Passports

Passports for U.S. citizens

The U.S. Embassy in Tirana provide passport services (e.g. first time applicants, to report and/or replace a lost or stolen passport, to renew your passport, to add visa pages to a passport, and to correct or change information in a passport) to U.S. citizens, Monday to Thursday, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., by appointment only. Please visit the links on your left for more information on the requirements and application for passport services at our Embassy. Additionally, the U.S. Department of State's website at http://travel.state.gov/passport/passport_1738_2.html has very useful information regarding passport applications.

In most cases, passport services require 7-10 days for completion.

Two-Parent Consent: Both parents must appear to excecute passport services for a minor child.  A notarized consent statement is required from a parent who is unable to appear.

The U.S. State Department has amended the two-parent passport consent rule to obtain a passport for a minor child (under age 14). The amendment requires that the statement of consent from a non-applying parent be notarized. The statement must give the non-appearing parent's unequivocal and unconditional consent to the issuance of the passport, and must be notarized before foreign notaries in most countries or at a U.S. Embassy or Consulate abroad. The effective date of the new rule is November 1, 2004.

For more information please visit the Department of State's website at http://travel.state.gov/passport/get/minors/minors_834.html.

 

 

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Page last updated on: 08/10/2009, at 10:00 a.m.