Requirements

PLESE READ THIS BEFORE YOU CONTINUE !!

To create the DS-11 form required for this transaction, you will be transferred to the Government Automated application website. After printing the DS-11 form, close the Government website to return to these important instruction.

If the form you printed is NOT the required DS-11, please call our office at 1-866-487-3279,for additional help!!.

1. ONE APPLICATION FORM

   One DS11 Application Form completely filled in but NOT signed. You must sign the application form in front of an authorized government agent, which will be explained in the "Instructions" section below.

   • Click HERE to fill out the DS11Online .
   • DO NOT sign the application until you are instructed to do so!

 

2. PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP

Proof of U.S. Citizenship. You will need to provide one of the following.

1. Original Government Issued Birth Certificate. Hospital and religious certificates are not accepted.OR
2. Previous U.S. Passport issued for full term (5 to 10 years) that has not been damaged in any way.OR
3. Original Naturalization Certificate

Notes:

• Photocopies and notarized photocopies are NOT accepted, all certificates must be originals
• The birth certificate must have the applicant's first name listed on it

Help:

1. Click HERE for ways to apply for your U.S. Birth Certificate
2. If any of the following apply, click on the link below:
   • If you do not have any of these citizenship documents, or
   • If you were adopted, or
   • If you have changed your name, or
   • If you are getting your citizenship through your parents

   Click HERE For Help proving your citizenship.

3. PROOF OF IDENTIFICATION

   You will need to provide:

   1. A clear copy of your U.S. Driver's License. You will have to have the original with you when you sign the application form.
   EXTREMELY IMPORTANT:
   • The issue date on your license must be over 6 months ago. If you have had your license renewed, modified or replaced recently make sure you check the issue date!
   • State Ids and permits are NOT accepted. ONLY US DRIVER LICENCE WILL BE ACCEPTED
   Help:
   • If you do not have a license, or if your license has an issue date of less than 6 months ago click HERE for the instructions of how to prove your identity.
4. PASSPORT PHOTOS

   Two identical Passport Photos taken within the past 6 months.

   Help:

   These should be 2x2 white background photos that meet U.S Goverment
   Passport Photo Regulations.

   Kinkos, AAA, and Mailboxes Etc are examples of stores that take passport photos. If you don't have one of these stores located near you, try looking in your local Yellow Pages under "Photographers - Passport"

   • Find a KINKOS near you.
   • Find a Mailboxes, Etc near you
   • Find a AAA near you
5. PROOF OF TRAVEL

   Proof of Travel. You will need to provide 2 COPIES OF either:

   1. Copy of airline tickets, reservations, e-tickets, cruise tickets, or itinerary showing possible travel plans within the next 2 weeks to an international destination. The travel plans must have the applicants name printed on them.
       
      
   2. A letter from the business or organization arranging the trip requesting an expedited passport from the passport agency. Click HERE for an example of how the letter should be worded.
6. AUTHORIZATION LETTER

   Two Copies of THE SAME authorization form filled in and signed. These letters show your acceptance facility what service you are using to get your passport expedited and allows them to realese the " AA Sealed Envelope" (Details about the Acceptance Agent will be explained in another step). Please CALL OUR OFFICE at 1-866-ITS-EASY (1-866-487-3279) and one of our agents will instruct you to print out the correct Authorization letter.

7. GOVERNMENT FEES

   Prepare two Checks or Money Orders for the Federal Goverment .
   The fee that the U.S. Passport agency charges can be paid by checks or money orders ONLY. personal or company checks are both will be accepted. The checks cannot be starter checks, that is your checks must have a name preprinted on them.

   • One check / money order for $135.00 payable to "U.S. Department of State
   • One check / money order for $25.00, your local acceptance agent will tell you how they would like this check made out.

INSTRUCTIONS

1. SET ASIDE TRAVEL PLANS AND AUTHORIZATION LETTER

   Set aside 1 copy of your travel plans and 1 of the authorization letters. You MUST send these to us when you ship your documents, which will be explained in a future step.

