Tracking your passport application. You can track your passport application immediately if you apply online or after 3 weeks if you apply by post. Getting your new passport. Your new passport will be sent to you by courier or Royal Mail.
Located in the center of the Santa Clara Valley, on the southern shore of San Francisco Bay, San Jose covers an area of 179.97 square miles (466.109/kmÂ²). San Jose is the county seat of Santa Clara County, the most affluent county in California. San Jose is the largest city in both the San Francisco Bay Area and the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland Combined Statistical Area, which contain 7.7 million and 8.7 million people respectively.
It includes Marin County, Alameda County, The City and County of San Francisco, Contra Costa County, Napa County, Sonoma County, Santa Clara County and San Mateo County. For the most part, Silicon Valley is the Southern-most three of these; Santa Clara, San Mateo and perhaps Alameda Counties.