Extra Pages for Passports Now $0, later $82

The Federal Govt has announced that it is raising a number of fees associated with passports and other services administered by the Dept of State. If your passport is running low on pages (stamped by foreign govts when you travel), the cost for additional pages will increase from no charge to $82 on July 13. If you still have some years left on your passport (they are usually valid for 10 years), and if you travel abroad frequently, it might be worth having the passort office put in the extra pages while it's free of charge.

http://www.travel.state.gov/news/news_5078.html

http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/dispatches/post/2010/06/...

Also worthwhile to note is that the cost of a passport is increasing by $35. So if you are going to be needing a passport, now is the time to get it!

Only eligible if: "You have less than 2 to 4 Visa pages remaining in your passport book"

emmagata said: You also better hurray if you want to renounce your US citizenship. It was free, now it will cost you $450!!

So what happens if my friend renounces his US citizenship and doesn't leave the USA?

ok dumb question. so how do you apply for more pages? just show up with your passport to the post office?

emmagata said: You also better hurray if you want to renounce your US citizenship. It was free, now it will cost you $450!!

So now when someone says love it or leave it, you can tell them how much that costs! Perhaps say sure, will do, just give me $450 and I'm gone.

OP thanks for posting, I will be going to the Embassy on Tuesday to get pages, new passport issued with so few pages its like they thought I was a high school kid making a once in a lifetime trip to Europe. My previous passport had 3 times the pages to start with and still added more twice!

I wonder the rationale behind reducing the fees for just disposition/shipment of remain of non-U.S. citizen.

Overseas Citizens Services
Disposition/Shipment of Remains of a non-U.S. Citizen $265.00 + expenses $200.00 + expenses

Wow, really they need to reduce defecit! -

Thanks, OP - your timing is perfect!

hmm I'm leaving the country on Aug 20 and standard processing is 4-6 weeks... Live in ATL so no passport agency nearby. Have only 4 pages left and 4 years til expiration, but don't know if it's worth the risk of not getting it back in time.

nfg05 said: hmm I'm leaving the country on Aug 20 and standard processing is 4-6 weeks... Live in ATL so no passport agency nearby. Have only 4 pages left and 4 years til expiration, but don't know if it's worth the risk of not getting it back in time.

Does that include the shipping time? If so, send it out today, you have a week buffer even on the long end.

complete ur application here:

https://pptform.state.gov/?Submit=COMPLETE+FORM+DS-4085+ONLINE

I just added pages to my passport in the embassy in Hong Kong. It was free and took one day. Don't know if the fees will change, but this may be another idea once you're abroad.

khom said: Why on earth should one pay for renunciation? Ridiculous... just leave.

emmagata said: You also better hurray if you want to renounce your US citizenship. It was free, now it will cost you $450!!

Many millionaires renounce to avoid paying U.S. income taxes. This is the government's way of cashing in on that.

green14 said: I traveled to Canada (Toronto) from CA and they didn't stamp my passport. Any idea why some places do and some don't? Or why they would for some people and not for others? I only have one stamp in my passport book so I really wanted one in Toronto and couldn't even get them to give me one when I asked! lol

They usually don't stamp USA citizens going to Canada, at least at the land border crossings. Probably just a function of the amount of times many people cross back and forth.

That said, I do have one Canada stamp from a time I flew in country, presumably affixed by an immigration officer who was just in the habit of stamping.

BostonOne said: I recently added pages to my passport in person at a passport agency. The language on the website made it seem like it was free in person, but I had to pay an expediting fee of $60. If I had known that, I would have just mailed it in 4 weeks before.

Also, one other thing - you can add one set of extra pages or two. I travel a lot so I added two sets, but don't do it if you don't need it because it makes your passport too thick.

Others have said this already - but it is definitely far quicker and simpler to add pages overseas at a US embassy than at a passport office here if you have the option to do so - it is typically done while you wait (30 minutes in Chennai, India, in my case) or at least the same day - this would cost expedited fees in the US like BostonOne verifies above, or take 4 weeks or more for regular service.

How does the mail-in application work? Will they just send me a booklet of extra pages or do I have to send in my passport?

green14 said: I traveled to Canada (Toronto) from CA and they didn't stamp my passport. Any idea why some places do and some don't? Or why they would for some people and not for others? I only have one stamp in my passport book so I really wanted one in Toronto and couldn't even get them to give me one when I asked! lol

Canada is another country? I thought we annexed it.

Do we send original passport to DOJ to add pages or are these pages a different set of booklet with information of original passport?

I thought there was some sort of rule about government charging insane fees above their cost of providing service. Does it really cost them much to add extra pages?

Signed up to FW to let you know that I submitted my passport a day after the postmark deadline (7/13) and received it today (8/16) with extra pages included at no cost.
Thanks for saving me some money!