The U.S. Passport processing time has gone up to 6-8 weeks for both first time passports and renewals. If you need your passport sooner, you have several options- you can expedite your passport, overnight ship it to the U.S. Department of State, have it overnight shipped back to you from the U.S. Department of State, or you can make an appointment with a Passport Agency (for extreme circumstances). All of these options will cost you additional fees on top of the passport fee itself. To stay up to date and see if the processing time changes, go to the Passport Agency's website and look under "Processing Times".