Passports

The wife and I submitted our applications at the local courthouse this
week. After reading the skinny for passport photos on the government
web site, we got out the digital camera and took some pretty good
quality photos satisfying all the posted requirements and printed them
on my not so shabby Canon photo printer using glossy Canon photo paper.
The nice lady at the counter fingered them like they were dead bugs and
said "Hmmmm..... You take these yourself?" She said that apps are
sometimes returned due to being on the wrong paper (?!?!?). She said
she would submit them but with the look she gave me I'm not hopeful.
As we are not in a hurry its not a big deal if they send them back.

Anyone ever have an issue with photos not up to snuff? Especially the
paper. Like I said, all posted requirements were met.

traveldiva wrote:
> Because of the new regulations I finally have to get a passport. Does
> anyone who has had a lot of experience w/ passports know if you don't
> have 1 of your parents information (father) if it's going to be a
> problem getting the passport? I have everything else certified birth
> certificate etc but I don't know any information on my father and am
> pretty sure cannot get it. Any advice would be great!


Write down whatever it says on your birth certificate. In most states
moms were required to name a guilty party, even if she was unsure. If
it says "unknown" then write down "unknown". If all you are saying is
that you don't know the answer to the question "where was you father
born", just write down "unknown" for that question, or just make up a
place. They don't care as long as it was in the USA. The reason they
ask is to be able to warn you about potential complications of dual
citizenship (for example if you were a male between 16-30 and dad was
born in Syria, Syria considers you Syrian and draftable.