Appealing to your Congressmember gets them to do their jobs accordingly. Would give negative star if I could. I got my passport on Tuesday but it took CALLING MY CONGRESSMAN AND MAKING A CASE for it to arrive on time. Called the passport center within the 5 day time period as they force you to do if you’ve already applied. NO APPTS IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY!!! It’s ridiculous. I feel for those who say they couldn’t get theirs in time. My biggest advice to help: do it early, or, if those fools don’t help- try to get your Congressmember to step in. Within a day of my congressman’s office filing with them, they got it to me. The customer service is horrid. They put you on hold for HOURS and when I ask to be transferred, I either get put on hold for another ridiculous amount of time, or, they HANG UP THE PHONE. The supervisors are useless. Seriously, do this 6 months or a year before if you had the chance, there’s no relying on them. (Paid for expedited service and 1 day shipping). A failure of the federal government and true show of the bureaucratic mess.

Lady answered the phone and kept asking… Lady answered the phone and kept asking me questions and when I answered her and told her what happened with my passport that was sent with an error she told me she didn’t ask that and she was being so rude, I waited 2 hours on the phone until someone Answered and then she answered so rudely after she didn’t find appointment she hang up. What kind of customer service is that? Waited so long for someone to be so rude this si frustrating because they don’t help and on top of that are disrespectful.

Gross incompetence When I was turned back at the passport application office for a Naturalization Certificate discrepancy, I was first told that I had to replace it to the tune of $345.00. Not believing this, I inquired further only to be given conflicting information during a 5-hour marathon of ineptness. It was my 59 year-old husband who haphazardly found the federal form that stated no alteration was needed if the name change occurred through court order or by marriage. All you married women out there be advised!!!

WORSE THAN THE DMV I do NOT give this place one star.....but there's no negative star option. This government agency is a complete joke. I am so disappointed in and embarrassed for this agency. More than 3 months waiting for my mom's passport. She's never traveled outside the country......we finally book a cruise for her 80th BIRTHDAY....and she will now not be able to attend. I paid for expedited....the idiot never processed it as expedited. I have spent over 28 hours on hold with this ridiculous place over a two week span. THIS IS NOT OK FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!!! NOT OK!!!!

I initially called within 14 days of my… I initially called within 14 days of my travel date. I was on hold for 5 hours, literally,. Then when they finally got on the line, they asked for my locator number, then said that I need to monitor their website and if we dont receive them in a few days to call back. So I called back at 5am California time and waited for 1 hour to get an appt, the only appt available was the same day at 10:30am in El Paso, Texas. It was the only available appt in the country. My travel date is a few days away and we expedited and over nighted our passports. Their wntire system needs an overhaul, they have a completely out dated platform. Our only options are to push back our trip , thankfully we have trip insurance.