Passport Information
Here is some of the information contained in passport files, as described in an official State Department document:
- Applications for passports, or applications for amendment, extension or renewal of passports;
- applications for registration at American Diplomatic and Consular Posts as U.S. citizens or for issuance of Certificates of Identity or Cards of Identity and Registration as U.S Citizens;
- Consular Reports of Birth Abroad of United States citizens;
- Certificates of Witness to Marriage;
- Certificates of Loss of United States Nationality;
- Certificates of Expatriation; Oaths of Repatriation; and
- Reports of Death of an American Citizen Abroad.
- Names of persons who have applied for, been issued passports or related facilities; and, to the extent not included in the Application for Vital Records or other category of records maintained by this agency; the names of persons who have been issued Consular Reports of Birth;
- Certificates of Birth; Consular Certificates of Repatriation;
- Certificates of Witness to Marriage;
- Certificates of Loss of United States Nationality;
- Reports of Death of an American Citizen Abroad; or been registered or issued
- Certificates of Identity or Cards of Identity and Registration as U.S. citizens;
- Lookout files which identify those persons whose cases require other than routine examination or action;
Miscellaneous materials– those documents/records maintained separately, if not in the application, including but not limited to:
- Investigatory reports compiled in connection with granting or denying passport and related services or prosecuting violations of passport criminal statutes;
- transcripts and opinions on administrative hearings, appeals and civil actions in federal courts;
- legal briefs, memoranda, judicial orders and opinions arising from administrative determinations relating to passports and citizenship;
- birth and baptismal certificates;
- court orders;
- arrest warrants;
- medical, personal and financial reports;
- affidavits;
- inter-agency and intra-agency memoranda, telegrams, letters and other miscellaneous correspondence;
- an electronic index of all passport application records created since 1978 and some passport application records created between 1962 and 1978;
- a currently expanding electronic index of Department of State Reports of Birth of American Citizens abroad which will eventually include all such documents.
Lots of possibilities in there for a political enemy, eh?
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