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Faster passport service getting slower


Katherine Estes, formerly assigned to Islamabad, Pakistan, right, looks at a passport application with Christina Bernal formerly from Juarez, Mexico, as they work to reduce the passport backlog in New Orleans, Tuesday, July 17, 2007. At the nation's third largest passport processor in New Orleans, the staff has been beefed up with dozens of contract workers, some hired just to open the 10,000 to 30,000 applications arriving daily in the mail. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)For people seeking U.S. passports, faster service is getting slower. The summer's maddening backlog in passport applications has forced officials to abandon the old standard of a week's wait for people willing to pay $60 extra for speedy service.





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