IR1 travel issue due to expired passport of child

[sharpie11 6]

Hi,

My wife has an approved IR1 and we have plans for her to travel to the US later this year. However, my 5 yr old daughter, who is a US citizen and is living with her in India and also needs to travel back to the US with her, has an expired passport (we thought renewals take only 3 weeks so we didn't renew earlier). Lately I have read reports of passport renewals taking massive amounts of time, and my wife's IR1 will expire by end of year. What could we do to resolve this (other than leaving the child behind with relatives)? Can we request an emergency passport , or ask the embassy what options we have to expedite the renewal of my daughter's passport? We do have a passport renewal appointment shortly at the consulate. Kind of in panic here trying to think of the right way to proceed..

 

Thanks!

[Crazy Cat 41,844]

Passports - U.S. Embassy & Consulates in India (usembassy.gov)

The processing time for routine passport renewals in India is 4-5 weeks. If you are traveling within the next 2 weeks, please click here for further information.

 

[Mike E 11,739]

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17 minutes ago, sharpie11 said:

my wife's IR1 will expire by end of year

Plenty of time to renew a US passport. Passport renewals to be started when the passport has just 6 months of validity. Apply Monday to renew.

[sharpie11 6]

26 minutes ago, Crazy Cat said:

Passports - U.S. Embassy & Consulates in India (usembassy.gov)

The processing time for routine passport renewals in India is 4-5 weeks. If you are traveling within the next 2 weeks, please click here for further information.

 

But the news articles (and state department) are saying that passport renewal is taking 10-13 weeks if not more....  https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/how-apply/processing-times.html

[Mike E 11,739]

8 minutes ago, sharpie11 said:

But the news articles (and state department) are saying that passport renewal is taking 10-13 weeks if not more....  https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/how-apply/processing-times.html

That is for U.S. citizens cannot renew at a U.S. embassy.

[sharpie11 6]

9 minutes ago, Mike E said:

That is for U.S. citizens cannot renew at a U.S. embassy.

Ok, got it so when we apply at a US consulate in India, it should take only 3-4 weeks as the consulate website says ? I was always under the impression that even if we applied at the consulate passports were renewed in the US by the same process as all other passport renewals applied stateside and mailed to the consulate who then forwarded the passport to us..

[Liam2021 583]

2 hours ago, sharpie11 said:

Ok, got it so when we apply at a US consulate in India, it should take only 3-4 weeks as the consulate website says ? I was always under the impression that even if we applied at the consulate passports were renewed in the US by the same process as all other passport renewals applied stateside and mailed to the consulate who then forwarded the passport to us..

Renew passport at US consulate is quicker, usually took 4-5 weeks. 10-13 weeks is the routine for people apply/renew their passport within the USA, so you have more than enough time.

[Crazy Cat 41,844]

1 hour ago, Liam2021 said:

Renew passport at US consulate is quicker, usually took 4-5 weeks. 10-13 weeks is the routine for people apply/renew their passport within the USA, so you have more than enough time.

Yep.  I suspect the OP was reading about state-side passport renewal times...which are horrendous. 

[Pumpkinspicechai 6]

It took 3 weeks to receive passports for both my children in India at the U.S Consulate. 

[sharpie11 6]

21 minutes ago, Shwee said:

It took 3 weeks to receive passports for both my children in India at the U.S Consulate. 

That is really great to hear.. thanks!!