Finance Secretary Larrisa Larson advises the public that the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs will impose a $10-increase on the U.S. passport execution fee by April 2, 2018.<\/p>\n
The $10 fee increase, however, does not apply to adults eligible to renew their passport by mail using the DS-82 form.\u00a0Renewal customers can mail their application and supporting documentation to the Department of State and should not apply at a passport acceptance facility or pay an execution fee.<\/p>\n
Larson clarifies, however, that all U.S. passport fees stay in the CNMI.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this time, the only acceptance agent is our Saipan U.S. Passport Office. Our office hours are Monday through Friday 8am to 11:30am and 1pm to 4pm,\u201d Larson said.<\/p>\n
Applicants are encouraged to visit our Saipan U.S. Passport acceptance facility regarding any questions about first-time applicants or renewals.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Passport Office is located at Ascension Drive Building 1321 on Capital Hill or call 664-4760 for more information on this fee increase. (PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Finance Secretary Larrisa Larson advises the public that the U.S. Department of State Bureau of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20474,182,14906,320],"class_list":["post-272325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-ascension-drive-building","tag-capital-hill","tag-passport-office","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}