Who do i make a cheque out to for a passport?
That depends, of course, on where you’re getting your passport. If you’re in the U.S. and are applying for a U.S. passport, the easiest thing to do is to visit one of the 9,000+ passport acceptance facilities in the country — these are very often post offices, but can also sometimes be courthouses. You can search for one near you here: http://iafdb.travel.state.gov/. I called the National Passport Information Center for you to double-check to whom you should write out your check, and here’s the answer: when you get your passport at one of these facilities, you’re actually going to be making out TWO checks — the first should be written out to the U.S. Department of State for your passport application fee and security surcharge, and the second — for the execution fee — should be written out to whichever facility you use (they’ll obviously be able to tell you their official name when you’re in there.) I suspect, however, fro
