New Passport - Adult Passport Rules/Laws
PASSPORT
REQUIREMENTS/LAWS HAVE CHANGED.
PLEASE READ AND FOLLOW
NEW REQUIREMENTS BELOW.
REQUIREMENTS
FOR OBTAINING A NEW PASSPORT FOR AN ADULT
To
obtain a new passport for the first time, or to renew a passport
that was issued more than 10 years ago, an applicant must
submit:
- Two completed DS-11
passport application forms. The Passport Agency requires that you
fill out this form online. After you have filled out the form online,
click “create form”, make sure a bar code appears on the
left side of the form you have filled out, print 2 copies of it and
sign one copy before the clerk who executes the application form and
follow all the instructions below in the section "The
application for a new passport must be executed". If for
any reason you cannot fill out the form online, click
here to print out the form and fill it out by hand. In
this case you must fax a copy of this DS-11 form as soon as possible
after you have had the application executed so that we may generate
a form for you and include this copy of DS-11 in the materials you send
to Capitol Visa (the charge for this service will be $20 additional
and processing will be delayed).
- Two passport-size photos taken within the past six months.
- An ORIGINAL or CERTIFIED
COPY of a U.S. birth certificate (NOT
hospital record), or a previously issued passport, or an ORIGINAL
Certificate of Naturalization.
- A personal check or money order (NOT
company check) made payable to Department of State for exactly
$170.00* (another check for $25.00 will be paid
to the post office clerk or clerk of court who executes the application.)
(Please note -- the above fee of $170.00 is paid directly to the US
State Department and does not include any Capitol Visa fees.)
- A copy of travel ticket or itinerary issued by airline or travel agent.
- A letter of authorization. (Signed
by the applicant)
- One completed Capitol Visa Services Service
Request Form.
This application must be executed. This means that items 1 through 6 above must be taken by
the applicant to a clerk of court (click here for nearest locations) or to a designated postal
employee (click here
for nearest locations) who is authorized to execute new
passport applications at a local post office to be sealed
in an official envelope. This sealed envelope (DO NOT OPEN) plus additional copies of items 1,
5, & 6 and a completed form(item 7) above must then be sent to Capitol Visa Services in a second
envelope along with the sealed envelope. Please note
that if item 1 (a copy of the application with the bar code
on the left side of the form) is not included outside the
sealed envelope, your application can not be submitted
to the Passport Agency
ONE SEALED ENVELOPE PER APPLICANT PLEASE
*
Please note that this fee includes a $60.00 expediting fee which MUST BE paid to the passport office in order to have them process your new passport in less than 45 working days.
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1-800-727-VISA
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