• Applicants requesting expedited passport service through TDS, MUST now use an online version of the form DS-11, rather than handwriting the required personal data.
  
  
• DO NOT SIGN the DS-11 form until asked to do so by the Post Office or Court House passport clerk.
  
  
• PASSPORT CARDS: The new Passport Cards cannot be expedited at this time and take approximately 4-5 weeks to issue. If you are applying for a regular passport only, please mark the box on your passport application next to "Passport Book". If you also want to apply for a Passport Card you should also mark the box next "Passport Card". There is an additional $20.00 government fee for the Passport Card and the Passport Card will be processed separately from your regular passport (in about 4-5 weeks) then mailed to you directly by First Class mail.
  
  
• If replacing a lost passport form DSP-64 must also be completed.
  
  
• You MUST print and submit TWO copies of your completed application DS-11. One copy for the sealed envelope and the other copy for inclusion in the FEDEX Envelope, paper-clipped to the outside of your sealed envelope (see #9 below).
  

2. Two recent professional passport-type photographs

3. Letter of Authorization. Click here to print the Authorization Letter.

• You MUST print, then complete and include TWO COPIES of a Letter "Attn: U.S Passport Agency" stating: "I, (applicant name), hereby authorize Travel Document Systems to pick up my passport, and to discuss the status of my application with the Passport Services staff."
  
  
• One copy of this letter, with original signature in BLUE INK, should be placed inside your sealed envelope by the passport clerk and the other should be paper-clipped to the outside of that envelope
  
  

• Take the above requirements to your local acceptance agent for Passport Applications (usually a post office or county clerk or court house).
• Pay the clerk the U.S. government fee, including rush fees, and execution fees. Be prepared to write two checks for the total amount, as the clerk will retain $25.00 execution fee.
  • $135.00 + $25.00 = $160.00 for adults,
  • $120.00 + $25.00 = $145.00 for children under 16 years.
• Please ask the clerk NOT to include the cost of USPS return postage in your payment of passport fees.
• Please write your name and date of birth on the check.
• Credit cards are not accepted for this part of the transaction.
• Ask the clerk to execute the passport application documents and place them in a sealed envelope addressed to "U.S. Passport Agency".
• You must not open this sealed envelope again before shipping it.
• The sealed envelope is considered "expired" by the Passport Agency after 5 business days. Please please send your application to TDS the same day it is signed.