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Name Changes
 

Please use DS-5504 in order to make name changes or correcting information on your passport. 

Please follow the following instructions if the name change occurred within one year of the current passport being issued.
When there is a change in your identifying information, such as name-change due to marriage or by court order
To extend the validity of certain previously limited passports or 
To correct a Passport services printing error 
Please follow the following instructions if the name change occurred more than one year of the current passport being issued.
Submit form DS-82 (or DS-11 if appropriate)
Pay the applicable fee
If the passport was printed in error, no fee will be charged for change
For more information, please see form DS-82

Please follow the following instructions if the name change occurred within one year of the current passport being issued.

  • When there is a change in your identifying information, such as name-change due to marriage or by court order
  • To extend the validity of certain previously limited passports or 
  • To correct a Passport services printing error 

Please follow the following instructions if the name change occurred more than one year of the current passport being issued.

  • Submit form DS-82 (or DS-11 if appropriate)
  • Pay the applicable fee
  • If the passport was printed in error, no fee will be charged for change
  • For more information, please see form DS-82

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