In the US right now with my US passport and ARC expiring at the end of the year

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Passport renewal speed will probably pick up again as American government employees get back to work. The process will kick in with a backlog.

Here is a reference from a few years ago.

An experience getting a new passport at AIT in 2016

Note actual experiences may vary as AIT moves to a new location. A Sep 2016 experience getting a new passport at AIT, the American Institute in Taiwan. The cost was US$110/NT$3630. New passport can be mailed or can be picked up at AIT. I chose to return to AIT to pick up my new passport while retaining my current valid passport until new passport was available for pickup at AIT at which point I submitted current passport for revoke and received new one. Kept the old one. There’s a photo bo…