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US passport · Form DS-11

Photocopy of your ID for a passport application

With Form DS-11 you show your ID and hand in a photocopy of its front and back, on white 8.5 × 11 in paper, one side, not made smaller.1 The tool puts both sides on one Letter page at their real size.

Make the photocopy

A white 8.5 by 11 inch sheet with the front and back of a specimen card printed on its one side at 100%SPECIMENSPECIMENFront · 100%Back · 100%8.5 in11 inWhite paper · printed on one side
Both sides on the front of one white Letter sheet, at 100%: nothing made smaller.
Paper
White 8.5 × 11 in
Printed
One side
Image size
Not reduced
Sides
Front and back

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Your ID photocopy

Photograph the ID you'll present. Print at 100% on white Letter paper.

Paper
US Letter
Saves as
id-card-front-back.pdf

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The rules, word for word

What the State Department asks for.

The form, in short: "Present your original identification and submit a front and back photocopy with this form."2

Front and backOf each ID you present

"Submit a photocopy of the front and back of each ID that you present when you apply."1

PaperWhite, 8.5 × 11 in

"Your photocopy must be on white, 8.5'' x 11" standard paper and on one side of the paper."1

SizeNot smaller

"Do not decrease the image size. You may make the image size bigger."1

Physical IDNo digital IDs

Digital IDs, mobile licenses and mobile IDs aren't accepted: "You must give us a physical, photo ID and a photocopy of the ID."1

Same page?

Front and back on one sheet.

The rule is "on one side of the paper"; the apply-in-person page says "Use a single side of the paper".13

Neither asks for separate sheets. Unsure? Ask the acceptance facility.

Color

Color or black and white?

The current page doesn't say. A 2023 version asked for a copy that was "black and white, and single sided".4 Now it asks for white paper and one side.1

Grayscale matches the older wording.

Which IDs

Primary photo IDs on the list.

US passport

Book or card, valid or expired, undamaged.1 Passport card.

Driver's license

In-state, fully valid, with photo.1 License copy.

Certificates and employee IDs

A Certificate of Naturalization or of Citizenship, or a city, county, state or federal government employee ID.1

A military ID? DS-11 accepts it,2 but copying one needs authorization.56 Ask first, or present another ID.

Also in the envelope

Your citizenship evidence needs a copy too.

On 8.5 × 11 in paper, one side.3

Citizenship evidence

"Submit your evidence of U.S. citizenship and a photocopy of the front." The back too if it has printed information.7 A birth certificate is a full page: use a copier.

Bring the originals

"Photocopies will not be returned."2

Sources

  1. U.S. Department of State Photo ID Requirements (passports). Read 7 October 2026. Read through the Internet Archive's copy (copy of 7 July 2026; the live page asks visitors to prove they are human).
  2. U.S. Department of State Form DS-11, Application for a U.S. Passport (edition 04-2025). Read 7 October 2026.
  3. U.S. Department of State Apply for a passport in person (adults). Read 7 October 2026. Read through the Internet Archive's copy (copy of 11 July 2026; the live page asks visitors to prove they are human).
  4. U.S. Department of State Identification (passports), the version of January 2023. Read 7 October 2026. Read through the Internet Archive's copy (copy of 28 January 2023; the address now leads to the current Photo ID page).
  5. U.S. Government Publishing Office 18 U.S.C. § 701, Official badges, identification cards, other insignia (U.S. Code, 2023 edition). Read 7 October 2026.
  6. eCFR 32 CFR Part 161, Identification (ID) Cards for Members of the Uniformed Services, § 161.6(b)(1). Read 7 October 2026.
  7. U.S. Department of State Citizenship Evidence (passports). Read 7 October 2026. Read through the Internet Archive's copy (copy of 11 July 2026; the live page asks visitors to prove they are human).

Official pages only: the standards, the agencies and the printer makers themselves. Where a page didn't say something, neither do we.