2. GOTO YOUR LOCAL ACCEPTANCE AGENT

   The applicant (and witness if you were instructed to take one) must appear in person at a local Acceptance Agent (AA) with all the requirements listed above . An acceptance agent is a government official who has been authorized to verify signatures for passport applications. AAs are usually a local post office or county clerk in your neighborhood. You can locate your nearest AA by going to the following link: FIND YOUR LOCAL AA

   • Inform the AA that you are using an expediting service to "HAND CARRY " your passport application to the U.S. Passport Agency for processing the following morning.
   • The envelope must be delivered to the Passport agency within 5 business days of the date the application was sealed.
   • After signing the DS11 application and witnessing you sign the application, the AA should enclose all the required documents (each requirement listed in the requirement section above) into a postal sealed envelope, which we call an "AA Sealed Envelope" and give the envelope back to you.
   • If an agent is unfamiliar with expediting services he/she may not want to release the AA Sealed Envelope to you, if you encounter this problem suggest that he/she refer to their Passport Agent's Manual on the topic "Hand-carrying of Executed Applications" it should be around page 31 of their manual.

   NOTES

• The acceptance agent is not the agent who approves passport applications, they are simply authorized to witness your signature and examine your documents. So if the acceptance agent tells you that certain documentation is not necessary and does not seal it up into the envelope, then you should still send us that documentation along with the sealed envelope. If the passport agency states the documentation is needed we will have it, if you don't include it you will be losing time and money getting us the required documents.

2. PREPARE ENVELOPE

   On the outside of the "AA Sealed Envelope" write down the applicant's:

   Last Name, First Name
   Date of Birth
   Departure Date
   Best phone number to contact someone

• If there is more than one application in the envelope write out each applicants name and date of birth. It does not matter where on the envelope this information is written.
• Attached to the outside of the envlope you must include 1 copy of the letter of authorization that the It's Easy staff member directed you to print and sign, and a copy of your travel plans.

2. IT'S EASY ORDER FORM

   Please Fill in and include an It's Easy Order Form along with your Order.
   It's Easy Order Form.

• This form gives us at It's Easy the information about how to contact you, what service you are choosing, how you are paying our service fee and how we are shipping your application back to you.
• It is IMPORTANT that the It's Easy order form is NOT sealed up inside the AA sealed envelope. If it is, fill out another one and send it along with the sealed envelope so we know how to process your application. (The It's Easy fees should not be sealed inside the envelope either).

2. IT'S EASY SERVICE FEE

   IT'S EASY SERVICE FEE

   Include the It's Easy Service Fee, payable by Credit Card, Money Order or Check (no starter checks).

   CLICK HERE FOR OUR PROCESSING FEES!!!

   For more detailed information about processing time click HERE. If you choose to pay the It's Easy Service fee by credit card you will fill in the credit card information at the bottom right of the It's Easy Order form.IMPORTANT: If your instructions required you to go to an acceptance agent make sure the It's Easy fees are NOT sealed inside the postal sealed envelope
3. RETURN SHIPPING

   Include return Shipping. Choose one of the following:

   • Prepaid, filled in airbill from either FedEx, UPS, Airborn or DHL OR
   • $22.00 for FedEx Return OR
   • $35.00 for FedEx Saturday Delivery OR
   • $55.00 for FedEx First Overnight Delivery OR
   • $25.00 Hold @ JFK Airport
   • N\C for Hold @ Great Neck Office
   • N\C for Hold @ 360 Lexington Office
   • N\C for Messenger Pick Up
   • If You Have Account with DHL \ FedEx \ UPS
   • $195.00 for Airline Delivery

   Shipping fees can be paid along with the It's Easy Service fee by either Check, Money Order, or Credit Card. (No starter checks).
4. SHIP YOUR PACKAGE

   Send the following to the address below:

   • "AA sealed Envelope",
   • It's Easy order form,
   • The extra copy of your travel plans you set aside earlier,
   • The extra authorization letter you set aside earlier,
   • The It's Easy service fee and return shipping (If credit card info was not on the It's Easy Order Form
   It's Easy
   360 Lexington Avenue
   Airline Travel Center
   New York, NY 10017
   We STRONGLY recommend you send your documents by FedEx Priority Overnight FedEx has the most reliable drop off times for courier services in the New York area. (They consistently deliver before 10:30am). We also STRONGLY recommend that you DO NOT ship your packages using Express Mail especially for next day / same day services. Express Mail consistently delivers to our office after 12, at which point it may not be possible to complete your order in a day.
5. RELAX

   Congratulations you're finished. Now sit back and relax!

   Do you need a VISA for your trip? Let us help - click HERE to go to our visa processing section.