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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
PUBLICATION 1358

PASSPORT SERIES 1

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PASSPORTS FOR AMERICAN CITIZENS
IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES

A citizen of the United States who resides abroad and who desires to obtain an American passport should apply in person or in writing to an American consular office for authentic information concerning the requirements for obtaining a passport. Relatives and friends in the United States desiring to assist American citizens residing abroad to obtain passports should determine whether they are in the possession of documentary evidence of their citizenship and should advise them to apply to the American consular office nearest their place of residence abroad. Documentary evidence in such cases should not be submitted to the Department for transmission to a consular officer, but should be transmitted direct to the applicant for submission with his application for a passport.

The Department of State will not undertake to initiate correspondence with consular officers regarding the issue of passports in individual

cases.

The following sections set forth the kind of evidence of American citizenship which is usually required. Consular officers may, in their discretion, require additional evidence.

1. Birth certificates.-A native citizen born where official records of birth were kept at the time of his birth must submit in support of his application for a passport a birth certificate under the seal of the official custodian of birth records. A certificate to be acceptable must show the date and place of birth and that the record thereof was made at the time of birth or shortly thereafter.

2. Baptismal certificates.-A baptismal certificate or a certified copy of the record of baptism is acceptable only when evidence is submitted

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