Passport Signature

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dieguito

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Hello:

I have a question about the signature on the passport.
I went Monday to the Passport office in NYC and got a new passport. To my surprise, they did not require my fingerprint. I finished submitting all the information and paperwork by 9:30 and was given the passport at 12. The lady asked me to verify that all the information was correct. It was and I left.
Then, I realized that I had no signed the passport.

This is the question: Do I just sign it on my own? No need for them to see how I do it?

I am asking because when I get a passport from my native country they take my fingerprint and they make me sign in front of them. Then, my fingerprint and signature are included in the passport under a protective film so they cannot be altered.

Thanks!
 
You are a citizen now - the days of getting fingerprinted are long gone! USA does not fingerprint passport applicants and the signature is not included on the bio page of the passport

Just sign the passport on the page indicated, and use your regular signature to sign the passport. This should be the same signature you use to sign checks, etc. DO NOT sign it in cursive as may have been instructed for the naturalization certificate.
 
Triple Citizen said:
My wife, born and bred is the US, was fingerprinted before she was allowed to board a US airways flight in 2002.
Stranger things have happend :)
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Yea - I've heard of these "hiccups" occurring - but they aren't the norm are they? I hope your wife filed a complaint as this is VERY discriminatory. I can tell this is from the post-9/11 paranoia as the hiccups I am referring to happened around the same time as well. The most notable one being a bunch of Muslims (most of them born and raised in the US) were fingerprinted upon returning from a religious conference in Toronto. They even detained a few for several hours and questioned them.

Personally, I would refuse being fingerprinted ever again in connection to Immigration. An airline doesn't' want me to board - thats' fine - they need to refund my ticket and I'll happily take my business elsewhere. As for other officials, they can check my status many other ways without fingerprinting me. :D Enough said!
 
whatever you do, make sure you remember to sign it.

one of my cousins, who was born in the US, forgot to sign his US passport.

the immigration officer at London Heathrow airport gave him a hard time,
saying the passport was not valid until signed.... and asked how he was
able to travel around the EU for 3 weeks earlier. He was questioned for
20 minutes and only allowed into the UK after he signed the passport
right at the immigration counter.
 
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