Personal experience: types of passports in America

There are two types of passports in the USA - passport book 80 $ (paper book) and passport card 20 $ (plastic card).

With the second option, you can only travel to Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean.

In the US, there is no specific authority where documents are accepted and passports are issued. You can go to the post office, in the library, at the court clerk and in a number of other places. We were closest option with the mail. You must first sign up for a visit.

Please bring the following documents with you:
• completed form DS-11;
• birth certificate (the original is temporarily taken away, returned by mail);
• parents id
My husband had an American passport, and I have a green card and a Russian international passport;
• the photo

The photo was taken at the CVS pharmacy. Yes, photos on documents in the US can be done in a regular pharmacy. For children made great indulgence on the requirements of the photo. Valery was very difficult to wake up. Therefore, her photo looks angry and she looks sideways.? I thought that such a photo would not be accepted.

• 80 $ + 25 $ (fee).

Accept checks money oder and debit cards.

The child must be present when serving. The woman who accepted the documents from us carefully compared Valeria with a photo.

At the very end, the employee asked us to swear that this is our child, and in the photo he, and not some other one, that the documents provided are ours, that we both want to get a passport to the child.

The standard readiness time for 4-6 passports is weeks. You can pay 60 $ for acceleration (2-4 week).

We paid nothing, and the passport came in less than 2 week! Very well, considering that there were New Year's holidays. The birth certificate was sent back 2 a day after the passport. A document for such babies is issued on 5 years.

Together with the passport came a booklet entitled “With an American passport, the world is yours!”. Serious statement. You can interpret it in different ways, but here it concerns, of course, travel. Indeed, with an American passport, you can travel almost all over the world without a visa. But an American needs a visa to Russia, so the next passport in line is Russian.

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