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07-14-2009, 12:14 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Gilbert, AZ
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Need help filling out passport form..
Okay, I am filling out forms to get our passports, but there are a few questions I am not 100% sure about, and cannot find the answers on their websites.
1. In Care Of or Country, In Applicable
---I just put "United States", right?
2. Travel Plans: Date of Trip, Length of Trip, Countires to be Visited
---We don't exactly have any plans just yet. We are getting our passports for when we go on our honeymoon next summer, but we don't know when and where we are going. Do I HAVE to fill out this info, or can I just leave it blank?
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07-14-2009, 04:23 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: AmCit in Philippines
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From what I recall, your answers sound fine. If you are in the US, use that country (the forms are the same if you are applying for a passport at an Embassy overseas, I think). If you have no immediate trips planned, just state that.
Know that if there is a problem, they'll send the application back to you to correct. That happened to my mom last year. It was no big deal, and the turnaround time was faster than we thought.
Congratulations on your pass to the world!
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07-14-2009, 04:31 PM
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ICT
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: S Kennewick
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When it gets weird is when you are a US national born abroad, as my wife is. One of the questions on the application is 'Have you ever had a US passport before?' The State Department thinks that's a yes-or-no question, but it isn't always. My wife had to answer: "Sort of." Well, obviously that was going to require some amplification, so she explained that she had been carried as an infant on her mother's passport. We sent in her deceased mom's passport, complete with little photo of adorable baby future wife, plus the State Dept. form that documents birth abroad, plus her foreign birth certificate which isn't even in English. I was almost sure that it was going to be a goat rodeo, but credit where credit is due: we answered honestly with full documentation and explanation, and they duly issued her the new passport in her own right.
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07-16-2009, 12:55 PM
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Stuff a Käsekrainer in your pie hole!
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Linz somewhere near the Danube
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The only reason why they ask you your date of trip is to know if processing should be expedited.
If you don't have any plans to take a trip and you're just getting your passport leave it blank.
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