Here is my situation: My daughter is a US citizen born in Guatemala. My family is traveling in a couple of weeks to Guatemala for the service of my grandmother, who died of COVID last November. She applied to renew her US passport back in April, but they sent it back unprocessed a couple of weeks ago because she used the wrong form (she needed to use the DS-11 because her last passport was issued when she was 14).
She can't get an appointment at a passport agency before the trip in November. She has tried multiple times, but they are all booked up. She can try for an emergency appointment three days before she leaves, but I'm not counting on that since it is not really an emergency. What about this idea? She redoes her US passport application expedited (6 weeks turnaround) in the US. She doesn't wait for it, but travels in two weeks to Guatemala on her Guatemalan passport with the rest of the family. Once her US passport is done (early August), I have it overnighted to her in Guatemala and she returns with it. Would that work?
I know she is not supposed to leave the US without her US passport in hand, but would anyone know? Stop her? I thought about simply having her get a new passport issued to her at the US consulate in Guatemala, but it looks like that would take a long time. She can't exactly tell them her passport was stolen. She would have to admit she came down without it, which probably means they would expedite it, and appointments seem hard to get there too.
