Passport update

Here's an update on our passports. It looks like the US has started requiring passports to Canada and Mexico? for flights from the US into these countries. This has caused the time to get a passport to go from an estimated 6-8 weeks to more like 14-15 weeks or longer. They are pretty much on a system of whoever is leaving this week will get their passport, but no one else. You can check status online, but basically there are 2 statuses: 1) we are working on it, 2) it is done and in the mail. Not very useful. They have a phone number to call, but you get a message saying to call back later. We wrote in a few emails saying we were leaving in a week (not true, but we need our passports for the Visa application process), and we finally got ours after like 13 weeks. If anyone is looking to get a passport renewed or a get a new one, make sure to check the current wait times as I think this will go on for a year or more before they get caught up. Now that we have our passports, we have to send them to the consulate in Los Angeles with our application for a Visa. Hopefully we will get them back in time.

Matthew