I got my passport the other day. It only took a week for it to arrive. If anyone needs to get a passport- you need to have 2 photos of yourself(they can be taken for you at a U.P.S store or a Mailboxes Etc store or the like) and a copy of your birth certificate.
NOT a certificate of birth. they are two different things as I found out. it needs to have the state emblem on it. If you don't have a copy you can purchase one on-line for $4 at
www.vitalchek.com
then you just have to fill out the application which you can pick up at most post-offices. (It will ask information such as dates of marriage and divorces and place of birth of your spouse or ex.)
you need then to write two checks. One for $55.00 made out to the Dept of State and the other for $35.00 to the Postmaster.
The passport is good for 10 years.