<story><title>Americans will soon be able to renew passports online</title><url>https://www.cntraveler.com/story/americans-will-soon-be-able-to-renew-passports-online</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quag</author><text>From the USA it was faster (1 week), cheaper, and easier (all online, all digital, no mailing anything in) to renew my New Zealand passport, than it was to renew the US passport for the little one.&lt;p&gt;We were left with the impression that the USA just doesn’t care about improving these things. So it’s nice to see that the improvements are coming, they just took a while.</text></item><item><author>spacedcowboy</author><text>I renewed my UK passport from 6000 miles away in sunny CA. Took a week for it to arrive. Just been to the post office to renew the kids US passport which requires both parents to be there or notarized documents to say why not. Estimated delivery is 14 weeks.&lt;p&gt;My (US) wife continues to be in awe of the UK services compared to the US. I just wish the bus would come on time when I&amp;#x27;m over there...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>&amp;gt; We were left with the impression that the USA just doesn’t care about improving these things.&lt;p&gt;The anti-statism in the US turns readily into &amp;quot;if you interact with the state, it should be a miserable underfunded experience&amp;quot; rather than &amp;quot;since it has to happen, we&amp;#x27;re going to make it easy and convenient so as not to consume too much time, money and energy from our citizens&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;(unless a libertarian wants to argue that the US should simply not issue passports at all and .. leave it up to private enterprise somehow?)</text></comment>
<story><title>Americans will soon be able to renew passports online</title><url>https://www.cntraveler.com/story/americans-will-soon-be-able-to-renew-passports-online</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quag</author><text>From the USA it was faster (1 week), cheaper, and easier (all online, all digital, no mailing anything in) to renew my New Zealand passport, than it was to renew the US passport for the little one.&lt;p&gt;We were left with the impression that the USA just doesn’t care about improving these things. So it’s nice to see that the improvements are coming, they just took a while.</text></item><item><author>spacedcowboy</author><text>I renewed my UK passport from 6000 miles away in sunny CA. Took a week for it to arrive. Just been to the post office to renew the kids US passport which requires both parents to be there or notarized documents to say why not. Estimated delivery is 14 weeks.&lt;p&gt;My (US) wife continues to be in awe of the UK services compared to the US. I just wish the bus would come on time when I&amp;#x27;m over there...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>diogenescynic</author><text>&amp;gt;We were left with the impression that the USA just doesn’t care about improving these things.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think our politicians actually care. They prefer to fight culture wars and pay lip service to real issues.</text></comment>