Effective as of yesterday, Monday, January 10, 2022, the fees for delivery of a passport book within one day or two days increased from $17.56 to $18.32 — which is a difference of 76 cents and comes only two weeks after the fees for a passport book increased by $20.00 due to an increase in the security surcharge component of the application for a passport.
Another Passport Fee Increase January 2022 — But This One is Optional and Only 76 Cents
The Department of State of the United States generally sets consular fees at an amount calculated to recover the costs to the federal government of the United States of providing the consular service.
No official announcement or statement from the Department of State of the United States pertaining to this latest fee increase of the delivery of a passport book within one day or two days was found at the time this article was written.
Click here for a file in portable document format of the former chart of fees for passports, which is shown below…
…and click here for a file in portable document format of the current chart of fees for passports, which is shown below.
Final Boarding Call
I am not sure why the fee to deliver a passport book within one day or two days increased — and by only 76 cents, at that — but I can only surmise that the cost of shipping must have increased.
Other articles at The Gate of which passports are a topic include:
- Passport Fees to Increase Effective December 27 2021
- First United States Passport Issued With an X Gender Marker
- You Can Now Change Your Gender On Your Passport — And You Will Be Able to Select From a Third Gender
- You May Enter the United States on an Expired Passport — If…
- Stupid Tip of the Day: Create Your Own Passport Photographs
- Stupid Tip of the Day: One Simple Way to Get Through Passport Control Faster…
- One Way to Expedite Your Passport Renewal Free of Charge — But It is Not Without Risk
- Reader Question: Work Permit in a Passport Which is Almost Full
- Running Out of Pages in Your Passport? Major Policy Change in 2016
- Powerful Passport Used as Toilet Paper?
Photograph ©2019 by Brian Cohen.
