US Passport Fees Set to Climb

If your passport needs to be renewed soon, if it needs extra pages for future travel or if you don't have  a passport but might need one (and now you do for neighboring Western Hemisphere nations), do whatever you need to before Tuesday, July 13. Post offices handle passport applications.

Passport Book

• New passport, adult, $135 (up from from $100).
• Renewal, $110 (up from $75). 
• Youth under 16,  $105 (up from $85).
• Extra pages, $82 (new fee). 

Passport Card

If you expect to travel only to Canada and/or Mexicom you can get a card instead of a book.

• Adult, $55 (up from $45).
• Youth, $40 (up from $35)

Reasons

  

No, the fee increases are not to help balance the budget. The US State Department says that passport fees cover the cost of actually producing the document but also but they also pay for emergency services provided to American citizens overseas by embassies and consular offices.