Registry entry

United States First-Time / In-Person Passport Application (Form DS-11)

Application for a U.S. passport book and/or card using Department of State Form DS-11, the form used when an applicant must apply in person — first-time applicants, applicants under 16, and anyone whose most recent passport was lost, stolen, damaged, issued more than 15 years ago, or issued before age 16. This document describes the applicant inputs and required evidence and ends at the acceptance-facility handoff: DS-11 must be signed in person before an acceptance agent and is not mailed in. It does not submit the form; the live travel.state.gov source is always authoritative (see verification).

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Registry entry

us/dos/passport-application-ds11

Jurisdiction
United States · national
Version
1.0.0
Verification
draft
Authority
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs

GovSchema spec v0.1

Authoritative source DS-11

Machine access

Schema document
registry/us/dos/passport-application-ds11/1.0.0/schema.jsonapplication/schema+json
Verification record
registry/us/dos/passport-application-ds11/1.0.0/VERIFICATION.mdtext/markdown
Registry catalog
registry/index.jsonone record per schema id

Field reference

39 fields across 7 steps, read from the published schema.json — names, types, requiredness, and validation as the document states them. The live government form remains the authoritative source.

Confirm you must apply in person

  • inPersonReason enum required

    DS-11 is used only when you must apply in person. first_passport = you have never been issued a U.S. passport; under_16 = the applicant is a child under 16; prior_lost_stolen_damaged = your most recent passport was lost, stolen, or damaged; prior_over_15_years = your most recent passport was issued more than 15 years ago; prior_issued_under_16 = your most recent passport was issued before you turned 16. If none apply you may be eligible to renew by mail with Form DS-82 instead (see us/dos/passport-renewal-ds82).

    enum: first_passport | under_16 | prior_lost_stolen_damaged | prior_over_15_years | prior_issued_under_16

Your details

  • lastName string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data.

    length: 1–100
  • firstName string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data.

    length: 1–100
  • middleName string optional

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data.

    length: 0–100
  • otherNamesUsed string optional

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Any other names you have used, such as a maiden name or a name from a previous marriage.

    length: 0–200
  • dateOfBirth date required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Full date, YYYY-MM-DD.

  • sexMarker enum required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. F = Female, M = Male, X = Unspecified or another gender identity.

    enum: F | M | X
  • placeOfBirth string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data.

    length: 1–120
  • socialSecurityNumber string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Enter your 9-digit U.S. Social Security number. Federal law requires it for a passport application; if you have never been issued one, the live form provides an alternative attestation.

    pattern
  • email string optional

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. A valid email address.

    length: 0–254
  • phone string optional

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. In international E.164 format, e.g. +12025551234.

    pattern
  • mailingAddressLine1 string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data.

    length: 1–120
  • mailingAddressLine2 string optional

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data.

    length: 0–120
  • mailingAddressCity string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data.

    length: 1–80
  • mailingAddressState string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Two-letter USPS state or territory abbreviation, e.g. CA, NY, TX.

    pattern
  • mailingAddressPostalCode string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. 5-digit or ZIP+4 format, e.g. 90210 or 90210-1234.

    pattern

Physical description and occupation

  • heightFeet integer required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. The feet portion of your height (the U.S. form records height in feet and inches).

    range: 0–8
  • heightInches integer required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. The inches portion of your height, 0-11.

    range: 0–11
  • hairColor string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data.

    length: 1–40
  • eyeColor string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data.

    length: 1–40
  • occupation string optional

    Your occupation. Enter 'student' or 'none' if not employed.

    length: 0–100
  • employerOrSchool string optional

    The name of your employer or school, if any.

    length: 0–120

Parental information

  • parent1FullName string optional

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. The form collects parental information; it is required for child applicants and requested for adults. Provide at least one parent's details where known.

    length: 0–200
  • parent1Citizenship string optional

    Country of citizenship of the first parent, where known.

    length: 0–80
  • parent2FullName string optional

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. The second parent's full name, where known.

    length: 0–200
  • parent2Citizenship string optional

    Country of citizenship of the second parent, where known.

    length: 0–80

Emergency contact and travel plans

  • emergencyContactName string optional

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. A person not travelling with you who can be contacted in an emergency.

    length: 0–200
  • emergencyContactPhone string optional

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. In international E.164 format, e.g. +12025551234.

    pattern
  • emergencyContactRelationship string optional

    How the emergency contact is related to you, e.g. parent, spouse, friend.

    length: 0–60
  • travelDepartureDate date optional

    Your planned departure date, YYYY-MM-DD, if you have upcoming travel. Used to gauge whether expedited service is needed.

  • travelCountries string optional

    Countries you plan to visit on the trip, if known.

    length: 0–200

Citizenship evidence, ID, and photo

  • citizenshipEvidenceType enum required

    us_birth_certificate = certified U.S. birth certificate with the registrar's seal; consular_report_of_birth_abroad = Form FS-240/CRBA; naturalization_certificate = Certificate of Naturalization; citizenship_certificate = Certificate of Citizenship; prior_us_passport = a previous undamaged U.S. passport. Original or certified evidence must be presented in person; it is returned to you.

    enum: us_birth_certificate | consular_report_of_birth_abroad | naturalization_certificate | citizenship_certificate | prior_us_passport
  • citizenshipEvidence file required

    An original or certified copy of your citizenship evidence. At an acceptance facility the original is presented and a photocopy is submitted; provide as PDF, JPEG, or PNG when preparing the application.

