Passport Services

Renewal for Adults Whose Most Recent Passports Were Issued Before Their 16th Birthday

Please follow the instructions on this page if:

• You are at least 14 years old but have not yet reached your 18th birthday; and
• You are able to submit your most recent passport with your application.

Application Requirements

You must apply for a passport in person but do not require an appointment.  Please bring the following with you to the Consulate:

• Your most recent United States passport;


• Any foreign passport that you may currently hold, have held, or been included in;


• Name change documentation: If you have changed your name since your most recent passport was issued, you will be required to furnish name change documentation. Please follow this link for additional application requirements;


• If your physical appearance has changed significantly since the photograph in your previous U.S. passport was taken, please provide a series of photographs documenting your physical development;


• Passport application form DS-11: The instructions on this form are written for individuals applying for a passport within the United States.  As applications are processed differently outside the United States, please ignore the submission instructions on pages one and two of this form.  Form DS-11 must be printed on separate sheets of paper; do NOT print this form on front and back of the same sheet. For tips on completing the DS-11, follow this link;


• Two identical passport photographs: The Consulate will reject any photographs that do not meet the specified requirements. Vending machine photographs and photographs printed on a home computer are unacceptable;


• Fees: The application fee is $100.00 or Rs. 4600.  Accepted payment methods are as follows:


• Cash: either U.S. dollars or Indian rupees; or
• International money order to the exact U.S. dollar amount made payable to the "American Consulate General, Mumbai;" or
• Demand draft drawn in U.S. dollars on a bank in the United States made payable to the "American Consulate General, Mumbai;" or
• Demand draft drawn in Indian rupees on a nationalized or foreign bank payable to the "American Consulate General, Mumbai."
  
  Note: The Consulate is not authorized to accept personal checks. Money orders or demand drafts must have been issued within the last five months.
  
  
• If you would like to receive your new passport by courier, you must purchase a prepaid courier envelope from any western India VFS office for Rs. 152 and bring it with you. We regret that we are unable to accept the courier fees at the American Citizens Services Unit.

If any of the above requirements are pending on the day of the passport application, you will be allowed a period of 90 days to submit the missing evidence. If the missing evidence is not submitted within 90 days, the application is considered abandoned. The passport fee(s) is not refundable.

Processing Time

An application for a full-validity (ten years for adults) passport will be sent to the United States for printing with a secure, photo-digitized image of the bearer.  You should allow 15 working days for your application to be processed.

If you have an emergency need to travel within 15 working days and you can provide evidence of this travel, you may be eligible for an emergency limited-validity passport. Follow this link for further information.

For more information on passport renewals please click here.