NAPHSIS Congressional Briefing “Vital Records: Vital for a Reason!” U.S. Passports NAPHSIS Congressional Briefing “Vital Records: Vital for a Reason!” United States Capitol Visitor Center Room South Monday, July 22, 2013, 12 p.m.

Passport Services 28 Domestic Passport Facilities 22 serve the public directly 1 supports U.S. government travel 3 mega-adjudication centers 2 document print centers 29th Facility to open in San Juan, PR (Winter 2014) 9,000+ Passport Application Acceptance Facilities Domestic Passport Acceptance Facilities (Post Offices, Clerks of Court, Libraries, etc) Military Acceptance Facilities Worldwide Federal Acceptance Facilities 3,500 employees Government Contractors (Support processing and customer service functions)

Passport Facilities Seattle National Passport Vermont Minneapolis Buffalo Connecticut Boston Detroit New York Philadelphia San Francisco Chicago Denver Washington and Special Issuance Los Angeles San Diego Arkansas Atlanta Tucson Charleston Dallas El Paso Houston New Orleans Miami San Juan Agency Honolulu KEY Adjudication Center Winter 2014 Print Center

Saturation Map PENDING from PPS Passport saturation map (by zip code) The mentioned that she would like to see a map of showing where passports are issued. If I recall correctly there is a 2011 map. I am not sure if there is a 2012 map available. I understand that it’s not so easy to come up with a current map.  Please let us know what you can provide.

EVVE – Critical to the U.S. Passport Process EVVE is critical to our efforts to improve the passport adjudication network 49 of 57 entities supply birth data to EVVE 27 of 57 provide death data More than 70 percent of first time of passport applicants submit a birth certificate as proof of US citizenship Verified more than 12,000 birth records in last year Instrumental in identifying 24 instances of felony fraud