(a) An application for a passport, a replacement passport, or other passport related service must be completed using the forms the Department prescribes.
(b) The passport applicant must truthfully answer all questions and must state every material matter of fact pertaining to his or her eligibility for a passport. All information and evidence submitted in connection with an application is considered part of the application. A person providing false information as part of a passport application, whether contemporaneously with the form or at any other time, is subject to prosecution under applicable Federal criminal statutes.
[72 FR 64931, Nov. 19, 2007, as amended at 80 FR 72592, Nov. 20, 2015]
authority: 8 U.S.C. 1104;
8 U.S.C. 1185;
8 U.S.C. 1185n (text of Pub. L. 108-458, 118 Stat. 3638, 3823 (Dec. 17, 2004));
8 U.S.C. 1504;
8 U.S.C. 1714;
22 U.S.C. 211a,
212,
212a,
212b,
213,
213n (Pub. L. 106-113 Div. B, Sec. 1000(a)(7) [Div. A, Title II, Sec. 236], 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A-430); 214, 214a, 217a, 218, 2651a, 2671(d)(3), 2705, 2714, 2714a, 2721, and 3926;
26 U.S.C. 6039E;
26 CFR 301.6039E-1;
31 U.S.C. 9701;
34 U.S.C. 21501-21510;
42 U.S.C. 652(k) ; E.O. 11295, Aug. 5, 1966, 31 FR 10603, 3 CFR, 1966-1970 Comp., p. 570; Pub. L. 114-119, 130 Stat. 15
source: 72 FR 64931, Nov. 19, 2007, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 22 CFR 51.20