{"id":386233,"date":"2023-02-28T06:06:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T20:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=386233"},"modified":"2023-02-28T06:06:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T20:06:25","slug":"passport-service-processing-times-expected-to-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/passport-service-processing-times-expected-to-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Passport service processing times expected to increase\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning Feb. 6, 2023, all passport service processing times are expected to increase with the seasonal rise in applications.<\/p>\n<p>Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (D-MP) said over the weekend in his e-kilili newsletter that CNMI residents can expect 8 to 11 weeks for routine processing and 5 to 7 weeks for expedited processing of their passport applications. He said these estimates do not include mail delivery service times.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan said the new service commitments apply only to applications executed or signed on or after Feb. 6, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>He said for inquiries and concerns, people may contact his congressional office.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Bureau of Consular Affairs, the processing times begin the day they receive the application at a passport agency or center, not the day it is mailed or applied.<\/p>\n<p>Mailing times may add several weeks on to the door-to-door time it takes to receive a passport. <em>(Ferdie de la Torre)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning Feb. 6, 2023, all passport service processing times are expected to increase with the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":386234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}