Recently, the State Department released the official location for the new Orlando passport office just north of the Orlando International Airport.
The anticipated opening date for the passport office is summer 2027. Among other benefits, Floridians living in Central and North Florida will no longer have to travel eight hours round-trip to Miami for in-person services.
Congressman Maxwell Frost is behind these efforts and explains how “pop up” events at the University of Central Florida was a huge success.
“We started the pop up days for two reasons. No. 1, because there’s a big need for it in the community. But No. 2, is kind of part of our bigger plan of trying to show the State Department why we needed a permanent agency in the first place,” Frost said. “These pop up days, we, would do partnerships with different organizations. UCF was one of them. We did one on campus and literally within hours of posting about it, we would have hundreds and hundreds of people sign up to go get their passports done.
“In fact, we had a waiting list of hundreds of people as well. The passport agency has really come to fruition, in part because so many Central Floridians came out to the pop up days as well. And so it’s going to build on that effort by kind of being a permanent pop up day here in Central Florida, which we’re really excited about.”