*As of April 2nd, 2018, the passport acceptance fee increased from $25 to $35.
All children, no matter how young, need a passport of their own to leave the country by air and in some cases by land and sea.
The procedure for getting a child passport is somewhat different from the procedure for getting an adult passport. Concerns about children being abducted and taken overseas have prompted the Department of State to build safeguards against this practice into the passport application process for minors.
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