Applied For My New Passport Just As The Passport Rules Changed For The Better

[Shana A]

Applied For My New Passport Just As The Passport Rules Changed For The Better
by: Autumn Sandeen
Sun Jan 30, 2011 at 13:39:20 PM EST

http://pamshouseblend.com/diary/18547/applied-for-my-new-passport-just-as-the-passport-rules-changed-for-the-better

Last Friday (January 28, 2011), I went to the Post Office branch on Midway Avenue here in San Diego and applied for a passport and a passport card.

I'd assembled the required documentation, which included a certified copy of my birth certificate, my legal change of name document, a letter from my psychiatrist -- which was written in accordance with the Department of State instructions -- indicating I have received treatment for change of legal sex, passport photos, and my filled out Application For A U.S. Passport form. And, of course, I brought my checkbook.

I'd gone to that Post Office two weeks earlier to get my passport -- with all the same documentation -- but it turns out one must make an appointment at the Post Office to apply for a new passport. Given government bureaucracy, I can't believe I didn't anticipate that applying for a passport may require a passport. Oh well, live and learn.