Comments on: Passport Application Lines = Hell

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Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:01:33 +0000

[...] posted to my person blog was useful to others: one of the earliest blog entries I made was about the long passport lines in Calgary, and what a hassle it was to get a passport. One the surface, you could see that as some random guy [...]

By: neilck96

neilck96 — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:39:47 +0000

I went to the Harry Hays Passport office today. Here’s a link to my experience there: http://synch.vox.com/library/post/calgary-passort-line—harry-hays.html

By: shig

shig — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:21:45 +0000

Hello! I got all passport on Mar. 2!!! So, it takes only 3 weeks.

By: Jason Dunn

Jason Dunn — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:23:52 +0000

Glad to hear it worked out for you Shig – I’m sure you’ll get your passport in time!

By: shig

shig — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:55:46 +0000

Actually, I went to the downtown office today.
I arrived there around 6:15 a.m. and I was in the line in front of the stair.
I’ll go to Japan on last week of Mar. So I wanted to apply picking up passport at the office.
But I couldn’t do it because I’m not leave here in 20 days.
Anyway, the passport should arrive in 3 to 4 weeks by courier. (Praying…)

I’m glad to see your site and went there early morning.
It’s starting moving the line around 8:00
I’d done by around 9:30 a.m.

Thanks!

By: Jason Dunn

Jason Dunn — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:06:29 +0000

I’ve never been to the SE location, and I don’t know that I’d recommend it – I don’t know that there’s any place to wait, which means it would be very cold. The down town location has a place for you to wait in line because they open the building at 6am or so (you might want to call and check).

By: shig

shig — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:47:15 +0000

Did you apply at 220-4th Avenue South East?
Do you know what time is open the door of building?
How long will it take to get passport in your case?

I’v plan to go to the office on early next week.

Please let me know it.

Thank you

By: Jason Dunn

Jason Dunn — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:14:44 +0000

Yes, you can apply for a passport by mail, but it adds an additional 10 business days of processing – which would put me right at the edge of when I’d need it by. Lining up was my only choice.

And you’d think there’d be a way to renew your passport, but there isn’t: each time you’re re-applying from scratch. It’s a bad system.

By: Janak Parekh

Janak Parekh — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:08:58 +0000

Also, can’t you renew your passport by mail?

By: ctmagnus

ctmagnus — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 07:07:21 +0000

I’ve heard of lines like that in that office years ago. When I went to renew my passport a year or so ago, I walked into the building, went straight to the room with the red plastic chairs, and had to wait five minutes. Timing is everything .