Updating photo on my son's passport

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CT786

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We made our son's passport when he was a couple of months old due to unavoidable international travel. Now he is over 2 years old and look nothing like his photo on his passport. We are thinking about replacing his passport to have his photo updated.

Can someone advice if it is possible and what is the procedure?

Thank you in advance.
 
CT786 said:
We made our son's passport when he was a couple of months old due to unavoidable international travel. Now he is over 2 years old and look nothing like his photo on his passport. We are thinking about replacing his passport to have his photo updated.

Can someone advice if it is possible and what is the procedure?

Thank you in advance.
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apply new passport if you want. FYI the passport that Child has with him/her is Valid and they know that child feature dont remain the same. I dont see any problem to go out or enter US with present passport. many get child passport when child is 2 month old do you think the child will remain same for 5 years?
** FYI the child will be having latest photo on Visa stamp(if child need Visa) or if child belong to indian parents will have photo on it POI card/ Visa After US passport photo
 
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I have used the passport for my son to travel a couple of times with a photo taken when he was around 7-8 months and used the PP for its entire validity period without any issues.
 
I think it depends a bit from which country is the passport and you forgot to say which country issued that passport. For example, this is a little snippet from the Canadian passport application form:
"Note: Children who have been issued a passport in their first
12 months may be issued a one-time replacement passport,
free of charge, valid for the balance of the three-year validity
period of the original passport. Full application requirements
must be met. To ensure the photo is a current and true likeness
of the child, it must be taken within one month of the date the
application is submitted"

I would think that you can replace the current passport, but policies on replacement change from country to country and I don't know whether they make a difference of the case of very young children, but they probably do in most countries. I mean a difference in the sense that some countries don't let you replace the passport if the passport has more than 6 months of validity on it, but perhaps they make an exception with baby passports.

My 2 cents.
 
Huracan said:
I think it depends a bit from which country is the passport and you forgot to say which country issued that passport. For example, this is a little snippet from the Canadian passport application form:
"Note: Children who have been issued a passport in their first
12 months may be issued a one-time replacement passport,
free of charge, valid for the balance of the three-year validity
period of the original passport. Full application requirements
must be met. To ensure the photo is a current and true likeness
of the child, it must be taken within one month of the date the
application is submitted"
-------------------------------the thread is for US Citizenship it means the poster needed info for US passport not for Canada or other country Passport



My 2 cents.
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I would let the original poster speak for herself/himself. This is a US citizenship thread, but a lot of people have asked a lot of questions about their foreign passports, mainly related to expired or expiring passports around interview time or oath time. That said, yes, it is likely that the passport is a U.S. passport. I included the Canadian passport snippet, because it was the only one I found that mentioned anything about replacing a passport for a baby, and to illustrate the point that each country might have different policies. I couldn't find any information for U.S. passport that they have a similar stance on baby's passports as the Canadian authorities have.
 
My son was issued an Indian passport when he was 4 years old with a validity of 20 years !

We had no problems using his passport over the past 10 years even though he looks very different now.
 
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