# US Passport "City of Issuance" **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 1, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-passport-city-of-issuance/439748 "2008-03-01T17:26:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-passport-city-of-issuance/439748/1 "2008-03-01T17:26:41Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-passport-city-of-issuance/439748/2 "2008-03-01T18:04:53Z")
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](http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070608103238AARSkAR) ---
**Author:** ![MikeS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MikeS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeS)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-passport-city-of-issuance/439748/3 "2008-03-01T18:26:44Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Yeah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/dbc845/32.png) [@Yeah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeah)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2008, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-passport-city-of-issuance/439748/4 "2008-03-02T12:08:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2008, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-passport-city-of-issuance/439748/5 "2008-03-02T16:44:40Z")
If you are anywhere near the west coast it will be San Francisco. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-passport-city-of-issuance/439748/6 "2008-03-02T19:42:57Z")
[QUOTE=Yeah] 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. [/QUOTE] 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.