We'll send you an email when we despatch your passport. Your passport should arrive within a week after that. If you're an adult applying online, you can nominate a delivery address that's different to your residential address, including a PO Box, but not a parcel locker. Mailing arrangements overseas vary by location.
How long does it take to get a passport? Whether you apply in Australia or overseas, you should allow a minimum of 6 weeks to get a new passport.
Go to Application Status section of the State Department website. Click on the Online Passport Status System link to check your application status. Enter your last name, date of birth, and the last four digits of your Social Security Number.
We're currently receiving 25 per cent more passport applications compared to pre-pandemic levels for this time of year. Passport application processing times are down. However, processing times will vary during the year, and we expect they will rise in the lead up to peak travel times.
Priority processing
We'll process priority applications in two business days from when we receive your application from Australia Post. If you lodge your application for priority processing at a selected Australia Post 'Passport RAPID' location, we'll get your documents even faster.
Australians faced excessive delays from early 2022, waiting an average of 50 days to receive their passports at the peak of demand, due to the poor planning by the previous government. We can now say, these delays have been rectified.
If you have been waiting more than 8 weeks, contact the National Passport Information Center at 1-877-487-2778 to report that you have not received your documents.
As per Government regulations, the standard time to get your Indian passport is 30 to 45 days from the date of application.
Routine processing will take 10-13 weeks and expedited processing, which costs an additional $60, will take 7-9 weeks. These new processing times only apply to new applications submitted on or after March 24. Processing time begins the day we receive an application and do not include mailing time.
Your Australian passport must be valid (not expired) on the day of your arrival in Australia. It does not need to have six months remaining validity to enter Australia unless you are passing through a third country that requires it.
Adult passports are valid for 10 years.
Your passport document number is just one of many data points included on a standard Australian passport. The passport number is located on the same page as your photograph and is sometimes called a document number. You can find your document number in the top right-hand corner of the information page.
If your passport goes missing in the mail, you must call us on 131 232 or contact an Australian diplomatic or consular mission within 60 days from when we mailed you the passport.
We also send important information via emails, text messages and letters.
Routine service takes 10-13 weeks. You can apply for routine service at an acceptance facility or renew by mail. Mailing times are not included in processing times. Processing times only include the time your application is at one of our passport agencies or centers.
But ever since international borders reopened, the Australian Passport Office (APO) has seen unprecedented demand for the documents, causing wait times to blow out. Last year's Optus data leak also forced people whose personal information had been compromised to apply for new passports, adding to the backlog.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade issues passports to be used as evidence of identity and citizenship by Australians travelling internationally. Lodge your passport application at Australia Post. This includes applications for which priority service is requested.
I did not get an arrival/departure stamp in my passport when I went to Australia — why not? From 1 December 2012, the Australian Government ceased date stamping travellers' passports on arrival and departure from Australia unless a stamp is requested by the traveller.
Travelers can get their passports expedited at a passport agency or center if they have international travel plans within 14 days through the Urgent Travel Service. In this case, you must call 1-877-487-2778 to make an appointment with a passport agency. There is also a Life-or-Death Emergency Service.
Any adult who became a permanent resident on or after 1 July 2007 must have been lawfully residing in Australia for four years immediately before applying for Australian citizenship. This includes: 12 months as a permanent resident. absences from Australia of no more than 12 months.