Passport fees in 2026, payment by payment

The seven numbers on the chart

Everything you can owe for a U.S. passport comes from seven lines of the State Department chart: the book, the card and the pair, each at an adult and a child price; the $35 execution fee; $60 for expedited service; $26.87 for 1-3 day delivery; and $150 for a file search. A correction of a data or printing error on Form DS-5504 is free, and a name change within one year of issue is free as well. The calculator above reads those lines from one file, so the amount it shows is the amount printed on the chart, and the tables under this text are generated from the same file.

The fee for an adult book is not a round number chosen for the chart. The federal fee schedule, 22 CFR 22.1, splits it into $50 of application services and an $80 security surcharge, the “enhanced border security fee”. For a child the application part is $20, with the same surcharge, which gives $100. The card has no surcharge, which is why it costs so much less.

Who receives which payment

When you apply in person, the money goes to two different places. The application fee and every option go on a single check or money order payable to “U.S. Department of State”, with the applicant’s name and date of birth in the memo line. The execution fee is a separate payment to the post office, clerk or library, and each facility decides how it takes it. When you renew by mail you send one check; when you renew online or at a passport agency you pay by card. The result panel above writes the payee next to each amount, so you can prepare the right payments before you go.

The highest and the lowest bill

The cheapest passport document is a child’s card at $50 with the facility fee, or an adult card renewal at $30. The most expensive single application is an adult book and card, expedited, with 1-3 day delivery and a file search: $431.87. Most people pay $165 the first time and $130 at each renewal.