Can I use my miltary ID card to get a US passport?

Question

Can I use my miltary ID card to get a US passport?

Answer 1

Birth Certificate required

Answer 2

No. Has nothing to do with it.

U need to show you are a citizen.

Answer 3

You probably know more about citizenship for military people than we do. However, if you are a citizen you can get a passport. If you are not a citizen, you can not get a passport.

Citizenship can be acquired through several means: birth (hence everyone's notion of a passport), derived through a US citizen parent, naturalized, and bestowed by Congress (happens very seldom).

Merely being in the military does not confer citizenship, but can be one way to achieve naturalization. Hang in there, you'll make it.

Answer 4

No. Being in the military does not mean that you have US citizenship. You need proof of citizenship to get a passport.

Here is some info on passports:

New Application for a U.S. Passport

To obtain a passport for the first time, you need to go in person to one of over 9,000 passport acceptance facilities located throughout the United States with two photographs of yourself, proof of U.S. citizenship, and a valid form of photo identification such as a driver’s license.

Acceptance facilities include many Federal, state and probate courts, post offices, some public libraries and a number of county and municipal offices. There are also 13 regional passport agencies, and 1 Gateway City Agency, which serve customers who are traveling within 2 weeks (14 days), or who need foreign visas for travel. Appointments are required in such cases.

You’ll need to apply in person if you are applying for a U.S. passport for the first time:  if your expired U.S. passport is not in your possession; if your previous U.S. passport has expired and was issued more than 15 years ago; if your previous U.S. passport was issued when you were under age 16; or if your currently valid U.S. passport has been lost or stolen.

Present Proof of U.S. Citizenship

All documentation submitted as evidence of U.S. Citizenship will be returned to the applicant.  Evidence documents will either arrive with the issued passport or in a separate mailing to the applicant.  You may prove U.S. Citizenship with any one of the following:

Previous U.S. Passport (mutilated, altered, or damaged passports are not acceptable as evidence of U.S. citizenship.)

Certified birth certificate issued by the city, county or state

NOTE: A certified birth certificate has a registrar's raised, embossed, impressed or multicolored seal, registrar’s signature, and the date the certificate was filed with the registrar's office, which must be within 1 year of your birth.  Please note that some short (abstract) versions of birth certificates may not be acceptable for passport purposes.

Consular Report of Birth Abroad or Certification of Birth

Naturalization Certificate

Certificate of Citizenship

A Delayed Birth Certificate filed more than one year after your birth may be acceptable if it:

Listed the documentation used to create it and

Signed by the attending physician or midwife, or, lists an affidavit signed by the parents, or shows early public records.

If you do NOT have a previous U.S. passport or a certified birth certificate, you will need:

Letter of No Record

Issued by the State with your name, date of birth, which years were searched for a birth record and that there is no birth certificate on file for you.

AND as many of the following as possible:  

Baptismal certificate

Hospital birth certificate

Census record

Early school record

Family bible record

Doctor's record of post-natal care

NOTES: These documents must be early public records showing the date and place of birth, preferably created within the first five years of your life. You may also submit an Affidavit of Birth, form DS-10, from an older blood relative, i.e., a parent, aunt, uncle, sibling, who has personal knowledge of your birth. It must be notarized or have the seal and signature of the acceptance agent. If you were born abroad AND do not have a Consular Report of Birth Abroad or Certificate of Birth on file, you will need:

If you claim citizenship through birth abroad to one U.S. citizen parent:

Foreign birth certificate,

Proof of citizenship of your U.S. citizen parent, AND

An affidavit of your U.S. citizen parent showing all periods and places of residence or physical presence in the United States and abroad before your birth.

If you claim citizenship through birth abroad to two U.S. citizen parents:

Your foreign birth certificate,

Parent’s marriage certificate, AND

Proof of citizenship of your U.S. parents and an affidavit of your U.S. citizen parents showing all periods and places of residence of physical presence in the United States and abroad before your birth.

Click here for additional information on documentation of U.S. citizens born abroad who acquire citizenship at birth NOTE: The following are NOT proof of citizenship

Voter registration cards

Army discharge papers

NOTE: If you travel extensively, you may request more Visa pages in your passport at no additional cost.   To do so, please attach a signed request for additional Visa pages to be added to your application.  48-page passport s are no longer available in the U.S. or abroad.

Answer 5

No.  You need a birth certificate or an old, expired passport.