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Tell The State Department: Reform Your New Passport Regulations

Where did your mother live when you were conceived?  Are you circumcised?  If the State Department has its way, certain passport applicants will be forced to answer these intrusive questions and dozens more.

Here's Consumer Traveler's summary of their proposal:

The proposed new  Form DS-5513 asks for all addresses since birth; lifetime employment history including employers’ and supervisors names, addresses, and telephone numbers; personal details of all siblings; mother’s address one year prior to your birth; any “religious ceremony” around the time of birth; and a variety of other information.  According to the proposed form, “failure to provide the information requested may result in … the denial of your U.S. passport application.”

Thankfully, the State Department is taking public comments on its proposal.  Will you let them know that it's over the top and that they need to reform it?

PETITION TO ALEXYS GARCIA, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Your proposed passport questionnaire is an undue invasion of Americans' privacy.  Most normal Americans have no idea where their mothers lived the year before they were born -- and whether or not somebody is circumcised is none of your business.  Please reconsider and present a more reasonable alternative.  

Just sign on at right and we'll forward your message to the State Department.

Here's MSNBC's report on the proposed passport regs.

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