Passports
Imminent Departure
If you need a new passport for travel within the next two weeks, your application will require a personal appearance. Please bring the following to the Embassy:
- Your old passport. (See Lost passport if your passport was lost or stolen.)
- Proof of international travel within the next two weeks.
- Two (2) identical, recent color photographs taken full face, with a white background, measuring 5 cm by 5 cm (2 in x 2 in). Please ask the photographer for photos for a U.S. passport, otherwise you may be given the wrong format. Pictures made in French photo booths are not acceptable. There are photographers located close to the Embassy. (list of photographers)
- Your social security number.
- Either a DS-82 passport application (if you have a full validity, 10 year passport issued within the past 15 years that is not mutilated in any way), or a DS-11 passport application (all others). If your, or your children’s previous passport(s) were issued for a 5-year validity period, use the DS-11. Please type or print legibly in black ink when completing all sections of this application. Please print out and submit only one-sided pages of the application.
Note that the online version of the application form includes instructions on the backside written for use in the U.S., which do not apply to your application in France. - A credit card or cash (dollars or euros) to pay the passport fee, see Fees and Payments.
For minors under age 16, See Minors under 16.
If eligible, you will be issued a limited validity passport for your imminent travel. You will be required to replace this passport by mail when you complete your travel. You may not be issued another emergency passport until this passport is replaced. We therefore encourage you to replace your emergency passport immediately upon your return.
For security reasons, do not bring luggage--including large backpacks--laptop computers, or large cameras. Security guards will hold small tourist cameras and cell phones until your departure, but there is no storage available for luggage, large backpacks, laptop computers, or large cameras—please do not bring them to the Embassy.