Taylor was ultimately able to make her family trip to the Dominican Republic. "She literally walked me over to a station and said, ‘We need to give her a passport right now.’" "The woman that was working there, she saw me. The stress caused Taylor to have a panic attack. And we have been trying for several weeks to get her an appointment." MORE TRAVEL NEWS "And we're told that she wasn't getting it because she did not have an appointment. Showed up at 5:30 in the morning," Adrienne said. "So we waited until 24 hours before her travel. The Listers were then told to come back 24 hours before her flight. People are already frustrated, stressed out and confused." Like I mean, you feel like you've done something wrong," she said. "They treat you so disrespectfully there. They were told to come back 48 hours before their trips.Īnd to add to the frustration, Taylor’s mom, Adrienne Lister, says the workers were far from friendly. The department says people need to plan for another 4 weeks for shipping times.Īfter weeks of trying to get a follow-up appointment, the Listers decided to try to go in person. "I can't imagine being at home with my relatives while my kids and husband get on that plane to Canterbury," she said."We started at the beginning of April, and I was planning on going to the Dominican Republic with my cousin for her graduation trip," she said.Īccording to the State Department, processing times are four weeks longer than earlier this year, now up to 9 to 13 weeks. In the meantime, Linda's trip to England is in two weeks and she's praying for a last-minute miracle. And we're throwing everything we can at this to try to make sure that people have those blue books."īut the outlook is still grim, with wait times not expected to go down until later this year. "But that's just a reflection of the fact that demand is higher than it's ever been. "We will issue more passports this year than in any previous year," said Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Monday. The wait time for applications to process is up to 13 weeks, and the State Department is processing as many as 400,000 applications every week. Now she's stuck in limbo, which has only been made worse by tremendous passport delays. "It turned out that they processed my passport but they had an address that's incorrect," she said. She and her daughters applied for renewals in March, and while her daughters received her passports within weeks, Linda did not. "I have been looking forward to this for years to be able to do this, and do this with my daughters," she said.īut now she fears she can't go because she doesn't have her passport. Linda Maclachlan and her 15-year-old twin daughters are members of the choir at Christ Church in Winnetka, which has been invited to sing at Canterbury Cathedral in England in August, a rare and special honor. State Department said travel overseas has soared post-pandemic, and it can take at least three months to process passport applications. (WLS) - A north suburban woman has been waiting for months to get her renewed passport, and now may miss out on a trip of a lifetime. A Winnetka woman may now miss out on a trip of a lifetime due to U.S.
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