Passport application question -- city of birth (hospital or where you live)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you post a follow up? What happened with the Passport application listing Falls Church? Was it accepted? My daughter was just born at iNova Fairfax and I am dealing with the same quandary. Application wants city of birth, but all the birth certificate lists is Fairfax County.

Arlington is a county, not a city. Lots of people in rural areas only have a county to go by. I would list Fairfax- you’ll be in good company.

[Anonymous]

Our DS was born at INOVA Fairfax and we always put Fairfax, VA - the same as his birth certificate. We have regular and diplomatic passports as DH works for State. Never an issue.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like the anonymous poster is the one that’s clueless not the original poster. Virginia does not put a city on birth certificates and that can understandably cause confusion on what you should put on official forms that ask for city and state. again this is statewide but sometimes the city/county are the same. We always put Falls Church as the city but officially our kids only have Fairfax County, VA on their birth certificate

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've never pondered this before. Just lucky that we lived in Arlington back in the the day of Arlington Hospital. So the answer was easy.

Not really. I was filling out forms for another country and they demanded to know city of birth. They would not accept Arlington County, saying they wanted the town or city not the county. There is no city in Arlington. It is the smallest county in the US.

We kept going back and forth and it was driving me crazy.

[Anonymous]

We live in Arlington but kids born in Reston at Reston hospital. Never had an issue with the passport process. Obviously we put Reston.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've never pondered this before. Just lucky that we lived in Arlington back in the the day of Arlington Hospital. So the answer was easy.

Not really. I was filling out forms for another country and they demanded to know city of birth. They would not accept Arlington County, saying they wanted the town or city not the county. There is no city in Arlington. It is the smallest county in the US.

We kept going back and forth and it was driving me crazy.

Arlington is a city per the USPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've never pondered this before. Just lucky that we lived in Arlington back in the the day of Arlington Hospital. So the answer was easy.

Not really. I was filling out forms for another country and they demanded to know city of birth. They would not accept Arlington County, saying they wanted the town or city not the county. There is no city in Arlington. It is the smallest county in the US.

We kept going back and forth and it was driving me crazy.

Arlington is a city per the USPS.

Maybe, but that wasn't good enough for the foreign embassy.

Have you ever tried to buy something overseas and had to squash your US address into that country's address format? The country I was dealing with has no states or counties, and US documents did not fit their legal format.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used Fairfax County, Virginia, for my kid's passports. They were born at Inova. Although "Falls Church" is the address of Inova Hospital on Gallows Road, it is not located in the City of Falls Church geographically, it is located in Fairfax County. Most geographic locations in Virginia are not actually within the confines of a city.

This is the correct answer. Inova Fairfax is in the Falls Church part of Fairfax County, not in the City of Falls Church.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whatever is on the birth certificate.

Agree.

[Anonymous]

If some entity looks up the birth certificate it should match the passport application.

[Anonymous]

the Falls Church part of Fairfax County, not in the City of Falls Church.

OP (from years ago) was a bit stubborn, but Northern Virginia does not make things easy.