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The Passport Crunch is Over!

The Passport Crunch is Over! Sep 11th, 2007 at 10:59AM: The State Department optimistically announced September 7 that Americans can now receive passports "in a timely and secure fashion." The wait is allegedly back to to 6-8 weeks for a standard application and 3 weeks for expedited service. In order to deal with the massive backlog of applications, the department hired hundreds of new adjudicators, temporarily transferred employees to passport ...

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