[MamaDearest]

Biographical Questionnaire for a US Passport (pdf)

The proposed new Form DS-5513 asks for all addresses since birth; lifetime employment history including employers’ and supervisors names, addresses, and telephone numbers; personal details of all siblings; mother’s address one year prior to your birth; any “religious ceremony” around the time of birth; and a variety of other information. According to the proposed form, “failure to provide the information requested may result in … the denial of your U.S. passport application.”

[Doe Eyes]

The new form, which would be called DS-5513, is a biographical questionnaire that the Department of State would send out whenever a passport applicant “submits citizenship or identity evidence that is insufficient or of questionable authenticity.”

In other words, if you have a delayed birth certificate filed more than one year after you were born, or you were born at home with a midwife instead of in a hospital, you would probably need to fill out DS-5513.

[Colonel_Flagg]

It's not clear from the supporting statement, statement of legal authorities, or regulatory assessment submitted by the State Department to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) why declining to discuss one's siblings or to provide the phone number of your first supervisor when you were a teenager working at McDonalds would be a legitimate basis for denial of a passport to a U.S. citizen.

My first supervisor is deceased. I'm thinking his number is unlisted.

[Colonel_Flagg]

I find the “Paperwork Reduction Act” disclosure at the end of the form to be especially ironic.

[19th LA Inf]

I don’t have any plans to apply for another passport, but I don’t see how I could complete this questionnaire. For example, my mother was born 113 years ago. The college that she attended briefly can’t even find any record that she was there, let alone where she lived. I never owned a home until I was 33 years old. There were times I lived for a week or less at an address, no way I could remember it. I didn’t have any trouble, either in military service or years of civilian employment, in getting high level security clearances either. Who dreams up this stuff anyway?

[RikaStrom]

Check this out. Good grief.

[Lucky9teen]

I moved about 13 times within a 3 year period in the 90’s...there’s NO way I can remember every address since birth.

HOMELAND OF TYRANNY at your service...f em. When the occupant of the Oval Office answers ALL of these questions HONESTLY, only then will I. Thank fully, I don’t need a passport any time soon.

[Nachum]

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[Gondring]

If I’m not mistaken, the public comment period on this just closed.

[Gondring]

http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2011/02/24/2011-4154/60-day-notice-of-proposed-information-collection-ds-5513-biographical-questionnaire-for-us-passport