{"id":32439,"date":"2014-08-24T00:30:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T04:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=32439"},"modified":"2014-08-20T16:34:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T20:34:07","slug":"lehigh-acres-post-office-to-host-passport-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/08\/lehigh-acres-post-office-to-host-passport-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Acres Post Office<br> to Host Passport Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-32440\" title=\"Passport_sm\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Passport_sm-278x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Passport_sm-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Passport_sm.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/>The Lehigh Acres Post Office, 1201 Business Way Lehigh Acres FL 33936 is holding a Passport Fair on Saturday, August 30, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. by appointment only.\u00a0 To make an appointment, customers should call 239.369.9154.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. citizens must present a valid passport book when entering or re-entering the United States by air.\u00a0 U.S. citizens entering the United States from Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Bermuda at land borders and sea ports of entry must present a passport book, passport card or other travel documents approved by the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p>To obtain a passport applicants need to:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Bring proper proof of American citizenship. This must be either a certified birth certificate issued by the city, county or state; a previous U.S. passport; a certificate of citizenship; or a naturalization certificate. (Please note: a hospital-issued birth certificate alone is not acceptable.)<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Bring proof of identity.\u00a0 This must be either: a recently issued U.S. passport; a recently issued naturalization certificate; a recently issued certificate of citizenship; or a current valid driver\u2019s license, government ID or military photo ID.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Bring a photocopy of proof of identity.\u00a0 Each applicant must bring a photocopy of the front and back of the ID that will be presented at the time of passport acceptance.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0The passport application requires recent color passport photograph of you (2\u201d x 2\u201d in size). The Post Office will offer passport photo service for $15.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Customers should download the passport application\u00a0<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usps.com\/passport\" target=\"_blank\">www.travel.state.gov<\/a>\u00a0 and complete beforehand.\u00a0\u00a0Do not sign the application.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0All applicants must appear in person (including minors).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Minors under the age of 14 must appear with both parents.\u00a0 If one parent is not available, a notarized authorization from the absent parent is required.<\/p>\n<p>Each passport for an adult must be accompanied by a check or money order for $110, made payable to the U.S. Department of State and a $25 acceptance fee made payable to USPS.\u00a0 Fees for children under 16 are $80, payable to the U.S. Department of State and $25 payable to USPS.<\/p>\n<p>The cost to expedite processing at the Department of State is $60 paid per application, in addition to required fees.<\/p>\n<p>Customers can request to mail the passport application(s) overnight to the Department of State using<\/p>\n<p>Priority Mail Express offers the customer the ability to track their mailing.\u00a0 The cost to expedite delivery is $19.99 payable to USPS.\u00a0 A family can use one mailing for all of their applications.<\/p>\n<p>The cost to expedite the return service is $14.85 per application, paid directly to the Department of State for the delivery of an issued passport book from the Department of State to the customer. This service is only available to mailing addresses within the United States. Not valid for passport cards.<\/p>\n<p>Customers can call 1-800-ASK-USPS, or go to the Postal Service\u2019s Website\u00a0<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.usps.com<\/a>, to get the location of other nearby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lehigh Acres Post Office, 1201 Business Way Lehigh Acres FL 33936 is holding a Passport Fair on Saturday, August 30, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. by appointment only.\u00a0&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}