Renew a U.S. Passport with TDS Washington DC

• You are able to submit your most recent US passport
• Your expired US passport was issued within the past 15 years
• Your passport was issued when you were 16 years of age or older
  Your passport is running out of blank visa pages
  Your passport was issued over one year ago and you legally changed your name
• Your expired passport is not heavily damaged or mutilated

Please send 1 recent professional passport type photograph.

Passport Photo Guide - Click Here  New Requirements Nov 1st 2016 !

Non-passport photograph type are not acceptable.

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Proof of Departure from the USA can be any of the following:

A copy of your airline ticket or flight itinerary from your travel agent, airline, or online booking company. It is not required for the Proof of Departure to be purchased only that it will confirm your travel intentions. A print out of the confirmation email that you are emailed after booking a flight is ideal.

A signed letter detailing your business travel.
A signed letter detailing that your job requires you to travel frequently and with short notice.
Please follow this letter format.

A signed letter explaining that you will be driving to Canada and or Mexico.
Please follow this letter format.

Click here to print the Authorization Letter

Letter MUST have an original signature; faxes, scans, photocopies, etc are NOT accepted by the United States Passport Agency.

Note: You MUST hand write Travel Document Systems in the space labeled Courier Company Name on the Authorization Letter above.

If your passport was issued more than one year ago and you require an amendment such as a name change, you must submit the correct documentation required for a name change by marriage or court order.
All documents submitted for a name change or a data correction must bear the official seal of the issuing authority.

Photocopies and notarized documents are not accepted by the U.S. Passport Agency

Click Here for DS-82 Passport Application Form

The U.S. Passport Agency has introduced an online application form, this online style application must be used in all expediting cases no handwritten forms will be accepted by the U.S. Passport Agency. Failure to use this online application will cause delays in processing times.

TIP: This online application has replaced "Hand Written" applications, YOU ARE NOT APPLYING ONLINE you are only completing the questions by typing them onto the application the U.S. State Department web site 'Wizard' will walk you through the application.

The last page of the application is a Print summary page, please scroll to the bottom left corner of this page and CLICK CREATE FORM you will then be able to print (single sided only) and sign (in blue or black ink only) your application.

Note: The application Wizard will ask you to select fees, shipping and processing options. Select any options to complete the form, no payments will be made and options selected will have no effect on the actual service provided by Travel Document Systems. The Wizard is simply designed to assist the general public in calculating fees for traditional mail in applications.

A correctly formatted application should have a BAR CODE on the top left corner, bottom of each page and DS-82 printed on the bottom left of the application form.

To view a correctly formatted DS-82 application please click on the sample link SAMPLE

If you are applying for a regular passport book only, please mark the box on your U.S. passport renewal 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 $30.00 U.S government fee for the Passport Card. The U.S. Passport Cards cannot be expedited at this time and take approximately 2-3 weeks to be issued, the Passport Card will be processed separately from your regular passport book (in about 2-3 weeks) then mailed to you directly by First Class mail from the U.S. Passport Agency.

The U.S. Passport Card increases speed and efficiency to meet the new travel requirements for land and sea border crossings of nearby countries.

An extra form of official government ID which will conveniently fit in your wallet.
     Use your Passport Card to travel by land or sea to Canada, Mexico, Bahamas
  and the Caribbean without your bulky Passport Book.
   The passport card is valid for 10 years.