ORLANDO, Fla. – We now know where a new U.S. passport office will be located in Orlando and when it will open.
Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Orlando, announced Thursday that the State Department signed a lease to open the new office at 5520 Gatlin Road, just north of the Orlando International Airport.
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When it opens, it will be Florida’s second State Department passport center. The closest passport centers to Orlando are in Miami and Atlanta.
State Department passport centers handle urgent travel needs, such as getting a passport issued that day or getting a foreign visa within a month. These are different from passport counters at local U.S. Post Offices, for instance, or the county clerk of courts.
The offices are by appointment only and require an extra fee to expedite the process.
Frost and his predecessors in Congress worked for years to expand expedited passport services in Florida.
Frost announced that the State Department would finally open an Orlando office last year, after federal officials saw the response to a series of Pop-up Passport Days lawmakers held throughout Central Florida.
The anticipated completion date for the passport office is sometime in summer 2027.
If you need help with your passport or any other federal agency, you should talk to your congressmen. A list of Florida’s U.S. congressmen is available on the U.S. House website. You can also look up your congressman by ZIP code at that site.