[rolling_stone]

Passport Records for Issuances 1925 – Present
Requesting Your Own Record
Passport Services maintains United States passport records for passports issued from 1925 to the present. These records normally consist of applications for United States passports and supporting evidence of United States citizenship, and are protected by the Privacy Act of 1974, (5 USC 552(a)). Passport records do not include evidence of travel such as entrance/exit stamps, visas, residence permits, etc., since this information is entered into the passport book after it is issued.

http://www.travel.state.gov/passport/npic/npic_872.html

Looks like someone purged her files to me.

[jdirt]

I hope someone is planning to order their 1960-61 passport records on Monday. I do not believe the records were destroyed, as we were able to get passport records dated in the early 1970s.

If an order was given to destroy records “during the 1980s”, they would have destroyed all records or they may have destroyed records as requests came up.

[ml/nj]

Passport records do not include evidence of travel such as entrance/exit stamps, visas, residence permits, etc., since this information is entered into the passport book after it is issued.

But the APPLICATION does ask where and when you plan to travel, or at least it does now. And my recollection is that it did in the mid 70s when I applied for my first passport.

ML/NJ