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US Passport renewal experience @ Guad Consulate


NoVaDamer

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My wife and I needed to renew our passports, so we chose to make a day of it in Guadalajara. Ours was a simple renewal (no name change, passport less than 15 years old, passport in normal condition), so we checked on the website and it said we didn't need an appointment, we could "walk in" between 12 and 1230 Monday-Thursday. We drove up and parked at Chapultepec public parking garage (33 pesos) at the corner of Chapultepec Sur and Avenida Manueal Lopez Cotilla. We got to the Consulate around 1115 because traffic was so light (due to the gas shortage). The guard at the front window station checked to make sure we had all our documents and told us to be back at 1200. We went across the street and had a coffee at La Fortuna cafe, then came back around 10 minutes before noon. A small group of around six people had gathered for simple passport renewal.

A young lady double checked our paperwork and sent us through the metal detector (remember, no cell phones!). After that, we went inside the consulate building and up to a window where a man greeted us and asked whether we preferred English or Spanish. He reviewed our docs (3rd time) accepted our payment ($110 USD each, via credit card) gave us back our paperwork and sent us to a second window. There another helpful local national processed our paperwork. Our copies of our original passports were not legible, so he made new ones for us (he didn't have to, as they have signs everywhere and say they do NOT make copies). He took our passports and paperwork and filed then, then sent us to the FEDEX desk at the end of the room. He said the renewal would take two weeks to process.

After filling out a FEDEX delivery slip, we paid $220 MXP for delivery and were given our tracking numbers and shown the door leaving the consulate. Total time spent: less than 30 minutes.

Everyone was very friendly, the process went smoothly.

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