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US Passports
Before you visit our clinic in Nogales, Mexico please bring your
passport or a passport card
so you will have the appropriate identification when reentering the
United States.
Passports and Passport Cards:
Please visit the U.S. State Department Web Site:
http://travel.state.gov/passport/passport_1738.html
Once
at the state department website, click on the appropriate tab for:
1) First time users,
2) Those who want to renew their passports,
3) Those who want to obtain a passport card (only for entering
Canada, and Mexico by boat or car), and
4) Locating the in-person passport office in Tucson, AZ.
If you want to apply by mail, please go to the U.S. Post
Office and ask for Form DS-11, which is for in-person
registration.
Passports Fees:
A passport for first time requesters who apply in person will
be $135 ($110 application fee + $25 execution fee)
Those who want a passport card will pay only $55 ($30
application fee + $25 execution fee),
but ONLY when using Form DS-11.
Passports by mail cost
$110, while the passport card will only be $30, but you must use
Form DS-82 (by mail).
Please look at the following information about
the U.S. Passport Card found at the U.S. State Department Website.
The card is compact, about the size of most credit cards, and
contains all the information pertaining to your citizenship and can
be scanned by one of the U.S. Border Patrol Agents as you cross the
border from Nogales, Mexico into Nogales, Arizona.
U.S. Passport Card
HOW TO APPLY
All U.S.
citizens may apply for a passport card.
If you have a U.S.
passport book and are eligible to use
Form DS-82,
you may apply for the card by mail. You can use
Form DS-82
to renew your passport book at the same time that your apply for
your passport card.
If you have never had a
U.S. passport book or are not eligible to use Form DS-82, you must
apply in person using
Form DS-11.
All passport
cards will be returned using First Class Mail. Passport cards
cannot be shipped to you using
overnight delivery.
SECURITY
To increase speed,
efficiency, and security at U.S. land and sea border crossings, the
passport card contains a vicinity-read radio frequency
identification (RFID) chip. There is no personal information
written to the RFID chip. This chip points to a stored record in
secure government databases.
With RFID technology,
Customs and Border Protection inspectors will be able to access
photographs and other biographical information stored in secure
government databases as the traveler approaches an inspection
station.
The passport card uses
state-of-the-art security features to prevent against the
possibility of counterfeiting and forgery. A protective RFID-blocking
sleeve is provided with each passport card to protect against
unauthorized reading or tracking of the card when it is not in use.
HISTORY
We
began production of the U.S. Passport Card on July 14, 2008.
As of March 2010, more than 2,700,000
Passport Cards have been issued to U.S. citizens.
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