From the Passport up.

[shaun]

I applied for my passport a few weeks ago.  Today I noticed that my check cleared for the passport.

Can I assume that since the check has been cashed that my passport will arrive soon?

Shaun

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I thought I might list a few things needed to get your new wife a Visa to the US here.  I need a list to check to make sure I have everything.  So guys if I am missing something, post away.

G-325 A, Biographic Information document. You need 4 original forms with her original signature.

[Martin]

Um...this cheque was sent to the government?  HAHAHA...Don't assume anything!

[shaun]

Gee,  Thanks! :icon_cheesygrin:

[ttwjr32]

shaun,
when my check cleared i got my passport in 3 weeks
but of course that was 5 years ago

[Willy The Londoner]

You still use checks in the US?   The UK banks are phasing them out in the next year or so as hardly anyone uses them here nowadays.

Willy

[shaun]

Same here Willy but we are talking the US Government.  We can used the Post Office to apply for the passport but the only make sure the paperwork is correct, take a picture and send it to Washington DC.  The government still does the work.

I write a personal check maybe once a month or less.  Business wise I write a check for everything.  I could used debit but there is always a fee associated with the debit card in business.

Ted,  I hope you are not correct, it has been there 4 weeks already.  They said 3-6 that would be 7.

[Martin]

I gotta give the Canadian Government a bit of a plug....normally I don't like to do this.  When i applied for my daughters passport this past spring, it took just under two weeks to get her passport.  I was absolutely blown away.  The Canadian Government specializes in dragging its feet.

[David5o]

Had to renew my passport last year. I phoned the UK embassy here for an application form, and it arrived the following day. Duly filled it all in and posted it the same day along with my expired passport. I received my new passport in 5 days. I could have gone to the embassy in Nicosia and received it the same day, but wasn't in any hurry this time. Another reason, the Nicosia traffic is absolute Madness during the day...lol!! (Not as Bad as in China i hasten to add..lol!!)

From what i can make out, The American passport system is somewhat antiquated compared to most other western countries, especially Europe

David.....

[ttwjr32]

i dont think you can get anything done in the USA
 in 5 days. when i got mine in 3 weeks people were
 amazed

[zook144]

When I applied for my U.S. Passport about the middle of December of last year, it only took 5 days to receive it. Absolutely amazed me. I was told about 2 weeks when I filled out the paperwork at the Post Office.
Don

[shaun]

Tomorrow is the 5 week mark.  Still not passport.

[David5o]

I reckon it's all down to your Homeland Security!! you must have set off some red flags ...and are now a suspicious character that needs checking out. So what have you been up too Shaun?? You can tell us mate....haha!!

David.....

[shaun]

Only talking with you guys and a couple of ladies in China.  So David, what do we really know about you?  Why are you living in exile from England?  Hmmm... When was the last time you were in China?   Hmmmm...

[Willy The Londoner]

But do you know that in the Pentagon or some other department there is someone whose sole task day in day out is to monitor this website.  As there are with thousands of other websites that have any connection with something Chinese..   The US spends millions on this.

They do the same in the UK but due to Gordon Brown cutbacks they make do with the cleaning woman doing it in her tea break!!!!

Willy

[Vince G]

Shhhhiitttt!!!  I have to call the pentagon. Let them pay me? I'm here anyway.