Published a week later than originally expected, the Practical Traveler column in the Sunday New York Times Travel Section (10/1/06) had the headline, “New Passport Rules May Mean Delays.” The column discusses how obtaining a passport through normal Passport Services procedures may take longer than usual.
NAPVS firms are listed as an option for obtaining passport services in an expedited fashion. Specifically, the article states,
“There are also private rush services that specialize in speeding customers through the bureaucracy. For varying fees, these companies can often get passports approved in as little as 24 hours. (A list of expediting services is at www.napvs.org.) But in recent years, some passport agencies have been reducing the number of daily submissions such rush companies are allowed. The New York regional passport agency used to allow them to submit applications in unlimited numbers; in February it limited each company to 20 or fewer a day.”
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