You can get a passport from any local State Department Passport Agency, post office, or courthouse. Proof of citizenship, such as a certified copy of a birth certificate or a certificate of naturalization or citizenship. To find the passport agency closest to your location, link to the US Department of State Passport Services site. You should give yourself at least two months time to obtain a passport. If you are in a real hurry, you can contact a passport expeditor.
Passports are valid for ten years for adults and five years for children.
After you get your first passport, renewing after it expires is fairly simple. If it was issued after you were sixteen years old and within the last fifteen years, you can apply by mail. If not, however, you're considered a first-timer and have to go through the original application process again. Guards at border crossings will often ask you to fill out a transit travel form and include a photograph of yourself. Visas Visa requirements change as often as political winds do.