Oh, final thing: I don't know if Vancouverites have started doing this, but Victoria's large-ish hom

Most of my family's passports expired in March. I went to Sinclair Centre to check it out because I have heard how bad it was. Saw the lineup and decided to mail in the application norwegian cruise line sell offs because the line was too long and I don't need to travel until Summer.
I cannot figure out why the passport office have to make people wait in line just to get a number, norwegian cruise line sell offs then wait a bit more to get processed. Why can't they give the number out at 9am? Even if they cannot process everybody they should have an assessment norwegian cruise line sell offs on how many they can process a day with the understanding that the number works only for that day. I actually posted a comment on the passport Canada website but of course I get no reply.
Interesting. I just got my passport norwegian cruise line sell offs in preparation for my trip to Kenya in May. In the US (apparently our passport processing system is under strain right now too?), passport application is as simple as going to the post office with a wad of cash ($200 in my case) in hand and various forms of ID. The nearest post office that dealt with passports had a single person for the entire building, and just two people in line to mail stuff. They took my photo, had me fill out some paperwork, stuck my application in the express mail envelope, and I was done. Aside from the part where I had to make two attempts because the first attempt was during their lunch break, I think it took no more than 5 or 10 minutes. The main reason that it's so short, obviously, is because all of the time-consuming work is done off-site at a passport processing center somewhere and then they just mail you back your passport.
In the past, going from US to Mexico and visa versa has actually been trivially easy with no passport required (even after getting chased through norwegian cruise line sell offs the desert by corrupt federales, but that is another story). I have not tried to cross the border by car in a few years though, so perhaps that has changed... I somehow norwegian cruise line sell offs doubt it though.
As a Candian living norwegian cruise line sell offs in the US I had to renew my passport by mail in February. It took 6 weeks from the day I fedexed off the application until the new passport arrived by courier. Five years ago it only took about a week and a half. So I'd say there definitely is a crunch on ...
I (a U.S. citizen) had a similar experience to Bob Aman's two years ago, except that I skipped the post office entirely. I went to a travel agency and paid slightly more with a credit card, but no standing norwegian cruise line sell offs on line at all. (Yeah, I live in New York City.)
I also paid a hurry-up-quick fee, and got the passports sent back by overnight mail. All this was necessary because I had lost my non-driver's license (yeah, I still live in New York City), and I needed to make it to Extreme Markup Languages.
hehe even the servers cant handle the traffic, this is what it states on the website "High traffic is significantly increasing the systems norwegian cruise line sell offs response time. We encourage you to use the system during off-peak hours, on weeknights from 9 pm to 6 am (EST) and on weekends."
Definitely a stark contrast to what I experienced last September before the US passport requirement was announced. I needed norwegian cruise line sell offs a passport very quickly because I was invited to a conference in Vegas at the last minute...
On the advice of my friends norwegian cruise line sell offs I filled out the application online norwegian cruise line sell offs ahead of time and at the passport office in downtown Ottawa (around norwegian cruise line sell offs 10am) I barely had my ass in the seat in the waiting area before my number was called. Others in the waiting room gave me some minor stink-eye as I strolled out after about 5 minutes. I had my expedited passport less than a week later in time for the trip and I was very impressed.
I thought my 45 minute ordeal for a passport was bad, but 9 hours? That's about 8 hours and 45 minutes too long. And there's no reasonable explanation for needing passports to travel between Canada and the US, when there's never been a major issue before.
Heyo, just got my passport norwegian cruise line sell offs too. Went to the passport office in downtown Montreal (after norwegian cruise line sell offs having downloaded the from from the net). Waited 2 hours. Got my passport in the mail in 2 weeks. This was not expedited.
Re. passports: I live in Victoria right now, and the line-up for the passport office downtown norwegian cruise line sell offs is unbelievable. What I find striking is that so many people norwegian cruise line sell offs vehemently resent the fact that ANYONE dares to criticise the government for this mess, and instead blames "laggards" and "stupid" people for not being organised enough to apply for passports norwegian cruise line sell offs "in time." But you have to wonder just how much "time" you're supposed to allow for getting a vital document. The people who blame the citizens/ consumers think that you should apply for a new passport at least 6 months before your old one expires. Since Canadian passports are only valid for 5 years, however, that's an onerous expectation, IMO. A Canadian passport costs over $100 (with taxes) but it expires in 5 years, vs the US passport which is valid for 10 years. (Yet it's not twice as expensive.)
If you're interested, the local paper (Times-Colonist) finally ran an editorial criticising passport procedures, and included a string of letters written to the editor, too. Reading some of the letters, I can't help but get the impression that mailed in applications were expedited not in order received, but on the basis of how soon the person needed their passport. There are a couple of horror stories of people sending their documents in early, norwegian cruise line sell offs without hearing anything back in months.
Oh, final thing: I don't know if Vancouverites have started doing this, but Victoria's large-ish homeless norwegian cruise line sell offs population was tapped by some intrepid applicants. Street people were "hired" to stand/ sit in line while applicants went on errands or to work -- sounds like an interesting, creative, possibly entrepreneurial idea. But this in turn raised a stink because "respectable" people didn't want to stand cheek-to-jowl norwegian cruise line sell offs on the freezing pavements with vagrants and drug addicts.
Or perhaps, with his face already being rubbed into the passport failings, the nice docile Canadian citizen was too obviously reminded of yet another government shortfall (providing affordable housing, dealing with the mentally ill, addressing drug addiction, etc. etc.)...?
I'm a Canadian citizen living in the U.S. (Oregon) and realized too late that by mailing my passport norwegian cruise line sell offs application Feb 20th to Gatineau that they wouldn't even open it until around the time I need to travel (May 1st).
I'm now considering driving to the passport office in person in Vancouver (only a 20-hour round trip!) and applying for an urgent/expedited passport. That seems to be the only possible way to be able to travel (going to Peru).
The only thing is that I don't know for sure is if they will even accept my application (form PPTC 140 as opposed to PPTC 044) for processing. Does anybody have any idea? I've been trying like mad to call the passport office but the lines are so jammed I can't even get put on hold. I'd hate to drive all that way, wait in line for hours, just to be turned away.
Sinclaire norwegian cruise line sell offs Centre - I arrived this morning at 5:15am. The line up is now outside only so bring blankets. There were about 100 people in the line. The first 5 arrived at 10pm last night. They were homeless people who were selling thier spot. The people after them arrived at 3am. I paid the first guy in line $60. When I got to the wicket I showed proof of travel (May 3rd) and paid and extra $10. They told me to come pick up my ticket on May 2nd. After waiting outside for 2 1/4 hours, I was in by 7:30, out by 7:40.