anything to update before first international travel with us passport?

[metsphan23 2]

good morning

 

my wife and i will be traveling internationally for the first time with her us passport in late june, she is submitting her passport application today. i have a few questions, when we go to the post office, do they actually take the naturalization certificate and keep it? second, do we have to update anything? i know when we used to come back into the US, they would always check her permanent resident card and her foreign passport, along with taking fingerprints, now she will just have to show her us passport correct? no more fingerprints? 

 

thank you 

[kris&me 572]

yes,   

 

As part of your application, you will need to submit your original Certificate of Naturalization (as well as a photocopy of the front and back) to the U.S. State Department. The Certificate will serve as your Proof of U.S. Citizenship and Proof of Identity. As a result, you will be without your proof of citizenship.Jun 26, 2017

 

think like this (we Americans have to submit an original birth ceriticate to prove the same US citizenship)  it will be returned 

be sure you copy it before submitting it

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16 minutes ago, metsphan23 said:

i have a few questions, when we go to the post office, do they actually take the naturalization certificate and keep it?

They take the original and send it in with the application.  You will receive it back, mailed separately from the US passport.

I would advise keeping a photocopy of it for your records if the worst-case scenario happens (it happens rarely, but it DOES happen where people don't get it back).

 

18 minutes ago, metsphan23 said:

second, do we have to update anything?

You mean other than getting the passport?  She can update her status with Social Security, later on after returning from her trip, if she wishes.

 

19 minutes ago, metsphan23 said:

i know when we used to come back into the US, they would always check her permanent resident card and her foreign passport, along with taking fingerprints, now she will just have to show her us passport correct? no more fingerprints? 

She is guaranteed entry as a United States citizen.  Congrats to your wife, btw  

[metsphan23 2]

so the united states post office doesn't make it easy...

 

we had an appointment, then got a call at 9am stating theres no clerk or something. we had to scramble to find a walk in post office, took a taxi, and got there at 11am, and it says online 12pm it stops for the passport walk ins...the guy told us no more, and it was only 11am, 

 

so now my question is there any other place we can get this done? because the post office doesn't seem to want to take our money...

[Seabird 7]

 

https://iafdb.travel.state.gov/

 

Enter your zip code to find nearby acceptance facilities. some are town halls

[metsphan23 2]

Anyone else? We don’t have too many town halls here in ny city :/

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5 hours ago, metsphan23 said:

Anyone else? We don’t have too many town halls here in ny city :/

I got mine done at the Manhattan Main Post Office http://about.usps.com/news/state-releases/ny/2013/ny_2013_1213a.htm

 

No appointment necessary.

Edited April 15, 2018 by Going through

[metsphan23 2]

Ok. Also do they give you a tracking number to track the passport when it’s coming? 

[metsphan23 2]

nevermind, we were finally able , in the pouring rain,  to go get this done.

 

thanks!

[metsphan23 2]

thank you for all the responses.

 

so when we travel, she already has her american passport, is there anything else she needs to do before she travels?

 

[metsphan23 2]

bump.....

[metsphan23 2]

double bump....

[metsphan23 2]

triple bump....

[drcktor 2]

On 5/23/2018 at 8:49 AM, metsphan23 said:

thank you for all the responses.

 

so when we travel, she already has her american passport, is there anything else she needs to do before she travels?

 

I think she's all set if she has her American passport already. Congrats!

[JoeSchmoe2017 92]

If you have Global Entry, you need to update your passport info.  No appointment necessary, just walk in with your new US Passport.