# Passport renewal--where to start?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passport-renewal-where-to-start/537612>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 28, 2010, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passport-renewal-where-to-start/537612 "2010-04-28T11:16:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passport-renewal-where-to-start/537612/21 "2010-05-10T14:13:14Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> …As others have said, the rest of the process is dirt simple and totally painless. Go online, display the PDF & fill it out, print the filled form. Then mail the form, your photos, your old passport and a check to the address on the form. The new PP comes back in \<2 weeks by priority mail & the old one comes back via first class a week later with a hole punched in it.

If you are applying for a first-time passport or if your expired passport was issued more than 15 years ago, you can’t just mail the forms in. You have to apply in person at a [Passport Acceptance Facility](http://iafdb.travel.state.gov/), which includes many U.S. post offices, clerks of court, public libraries, and local government offices that will accept passport applications on behalf of the Department of State.

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