Apply for your first passport or renew a youth passport

The menu below provides more information about what you will need to bring to complete your passport applications for specific situations.

We offer passport photos for $20 and try to provide timely and same day appointments to eligible applicants.

You can call us at 802-951-5106 or email the county clerk, Beth Royer, with your passport questions.

Please note that while we have all paper passport forms available, passport service is by appointment and the upstairs office is not always staffed. Some specific forms can be requested as not all are out in the lobby of the courthouse, if you let us know, we can leave a copy of the form you need with the guards. Many forms are also available at the Burlington Post Office as well.

  • Will need:

    A completed DS-11 form

    A certified Copy of Birth Certificate and a photocopy of the birth certificate (or an expired, previously issued passport). If you were born in Vermont, most city clerks can print a certified copy.

    Both parents present with valid Vermont (for federal identification) (or out of state ID and secondary ID) and photocopies of front & back of all IDs presented. (If solo parenting, some proof of this like a birth certificate listing only one parent or an official court order granting one parent sole custody).

    Person applying for passport.

    Photos (we can take them for $20, payable by cash or check).

    A check or money order payable to Department of State for passport fees.

    Check or cash for execution fee payable to Chittenden County.

  • A completed DS-11 form

    A certified copy of Birth Certificate and photo copy of the birth certificate or Expired passport (if applicable)

    Valid Vermont (for federal identification) (or out of state ID and secondary ID) and photocopies of front & back of all IDs presented.

    Photos (we can take them for $20, cash or check).

    Check or money order payable to Department of State for passport fees.

    Check or cash for execution fee payable to Chittenden County.

    PLEASE NOTE applicants age 16-17 years old should apply with one parent present with ID.

  • Check to see if you are eligible to use the State Department’s Online Renewal Tool

    OR

    Complete form DS-82 and include in your envelope:

    Your expired or expiring passport

    Passport photo taken in the last 6 months

    Check for $130 payable to the Department of State, $190 if expediting, $212.05 if expediting with 1-2 day service.

    Mail the form with these items to the address on the DS-82 form. Please mail in a flat envelope and use a traceable delivery method.

    Full details on the State Department Website.

    DO NOTE: If your passport is more than 5 years expired, you will be prompted to apply in person with the DS-11 form at a passport acceptance facility like ours.

  • Visit the State Department website to track the status of your passport application.