All application payments should be made in cash, money order or cashier’s check payable to TECO. No personal check or credit card accepted.
Passport renewal
Processing time : around 8~10 weeks
When you are traveling or residing in Northern California, Nevada or Utah, your passport can be renewed at TECO in San Francisco. The following documents and fee are needed to renew your passport :
- A duly completed passport application form
- Your most recent passport
- A photocopy of your ID card of Taiwan, or Household Registry, or Household Registration Transcript of Taiwan.
- Two identical passport photos (1.77x1.38 inches, color)
- A duly completed Checklist for Applying for Entry Permit and Exit and Entry permit application form ( If you don't have Citizen's ID number, you have to complete this form)
- If you have US passport or US permanent resident card, please give us a copy!*** If your old passport has “Overseas Compatriot Identity Endorsement” stamp (僑居身分加簽), Option A: if you don’t want to transfer it to the new passport, please write “cancel Overseas Compatriot Identity Endorsement” in the blank space. Option B: if you want to transfer it to the new passport, please provide: a) original US passport or a notarized copy. B) 護照加移簽僑居身分申請書
- Other relevant certificates that may be required by BOCA or ROC overseas missions
- If the applicant is under 18 years old, both of the parents has to sign on application form, and provide a copy of the birth certificate and one of the parents’ passport copy.
- A fee of US $45. Payment Method : Cash, cashier checks and Money Order (Make it payable to “TECO”). Credit card and personal check are not accepted.
- Please enclose a self addressed, stamped USPS Express Mail envelope with $32 postage or a Priority flat rate envelope with $15 postage (priority plus certified so signature is required)
- Mailing address: TECO ( PASSPORT) 345 4th Street, San Francisco , CA 94107
Passport photos
Your passport photos must be: (please see attachment #1)
- 1.77×1.38 inches in size color photos. (From the top of the head to the chin must be within 3.2 – 3.6 cm)
- Full face, front view with a plain white background.
- Taken within the past 6 months.
- No showing teeth, no reflection of light on forehead of photos.
- It must show both ears, no wearing a hat or headgear except for religious reasons.
- Identical.
- No composite photos.
- No dark glasses or glasses with tinted lenses allowed unless it is for medical reasons.
