Report Birth Abroad

• Your child and both parents
• Completed “Application for a Consular Report of Birth” (Form DS-2029 - pdf) - DO NOT SIGN!
  • How to complete form DS-2029 - (pdf)
• Completed Form SS-5 (pdf) Application for a Social Security Card – signed by the U.S. citizen parent
• Please complete Passport application form DS-11 - disregard the instructions on the reverse of the form!)
• Child's Austrian birth certificate (International version)
• Parents' U.S./Alien passports
• Parents' marriage certificates (Civil records)
• Proof of termination of any previous marriages (Death or divorce certificates)
• If applicable, Austrian affidavit of paternity (Vaterschaftserklaerung)
• Two identical passport photos, see photo instructions.
• If only one parent is a U.S. citizen, that parent's proof of 5 years physical presence in the U.S. (employment records, school transcripts, tax returns, etc.) prior to the child’s birth is needed.
• Any previous Consular Report of Birth Abroad issued to other children in the family to expedite processing
• The fee of USD $150 (or Euro equivalent, in cash or credit card) for the CRBA and the passport
• Self-addressed envelope
  
  ATTENTION: For all passport applications you must submit a self-addressed and pre-paid envelope for return registered mail!!!
  For maximum security, we will only return passports by registered mail, please follow as instructed;
  Please purchase from your local post office a “Einschreiben/Registered” sticker and postage for up to 4 passports € 1.25. Fill in the sticker and apply both the sticker and stamps to your self-addressed envelope.

Child Citizenship Act