When we thought we were going to Canada this summer, we applied for Naomi's passport just about as soon as it was possible for us to do it. I had a difficult time finding a place to do passport photos for an infant, though it turned out that the post office that we go to to do passports would do them for us. (I ended up getting them done at Sears because I didn't know about the post office.)
It wasn't particularly complicated...the application was available on line, I printed it out, filled it out, and all three of us went to the post office-both parents have to be present to get the passport.
I think going to get her birth certificate (which I did in person, in order to expedite things) was probably more annoying than the passport process, mostly cause Naomi was fussing the day we did that, whereas she slept through most of the post office experience.
We got her passport about three weeks after we applied. You might want to plan to pay the expediting fee...while most of them are taking less than six or eight weeks right now, I'd hate to see you scrambling just days before the trip to make sure that you had a passport for Niblet.
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Date: 2008-08-30 01:23 am (UTC)It wasn't particularly complicated...the application was available on line, I printed it out, filled it out, and all three of us went to the post office-both parents have to be present to get the passport.
I think going to get her birth certificate (which I did in person, in order to expedite things) was probably more annoying than the passport process, mostly cause Naomi was fussing the day we did that, whereas she slept through most of the post office experience.
We got her passport about three weeks after we applied. You might want to plan to pay the expediting fee...while most of them are taking less than six or eight weeks right now, I'd hate to see you scrambling just days before the trip to make sure that you had a passport for Niblet.