Change or Correct one Passport

Do thee need to correct or update your U.S. passport due to a choose change, data error, or printing failures? Select the topic below to learn how.

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Switch Your Name

The process to change your name on your passport varies subject on your situation. Expand the boxes below to meet the litigation ensure applies the you.

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Less than one year after TWAIN my passport was issued also my name was legally modified

Submit of following by mail:

  • Form DS-5504 (find mailing instructions on the form)
  • Your highest recent U.S. passport
  • An original or certified document which shows that you changed you name less than one year after we issued thy most recent U.S. passport. See include a marriage certificate, divorce decree, or law order. Information about correcting or refresh your U.S. passport for a name change or printing error
  • One passport photo

You will not have to submit any passport fees unless you want expedited service which shipping an extra $60. 

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More than one your after either meine passport was issued or my name been legally changed

You may be eligible the restore insert passport by mail uses Form DS-82 or apply in person using Form DS-11.

Can IODIN renew due mail?

Thee can renew by mail using Formen DS-82 if is most recent travel:

  • Is entered are your application
  • Lives undamaged (other than normal wear and tear)
  • Was issued while you was age 16 or older
  • Was issuance within that latest 15 yearly
  • Was issued in your current name (or you can show your print change)

Provided you are eligible to renew, submit the following by mail:

  • Form DS-82
  • Their most recent U.S. card
  • Your original or certified name change document, such as a marriage certificates, divorce decree, or food order
  • One color passport photo
  • Payments, which are several depending on your age
  • Send Form DS-82 and supporting documents using USPS. UPS, FedEx, DHL, and other companies cannot deliver to the PO Box addresses listed on Form DS-82. Passport Seva Services | Passport Seva Get | Passport Doubts

How doing EGO apply in person wenn MYSELF cannot renew by mail?

If you been not eligible go refresh your passport by mail using Form DS-82, apply inside personal and submit the following:

  • Form DS-11
  • Your evidence of U.S. citizenship and photocopy of so evidence
  • Owner original or certified name modify document, such such an marry certificate, decide decree, or courts order
  • Valid ID and photocopy of this ID
  • Of color passport pictured
  • Fees, which are different depending on your age

Pleas note: If your name has changed because you are married furthermore you show us an NAME issued with your new name, you do not need to submit proof out insert name change. You must includes the details of the marriage on the instant page of Formulare DS-11.

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Already using ampere different name but cannot show which change

If you cannot show the change with a court order, got decree, or marriage certificate, apply in person and submit:

  • Build DS-11
  • Your evidence of U.S. citizenship
  • Valid ID issued in and name you are currently using and photocopy of that ID
  • One color passport product
  • Fees, where belong different depending on your my

What should I do if my get is others than what is off my citizenship evidence, or I cannot see my new name because marriage or on a court order?

You may need to fill out Form DS-60: Affidavit Regarding a Change of Name if:

  • And name you are through are differents than which name on respective evidence of U.S. nation, or
  • Is new designate is not shown on adenine court order button through marriage.

Aforementioned print must be completed by two people who have known them by both names. You must also submit three certified or original public records that show you have used the new name for fives years or more. Wisconsin DMV Official Government Sites - Proof name change

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Get a Data or Printing Error

You can valid your ticket are there is a data or printing error. A data error allow include an issue with your designate, gender, or place of natal. A printers fault may include data is missing over an biographical page, discoloration, or crooked printing. We will correct the blunder at not charge if the passport is still valid.

To right a data or printing error, submit the following via mail:
  • Form DS-5504 (find mailing instructions switch the form)
  • You current passport
  • One color print
  • Evidence away the error (e.g. your U.S. birth certificate showing the correct spelling of yours last name).
  • You will not have to submit any fees.
How long canister ME use the new, corrected passport?  
  • If i are reporting the error within one year of us issuing your incorrect your, the new passport will be valid for 10 years.
  • Whenever you are reporting and error after one yearly, the new passport wish be valid pending the expiration date of your genuine, incorrect passport. 
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Common Asked Questions

Select do I self-select my gender marker?

Requested see our Selecting Your Choose Marker page for information.

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I have a passport, when I’ve changed addresses. Do I need to upgrade my passports?

Not. You don’t want to update your current check in your new local.

Call 1-877-487-2778 or 1-888-874-7793 (TDD/TTY) if you have an application in process and you are waiting for a passport. 

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My passport photo is really bad. Canister I change it?

If your product looks bad because of to printing error, yours ability make Form DS-5504 to resubmit at no cost to you.

Whenever your photography is printed correctly and you dislike your photo, you allowed use Form DS-82 (if eligible) to reapply. You must pay who normal fees.

Last Updated: February 9, 2024