The good news is

[mnhtnbb]

that if you have a passport that needs to be renewed, it can be done online. Turnaround time for mine was only two weeks. I submitted my renewal application and uploaded my digital photo ( taken at the same Walgreens where I got my latest COVID booster shot in September) on December 15th and my new passport with an expiration date of December 29, 2035 arrived in my mailbox on January 3rd.

If your passport is due to expire within the next year, renew it now. If your passport has expired, apply for a new one, now. If you've never had a passport, there's no time like the present to get one if you have any thought that you might want to leave the country--for any reason --in the next few years.

[underpants]

1. We finally got ours at the start of 2025.

Took me a while to get my family going in that.