Larsen applied for her son's passport two months earlier and spent weeks checking for updates online or through a frustrating call system. Then the State Department upped the wait time for a regular passport to as much as 13 weeks. Her quest for three passports stretched from January to June, days before travel. She’d applied for her son’s passport two months earlier and spent weeks checking for updates online or through a frustrating call system. All on a bet that her son’s passport was indeed shipped as promised.

Source: Huffington Post July 03, 2023 11:25 UTC