Make your check or money order payable to Passport

Services. Post offices (and passport agencies) accept cash, but

courts are not required to do so.

5. SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER

Although a Social Security number is not required for

issuance of a passport, Section 603E of the Internal Revenue

Code of 1986 requires passport applicants to provide this

information. Passport Services will provide this information to

the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) routinely. Any applicant who

fails to provide the information is subject to a $500 penalty

enforced by the IRS. All questions on this matter should be

referred to the nearest IRS office.

May I Apply for a Passport by Mail?

Yes, if you already have a passport and that passport is

your most recent passport, and it was issued within the past 12

years, and if you were over 18 years old at the time it was

issued.

Ask the court, post office, or your travel agent for a

DSP-82 "Application For Passport By Mail." Fill it out, sign

it, and date it.

Attach to it:

* your most recent passport;

* two identical passport photographs (see previous section

on passport photographs);

* and a $55 fee; make your check or money order payable to

Passport Services. (The $10 execution fee is waived for

those eligible to apply by mail.) If your name has been

changed, enclose the Court Order, Adoption Decree or