Adult Passport application (10-years validity)
Passport Renewal for Adult
First Australian Passport for Adult / First Adult Passport
Please note that Passport appointment bookings are required for all in person passport applications.
Passport Renewal for Adult
1. Application form (Australian Passport Renewal Application)
Please complete the application form from the Australian Passport Office website.
- Australian Passport Website: http://www.passports.gov.au (Note: You will need to create an account before you commence the process.)
- Follow the steps & Complete each questionnaires
- Print at the final stage
Note: Application form containing significant alterations and a large amount of white-out is not acceptable. No alterations can be made to any signatures on the application form.
Click here for more information about mailed-in applications.
2. Photos
Please check the photo guidelines and advise your photographer.
Note: Photographs should not be photo-shopped, altered or re-touched.
Photographs taken with digital cameras must be high quality colour and printed on photo quality paper; poor quality photograph will be rejected.
New policy on passport photos
Australia Passport Office no longer allows glasses in passport photos taken from 1 July 2018.
Glasses may be allowed in rare circumstances where glasses cannot be removed for medical reasons (e.g. the applicant has severe light sensitivity or recently had eye surgery and glasses are necessary to protect their eyes). In these cases, a medical certificate is required to be presented at lodgement of the passport application.
The medical certificate must be signed by a medical practitioner and state the medical reason glasses cannot be removed.
3. Current Passport
4. Payment
Fees apply for all services. Fees are only accepted by credit card or debit card.
First Australian Passport for Adult/First Adult Passport
1. Application form (Application for an Australian Passport – Overseas)
Please complete the application form from the Australian Passport Office website.
- Australian Passport Website: http://www.passports.gov.au (Note: You will need to create an account before you commence the process.)
- Follow the steps & Complete each questionnaires
- Print at the final stage
Note: Application form containing significant alterations and a large amount of white-out is not acceptable. No alterations can be made to any signatures on the application form.
2. Photos – One photo needs to be correctly endorsed by guarantor
Please check the photo guidelines and advise your photographer.
A guarantor has to sign section 11 of your application form and endorse the back of a passport photo by writing 'This is a true photo of (your full name)' and signing in black pen.
Your guarantor:
· must be an adult Australian citizen who has known you for more than a year
· cannot be any kind of relative, or in a de facto relationship with you, or living at the same address as you.
For your application, you’ll need your referee’s or guarantor’s full name, their phone number, and either their current Australian passport details or the address at which they’ve been on the electoral roll for the past 12 months.
If you’re applying overseas, the guarantor can be someone with a current Australian passport, or a person of any nationality who’s employed in an approved occupational group.
· List of Approved Professional or Occupational Groups
Note: Photographs should not be photo-shopped, altered or re-touched.
Photographs taken with digital cameras must be high quality colour and printed on photo quality paper; poor quality photograph will be rejected.
New policy on passport photos
Australia Passport Office no longer allows glasses in passport photos taken from 1 July 2018.
Glasses may be allowed in rare circumstances where glasses cannot be removed for medical reasons (e.g. the applicant has severe light sensitivity or recently had eye surgery and glasses are necessary to protect their eyes). In these cases, a medical certificate is required to be presented at lodgement of the passport application.
The medical certificate must be signed by a medical practitioner and state the medical reason glasses cannot be removed.
3. Current Australian Passport for First Adult Passport applicant
4. Proof of Identity
You need to provide combination 1, combination 2 or combination 3 of the identify document in categories A, B and C in the link.
5. Proof of Australian Citizenship
♟Applicant born in Australia:
☞Original Australian Birth Certificate
♟Applicant born in Korea or Overseas:
☞Original Australian Citizenship Certificate "and"
☞Original Overseas Birth Certificate;
- Birth Certificate issued by the local hospital in the Republic of Korea (in English)
Or
- English Certificate of Family Relations of the Republic of Korea
From 27 December 2019, the Korean government commenced to issue the English Certificate of Family Relations.
This document can be issued at the nearest Community Services Centre/Gu Office or http://efamily.scourt.go.kr)
Or
- Combination of translated/certified Basic Certificate and Family relations certificate of the Republic of Korea
For those who are not eligible to get an English Certificate of Family Relations of the Republic of Korea
6. Payment
Fees apply for all services. Fees are only accepted by credit card or debit card.
*Obligations of Foreigner residing in the Republic of Korea (Alien Registration Matters)
The Korean Immigration Service and the Ministry of Justice in the Republic of Korea advise that registered foreign nationals are required to report any changes in their alien registration matters to the Chief of the Immigration Office.
· This includes changes in:
· Name
· Gender
· Date of birth
· Nationality
· Place of stay
· Passport number and its issue/expiry date
For change to passport number or issue/expiry date, the mandatory reporting period is 30 days after the Issue Date of a new passport. For all other changes the mandatory reporting period is 14 days. In accordance with Article 100 of the Immigration Act, administrative fines of less than one million KRW are imposed for violations of the provision of the Act.
Report of these changes can be made through e-application service at www.hikorea.go.kr, civil petitions by facsimile service (1577-1346), or you may also visit jurisdictional immigration offices to report the changes. Required documents are copies of your new passport and alien registration card.
Should you require further assistance on this matter please contact the Immigration Contact Centre at 1345.