  • photoIdType enum required

    drivers_license = valid state-issued driver's license; state_id = state-issued ID card; government_employee_id = valid government employee ID; military_id = U.S. military ID; prior_us_passport = a previous U.S. passport. A photocopy of the front (and back, if applicable) is also required.

    enum: drivers_license | state_id | government_employee_id | military_id | prior_us_passport
  • photoIdCopy file required

    A photocopy of the front (and back, if information appears there) of the identification you will present. Provide as PDF, JPEG, or PNG.

  • photo file required

    One color photograph meeting the published U.S. passport photo requirements (2x2 inches, plain white or off-white background, taken within the last 6 months). Provide as JPEG or PNG; the live source publishes size limits.

Product, speed, and in-person handoff

  • productRequested enum required

    book = Passport book; card = Passport card; book_and_card = Both passport book and card.

    enum: book | card | book_and_card
  • serviceSpeed enum required

    routine = Routine service; expedited = Expedited service (additional fee, faster). Current processing times and fees are published on the live source.

    enum: routine | expedited
  • acceptanceFacilityAcknowledged boolean required

    DS-11 cannot be mailed in. You must take the completed (unsigned) form and all evidence to an acceptance facility — many post offices, libraries, and clerks of court — and sign it in person before an acceptance agent, who administers the oath. Set true to acknowledge this handoff. This document ends here; the agent never submits on the applicant's behalf.

Verification record

This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 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: 2026-06-30

The document was derived from and cross-checked against the official source below, but the full field-by-field comparison the practice requires (manual-source-review-v1 → Procedure step 2) has not yet been completed and recorded against the live Form DS-11 PDF. It therefore remains draft, not verified. Consumers SHOULD treat this as an accurate, source-grounded structural reference, not a load-bearing description of the live process.

Source examined

  • Document (id, version): us/dos/passport-application-ds11 / 1.0.0
  • Spec version: GovSchema 0.1.0
  • Authority: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs (DOS)
  • Primary source URL: https://travel.state.gov/en/passports/how-apply.html
  • Official form id: DS-11 (Application for a U.S. Passport)
  • Retrieved / reviewed: 2026-06-30 (page confirmed live at authoring time)
  • Reviewer: GovSchema Engineering (initial authoring source-review)

What was confirmed against the source

| Source element | Field(s) | |---|---| | DS-11 is the form used when you must apply in person (first time, under 16, or a prior passport that was lost/stolen/damaged, over 15 years old, or issued before age 16) | inPersonReason | | Personal identity block: name, date of birth, sex, place of birth, SSN, contact, mailing address | lastName…mailingAddressPostalCode | | Physical description (height, hair color, eye color) and occupation/employer | heightFeet, heightInches, hairColor, eyeColor, occupation, employerOrSchool | | Parental information and an emergency contact are collected | parent1*, parent2*, emergencyContact* | | Required evidence: evidence of U.S. citizenship (original + photocopy), photo identification (+ photocopy), and one photo | citizenshipEvidenceType, citizenshipEvidence, photoIdType, photoIdCopy, photo | | Applicant chooses book and/or card and routine or expedited service | productRequested, serviceSpeed | | DS-11 must be signed in person before an acceptance agent at an acceptance facility — it is not mailed | acceptanceFacilityAcknowledged |

Scope boundary — acceptance-facility handoff

This document deliberately ends at the in-person handoff. Unlike DS-82 (renewal by mail), DS-11 cannot be completed by submission: the applicant signs under oath before an acceptance agent. acceptanceFacilityAcknowledged records that boundary; nothing here submits on the applicant's behalf (GovSchema scope, catalog boundary).

What is NOT yet independently verified

  • The exact item numbering and labels of the live DS-11 PDF were not captured box-by-box; label/sourceRef annotations are indicative, derived from the public "How to Apply" guidance and the known DS-11 structure, not a verbatim transcription of the current form revision.
  • Conditional requiredness — parental information is mandatory for child (under-16) applicants and requested for adults — is recorded in field descriptions, not encoded structurally; v0.1 has no conditional-required mechanism (tracked in GSP-0004).
  • The application fee and the separate execution fee paid at the acceptance facility, and processing times, are deliberately not encoded as data (they change); the document points consumers to the live source.

Path to a verified claim (next step)

To advance to status: verified, a reviewer applies manual-source-review-v1 (Procedure step 2 field-by-field against the live DS-11 PDF, step 3 flow), confirms the source is authoritative, resolves any discrepancy by shipping a new schema version (immutability — VERSIONING §3, practice Procedure step 5), and records the outcome here plus sets status: verified with a current verification.lastVerifiedAt/nextReviewBy. This v1.0.0 record stays as the authoring provenance.

Re-verification

Per the practice's Cadence, nextReviewBy is set to 2026-12-30 (6 months): the passport surface (fees, required-evidence list, photo rules) changes periodically. Re-check the source on or before that date and on any source.url change.

View the raw record (VERIFICATION.md)

Version history

Independent and non-affiliated

GovSchema is an independent, open-source project. This reference is not produced, reviewed, or endorsed by U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs or any government. The authoritative source is always the live government form and its official instructions.