Question about passport application

[Tiggerish]

I started to fill out applications for passports for my family and immediately ran into a problem. My mom's name on her birth certificate is spelled differently than on her drivers license and everything else. Which spelling do I use?

 

[clten]

Use the name on the birth certificate. That's her legal name.

 

[wdwstar]

i would go with the name on the birth cert. , you will be sending the birth cert. with all your docs. thru the post office to the gov. and that is were theyw ill compare all the info, i wont even know about your mothers different spelling on her lics.


i do have a ? , can you use white out on the docs for your passports?

 

[nzdisneymom]

I'm sure this has been posted elsewhere, but you can fill out the passport form online so if you mis-spell something or mark the wrong box, it's easy to correct. Here's the link:

http://travel.state.gov/passport/forms/ds11/ds11_842.html

and you fill it out and then print it off to submit with your supporting documentation.

We used the online form for our family - made it easier when doing the children's because all the information was pretty much the same so we were able to use the "back" button and saved quite a bit of typing.

We're getting our passport photos done at AAA on Friday and submitting the forms the following Friday (kids will be at Grandma's next week so we have to wait til they get back since they have to go with us to submit the forms).

HTH.

 

[Cruella de mom]

I had the same problem - use the birth certificate spelling or if she has a passport, use that spelling.

Be absolutely sure that the place you get your passport photos does not trim them for you- let the passport office do that. I paid $9 for passport photos only to have to pay $15 at the passport port office because the first place had trimmed the photos too small. The workers there said to always bring the photos in untrimmed. SO I took the kids in untrimmed and had no problems.

 

[suejmj]

To answer the question about white-out. I used my "trusty liquid paper dryline" when I completed my form. It did not cause any problems as I have already received my passports. It took approximately 6 weeks.

 

[Vanvmom]

My name is different than it was on my birth certificate (I got married... about 16 years ago). No passport processing problems at all. The government already had record of my name change on my SS# and I did not have to provide any docs. to show the name change. What I put on my passport was the same name that is on my DL (which by the way has my old address on it- once again... no problems).

 

[Tiggerish]

Thanks for the help. My Mom is 70+ and we just recently found out the first name on her birth certificate is different than the name she was always used. She thinks her dad had such a thick dutch accent that who ever took the name down from him misunderstood. But I will use the birth certificate name for the application.

 

[Nik's Mom]

Someone mentioned AAA does passport photos. Do you know how much they charge?