# Verification record — `nz/dia/passport-application-first-adult` v1.0.0 This file is the **source-review record** for this document version, per the [`manual-source-review-v1`](../../../../../practices/manual-source-review-v1.md) practice. It documents the provenance of the published fields and flow and states the current verification claim honestly. ## Current claim - **`status`:** `draft` - **`verification.method`:** `manual-source-review-v1` - **`verification.lastVerifiedAt`:** `2026-07-04` The document was derived from a **directly-read primary source**: the full text of the official Form PAS310 (edition dated 31 January 2025), read page by page, corroborated by the live `govt.nz` and `dia.services.govt.nz` guidance pages. This gives it stronger direct-source grounding than the sibling `nz/dia/passport-renewal-adult` v1.0.0, whose applicant-field section relied on secondary corroboration because its own form PDF could not be retrieved. It remains `draft`, not `verified`, pending an independent second reviewer's field-by-field pass against a live session. ## Why this gap existed A per-jurisdiction × per-vertical catalog review (GOV-1051 research cycle, 2026-07-04) found that `registry/nz/dia` published only `passport-renewal-adult` and `realme-verified-identity` — no first-time application, unlike every other jurisdiction with a published passport document (US, GB, IE, AU, CA all have both a first-time application and a renewal). This document closes that gap. It was added directly at `published` in `discovery/catalog.json`, since no `candidate` entry for it existed beforehand. ## Source examined - **Document `(id, version)`:** `nz/dia/passport-application-first-adult` / `1.0.0` - **Spec version:** GovSchema `0.3.0` - **Authority:** Department of Internal Affairs, New Zealand Passports (DIA) - **Primary source URL:** - **Official form id:** `PAS310` (Application for a New Zealand Passport — Adult; 31 January 2025 edition) - **Retrieved / reviewed:** 2026-07-04 - **Reviewer:** GovSchema Engineering (initial authoring source-review) ## Access constraint and how it was worked around `passports.govt.nz` again returned `HTTP 403` to every direct/automated fetch attempted (both the live PDF URLs and the guidance pages), the same recurring gotcha recorded for `nz/dia/passport-renewal-adult` and `nz/dia/realme-verified-identity` (see `[[gov-form-pdf-extraction]]` in engineering memory). Unlike those two documents, this cycle located an **exact Wayback Machine capture of the live PDF itself**: the CDX API (`web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=passports.govt.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/19602/adult-new-v2.pdf`) returned a 21 February 2025 snapshot of the same file served by the live site, confirmed by URL match. That snapshot (`https://web.archive.org/web/20250221015729/https://www.passports.govt.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/19602/adult-new-v2.pdf`) was fetched directly (no block on `web.archive.org` via `curl`) and its full text extracted page-by-page with `pdfjs-dist` (the same tool used across this registry for CID/glyph-encoded and access-blocked PDFs). Every field, section number, and label cited in this schema's `sourceRef` values was read verbatim from that extraction, not inferred from prose summaries. Two supporting pages were fetched directly (no block): - `govt.nz` — "Apply for your first adult passport": eligibility (16+, NZ citizen), online vs. paper channel description, fee (NZD 247). - `dia.services.govt.nz` — "Getting started": corroborates the online channel's field set (name, DOB, place of birth, gender, height, eye colour, contact details) and flags a first-time-applicant-specific extra: an online **live camera identity check**, distinct from the passport photo. ## What was confirmed directly (verbatim, from PAS310's own text) - **Section 1** (personal details): surname, first/middle names, place and date of birth, gender (Male/Female/Gender X), height (cm), eye colour. - **Section 2** (entitlement): the four tick-box bases — born in NZ; born in Niue/Cook Islands/Tokelau (birth-certificate document required only for a first-time applicant); citizenship by grant or descent (certificate number, no document required); entitlement for another reason (supporting evidence required) — and the exact document requirements per basis, from the page-8 checklist table. - **Section 3** (names at birth): mother's name at the applicant's birth, mother's own maiden name, father's name at the applicant's birth. - **Section 4** (contact and delivery): home address fields, phone/email, and the delivery-address-if-different branch, including the PO-Box-vs-street distinction for international courier delivery. - **Section 10** (emergency contact) and **Section 11** (applicant declaration): read verbatim, including the exact declaration text. - **Section 12** (witness/identity referee): passport number, years known (1+ required), name, date of birth, address, phone — and the eligibility declaration (16+, known 1+ year, not related/spouse/same-address, valid NZ passport), which **independently corroborates, word for word**, the BDM76 Identity Referee Declaration already read for the renewal sibling. - **Section 13** (fees/payment): the three service levels (standard, urgent — up to 3 working days, callout — by appointment) and the two paper-channel payment methods (card, EFTPOS in person). Fee amounts are intentionally not encoded as schema data (they change); see the `processingSpeed` / `paymentMethod` field descriptions. ## What is out of scope for v1.0.0 - **Name-change pathways** (PAS310 sections 6 and 7 — marriage/civil union, statutory declaration/deed poll): gated out entirely via the `nameChangedSinceBirth` eligibility field. An applicant who has changed their name before their first passport must use the paper form's full sections 6/7 directly; the associated original-certificate documents are not modelled here. - **Statutory declaration edge case** (PAS310 section 8): triggered only when someone else completes the form for an applicant with a disability/language difficulty, or when the applicant wears a head covering/headband for religious or medical reasons in their photo. Left unmodelled to keep this document scoped to the common case of a competent adult applicant completing their own application; flagged here rather than in the schema so a future revision can add it deliberately. - **The online channel's live camera identity check**: `dia.services.govt.nz` states first-time online applicants need "a device with internet access and a camera" for an online identity check distinct from the passport photo. This document does not model that check as a field (its data shape was not independently observed, only described in prose); it is noted here as a known online-channel-only step. - **Address decomposition for third parties**: the identity referee's and emergency contact's addresses are each collapsed into a single free-text field, unlike the applicant's own home/delivery addresses which mirror the source form's unit/street/suburb/city/postcode/country breakdown. This is a deliberate scope compression — an agent validating a third party's postal address does not need the same structural precision it needs for its own user's delivery address. - **Exact digital-photo pixel/byte specification**: PAS310 (a paper form) only specifies print dimensions (35mm x 45mm) and paper-quality rules; the online channel's digital equivalent (as flagged for the renewal sibling) is not independently confirmed here either. ## Path to a `verified` claim (next step) To advance this document to `status: verified`, a reviewer needs to independently re-derive the same Wayback capture (or a fresh, unblocked fetch of `passports.govt.nz`) and re-check every `sourceRef` against it field by field, confirm the current fee schedule and photo digital-file specification against the live site, and decide whether the statutory-declaration edge case and the online live-identity-check step should be folded into a future revision. Record the outcome here before setting `status: verified`. ## Re-verification Per the practice's **Cadence**, `nextReviewBy` is set to **2027-01-01** (6 months): passport applications are fee/policy-sensitive, and this record's reliance on a year-old Wayback snapshot (rather than a live fetch) for the form's own text argues for the shorter end of the cadence. Re-check the source, and confirm no newer PAS310 edition has been published, on or before that date and on any `source.url` change.