U.S. Embassy & Consulates
in Türkiye

Steps

Step 1: Complete Application

The following items must be included in your mail-in application:

• Fill out and print your application form using the online Passport Wizard. The Passport Wizard will automatically direct you to the appropriate application form.  When the Passport Wizard directs you to the “Next Steps” page, simply click “Create Form” at the bottom and print out the form it generates.
• Your most recent original U.S. passport and a photocopy of it. We will cancel and return this passport to you with your new passport.
• Sign your application form.
• One passport photograph that meets the specified requirements . You must remove glasses for their passport photo, except in rare, medically-documented circumstances.
• Name change documentation: If you have changed your name since your last passport was issued, legal name change documentation, such as your original marriage certificate (Turkish marriage certificates is multilingual and do not need to be translated) or other original legal document (official English translation of divorce decrees needs to be submitted) and a copy are required. Originals will be returned to you with your new passport.
• Fee payment: Either pay.gov payment confirmation or Garanti bank blocked check (see step 2 for details).
• You must provide your Social Security Number (SSN) in accordance with 26 U.S.C. 6039E .
• If you have never been issued an SSN, enter 000-00-0000 on the application form  and fill out the following statement: SSN Statement: SSN Never Issued (PDF 89KB). You will need to apply for an SSN when you receive your new passport.

Step 2: Pay the Fee

Expedited services or 1-2 day delivery are not available in Turkiye, so please do not include expedited service or 1-2 delivery fee in your check.

1. Pay online using the U.S. government’s secure payment site.  The passport application fee is U.S. $130.  The passport card application fee is U.S. $30.

2. Pay with a cashier’s check (keşide çek) – bloke döviz çeki or yurtiçi döviz çeki* – issued by Garanti BBVA Bank (only the main city branches will be able to provide cashier’s checks in U.S. dollars).

• In order to obtain a cashier’s check, please ask your local Garanti BBVA branch if they have a USD blocked check on hand. Only the main city branches will be able to provide cashier’s checks in U.S. dollars. You can ask them to process the check from the drawing the check (keşide çek düzenleme) option.
• If the Garanti BBVA Bank you are using is not familiar with the cashier check process, please have the representative get in touch with the Garanti BBVA Istanbul Branch at  0-212-229-6640 or Garanti BBVA Embassy Ankara Branch at 0-312-294-0329 depending on where you reside.

• • • Cashier’s checks are valid for ten days and should be received at the Embassy at least three days before the expiration date. The check should be made payable to “U.S. Embassy Ankara.”
    • The bank issuing the check may charge additional fees.
    • If you are mailing in more than one application, please ensure each person applying has a separate check in the amount of $130. A single check for multiple applications will be sent back causing unnecessary delay.

Step 3: Mail-in your application

U.S. Embassy Ankara
ATTN: Consular/ACS
1480 Sok No:1 Cukurambar Mah
Cankaya 06530, Ankara

If you are not eligible to renewal by mail, please schedule an appointment and bring all necessary documents to your appointment.