6:00am to wait until the office opened. I received my brand new passport on February 21st in the mail... about 3 weeks, not bad.

[Catou1181 0]

I went on February 1st in Montreal. Told them I had a travel date mid-march.

I recieved my passport on Tuesday the 6th of March

[cdancer 0]

The passport situation in Canada is an absolute nightmare! what the website says is correct!

The passport office is getting 20.000 applications a day! They had to hire 200 people to help

out with the back load!

I live on Vancouver Island...people are lining up at the Victoria Passport office from midnight

on...get this...Passport applicants are paying Victoria's homeless people anywhere from

$100 to $300 to stand in line for them until the Passport office opens at 8:30 am then switch

places. One of my clients was standing in line and somebody offered her $300 to sell her

spot in line! That's how desperate the situation is!!!

[Flames9_RN 358]

Ya, I read that online!! Damn I wish Iwas back in Victoria, couild make a few extra $$, lolOf course there are enough homelless that one would have to fight off, especially that grumpy guy in the wheelchair!!!