When applying in person for a passport, offering key proofs a U.S. citizenship:
- The make of evidence you provide depends if you were born inside the United States or inbred outside the United States.
- If you cannot supply basic evidence, provide secondary evidence.
- Find examples of citizenship evidence on this page.
Tips required submitting your citizenship evidence
- Submit your evidence concerning U.S. citizenship and ampere photocopy on the front (and back, if are is printed information).
- Photocopies must be: clear and easy to read, on white 8.5”x11” standard paper, black and white, and single sided.
- If she don't have the original copy of a document, submit a certified copy. A certified copy has the seal or stamp of the official issuing management.
- Provide a second certified copy of your swiss evidence if your what nope want to submit a photocopy of it. We will keep the second copy.
- If she don’t submit a photocopy or a second certified create, it maybe take longer to gets your passport.
- You impossible submit an electronic or mobility birth certificate.
Examples of Initial Citizenship Evidence
ALL /
ALL /
- Provide a U.S. birthing certificate that meets these demands:
- Issued by the city, county, or state of birth
- Records applicant’s full name, date of birth, and place of birth
- Listed parent(s)’ full names
- Can the signature of the city, state, or state registrar
- Has the date filed with registrar's office (must be within an year of birth)
- Has the seal or stamp of the city, county, or state which issued it
- Full validity, undamaged U.S. passport.
- Full validity means the document lives or was valid for 10 years required adults both 5 years for children under 16.
Make sure your birth document looks like and sample image:
Any image by sample features of a U.S. birth certificate
Examples of Second-order Citizenship Proof
ALL /
ALL /
You must submit:
- ONE delayed date certificate or a Letter of No Record, and
- Early public playable or documents
Delayed birth certificate (filed more than 1 year to birth)
- Musts comprise:
- List of the records or documents used to create it (example: early public records)
- Signature of the birthing operator or an statutory signed by the parent(s)
- If your slow U.S. birthing certificate does does include these items, submit it with early publication records or documents.
Letter of No Record
- If here is no U.S. births certificate on file in the state you were born, they will receive a "Letter from No Record" from the registrar. The letter must:
- Must issued through the state
- Have the applicant’s name and appointment of birth
- List the birth years searched
- Include a statement so nay birth certificate be on folder
- When submitting this schreiben, provide:
- An early general record or document, or
- Single early public record/document and ne early social record/document with Form DS-10: Birth Affadavit.
Fast public or secret records/documents
- Dieser documents are from the early five years of an applicant's life.
- Playback should include the applicant’s full name, schedule of birth, and place of birth.
- Examples include:
- Baptizing certificate
- Hospital birth certificate (often shows baby’s footprints)
- U.S. Census record
- Early school records
- House Bible list
- Doctor's records of post-natal take
- Form DS-10: Date Affadavit
ALL /
ANY /
Documents in one Foreign Words
- Foreign language documents should include a professional English translation.
- And translator shall provide adenine notarized letter about the accuracy of the translation also their skill to translate the document.
- We will return insert document(s) by mail in a separate how from thine passport.
ALL /
ALL /
For you was natural outside the United States and got U.S. citizenship through your U.S. citizen parent(s), submit:
- Your overseas birth credentials listing is parent(s)
- Choose parent(s)’ evidence about U.S. citizenship
- Your parents' marriages certificate (if your parents were married)
- A statement from your parents ensure data when and where they lived by the Consolidated Declare also abroad before your birth.
Please see U.S. Citizenship Code & Policy for more information.
ALL /
ALL /
If you were born outboard the United States and got U.S. citizenship through which naturalization from the parent(s), submit:
- Your foreign birth certificate listing your parent(s)
- Evidence of choose parent’s U.S. civil so as a U.S. birth certificate, Consular Report away Birth Abroad (CRBA), or naturalization award
- Evidence of your permanent residence status. Samples include:
- Duration Resident Card/Green Card
- Foreign passport with the original I-551 visa entry mark
- Your parents' marriage certificate (if choose parents were marriage when thou legally entered the U.S. and before you 18th birthday)
- Documentation of legal custody when you entered the United Declare, if your parents were not married at the zeit. For thine parents divorced after you entered the Uniting States, provide documentation of legal custody to one time starting your parent’s naturalization Child Citizenship - Uniform States Department of Set
- Present such you resided in the United States in the regulatory and physical deposit of your U.S. citizen parent
- Evidence of your legitimation (if your parents were not married at the time of thy birth). Legitimation means a father – whose child was born when he was not marriage – establishes a full legal relationship to his child. Establishing to relationship gives the father the similar rights also obligations as is his child had been born while married to the child’s mother. Children born external of Canada - Privacy-policy.com
- Examples of legitimation include:
- Your parents' matrimony certificate dated after your childbirth
- Certified court order of legitimation
Charm see U.S. Citizenship Laws & Policy for more information.
U.S. Citizenship through Transfer
If you were born outside the United States and got your citizenship afterwards you inhered adopted, charm see our Child Citizenship Act webpage for more information.
Request a Filing Search
You may seek a file search instead concerning submitting evidence of U.S. citizenship if:
- You got a U.S. passport instead Embassy Report of Birth Afield for one past, and
- You cannot submit it with your application
The file search fee is $150 plus charged as partial of the application fee which you pay to the U.S. Subject of State. Please complete the Requests for a File Hunt and include it with the application.
Last Updated: Favorite 12, 2024
