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Casework Corner - Boyda's Office Can Speed Up Passport Applications
08/02/07By Joshua Dieker
District Representative
If you read this blog often or follow the news, you are probably aware that the past several months have seen a major backlog in the processing of passport applications. Fortunately, many travelers are contacting our office in hopes that we can speed up the process and save their vacations.
Our office has assisted in the neighborhood of 500 people in the district get their passports. I’m proud to have had a hand in many of those, but the story of one particular group sticks out in my mind: the Grace Episcopal Cathedral’s Youth Group. This organization has been planning for months a pilgrimage to London and Canterbury in the United Kingdom. They raised funds, they studied their history, and they prepared for an exciting and educational trip that they would never forget. Those who didn’t already have passports applied well in advance of the trip to ensure that they would receive their documents in plenty of time. What they didn’t count upon, however, was the “Passport Crisis of ’07.”
Michael Massey, Grace Cathedral’s Youth Director, contacted our office about a month in advance of the trip. He had heard about the backlog and began to worry that members of his youth group could be affected. The last thing he wanted was for some member of the group to have to see his or her compatriots off at the airport while not making the trip with them. He sent us a list of the travelers who still had not received their passports, and our office went to work tracking down each and every one of their applications. Several were in the Charleston passport office. A few more were in Houston. One of them was as far away as New Hampshire.
Days went by as each passport office worked to process each application. One by one they arrived in the mail until there were only a few still missing. The last one to arrive belonged to the group’s nurse. As one of few adult chaperones traveling with the group, her passport was indispensable to the success of the trip. Fortunately, just days before the group was to board the plane, her passport arrived via Federal Express at her door, and all were able to make the journey.
If you are traveling internationally within the next two to three weeks and you have not yet received your passport, please feel free to contact our office. We are able to work with the Passport Agency to expedite passport applications as well as have them shipped FedEx next-day when they are completed. Good luck, and happy travels!
District Representative
If you read this blog often or follow the news, you are probably aware that the past several months have seen a major backlog in the processing of passport applications. Fortunately, many travelers are contacting our office in hopes that we can speed up the process and save their vacations.
Our office has assisted in the neighborhood of 500 people in the district get their passports. I’m proud to have had a hand in many of those, but the story of one particular group sticks out in my mind: the Grace Episcopal Cathedral’s Youth Group. This organization has been planning for months a pilgrimage to London and Canterbury in the United Kingdom. They raised funds, they studied their history, and they prepared for an exciting and educational trip that they would never forget. Those who didn’t already have passports applied well in advance of the trip to ensure that they would receive their documents in plenty of time. What they didn’t count upon, however, was the “Passport Crisis of ’07.”
Michael Massey, Grace Cathedral’s Youth Director, contacted our office about a month in advance of the trip. He had heard about the backlog and began to worry that members of his youth group could be affected. The last thing he wanted was for some member of the group to have to see his or her compatriots off at the airport while not making the trip with them. He sent us a list of the travelers who still had not received their passports, and our office went to work tracking down each and every one of their applications. Several were in the Charleston passport office. A few more were in Houston. One of them was as far away as New Hampshire.
Days went by as each passport office worked to process each application. One by one they arrived in the mail until there were only a few still missing. The last one to arrive belonged to the group’s nurse. As one of few adult chaperones traveling with the group, her passport was indispensable to the success of the trip. Fortunately, just days before the group was to board the plane, her passport arrived via Federal Express at her door, and all were able to make the journey.
If you are traveling internationally within the next two to three weeks and you have not yet received your passport, please feel free to contact our office. We are able to work with the Passport Agency to expedite passport applications as well as have them shipped FedEx next-day when they are completed. Good luck, and happy travels!