Last night I was filling out a form for a trip abroad I’ll probably be taking soon. They had the option to give your passport information now, which I was going to do. One of the questions was “city of issuance”, which is something that I don’t have. The closest I can figure out is that it would be the ‘authority’ field on my passport, which is the US Department of State. FWIW, it’s a fairly recent passport, issued in 2006.
Am I missing something? How do I find out what that is?
Our Canadian passports have the issuing office on the page with our photo and info. It just says something like “issued from: Hull, Québec” or whatever (I don’t have it in front of me, but I know mine came from Hull!)
If you trust Yahoo Answers, it looks like yours was issued from Washington DC directly, otherwise it would have a different entry in that field: Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos
My U.S. Passport has “Passport Agency / Chicago” written in the “Authority” field. So that’s where the city of issuance would be if it was printed on your passport.
Until recently, U.S. passports always specified a city of issuance near the place where the date of issuance appears. My newest U.S. passport has no city of issuance so I just write “Washington, DC” on disembarkation/immigration/visa forms and everybody seems happy.
If you are anywhere near the west coast it will be San Francisco.
Ah, okay. If it comes up again I’ll put that (the online form let me leave it blank). I think in reality the office where I mailed my application was probably Philadelphia, as it’s the closest to where I was at the time, but I doubt it makes much difference. Thanks.