DS-11 for child in foreign country (Japan)

[CptSupermrkt 1]

I have searched high and low and simply cannot find the definitive 100% correct answers to these questions regarding DS-11 (application for U.S. passport):

#6 Email Address:

It's a newborn child, he doesn't have an e-mail address. Should I put mine? My wife's? There is a vague reference at the bottom of the 2nd page of instructions that implies that this field is OPTIONAL. But I can find no other such implications or statements that indicate which fields are required/optional.

#7 Primary Contact Phone Number:

It's a newborn child, he doesn't have a phone number. The phone number to get in contact with his mother is a Japanese phone number, yet there is no where on the form to indicate the country of the phone number. Should I put my U.S. phone number, even though I'm physically separated from the child?

#8: Mailing Address:

It's a newborn child. Do I put my address in the U.S., or do I put the address where the child is living (with his mother in Japan)? In the event of putting the mailing address of the child in Japan, there simply are not enough squares on the sheet to accommodate for a Japanese "state" (prefecture) and Japanese zip-code. What do I do? Scrunch the values in as best as possible? Provide the information on a separate sheet? I simply cannot find any official documentation on this whatsoever.

#17 Permanent Address:

He is living with his mother in Japan. The form does not have a field in this question to enter a country, and it appears to only be in the form of U.S. address. He is living in Japan for the foreseeable future, and does not have a permanent U.S. address.

#18 Emergency Contact:

Once again, he's living with his mother in Japan, yet there is no field to indicate a country or the address or the phone number.

If you DO know where I can find the exact answers to the above questions in cold hard official print, please point them out to me and I'll eat my words. Otherwise, I'm looking for suggestions as to which values I should use, what I should leave blank, etc. based on your experiences with this.

Edited October 19, 2013 by CptSupermrkt

[NINA80 9]

I have searched high and low and simply cannot find the definitive 100% correct answers to these questions regarding DS-11 (application for U.S. passport):

#6 Email Address:

It's a newborn child, he doesn't have an e-mail address. Should I put mine? My wife's? There is a vague reference at the bottom of the 2nd page of instructions that implies that this field is OPTIONAL. But I can find no other such implications or statements that indicate which fields are required/optional.

#7 Primary Contact Phone Number:

It's a newborn child, he doesn't have a phone number. The phone number to get in contact with his mother is a Japanese phone number, yet there is no where on the form to indicate the country of the phone number. Should I put my U.S. phone number, even though I'm physically separated from the child?

#8: Mailing Address:

It's a newborn child. Do I put my address in the U.S., or do I put the address where the child is living (with his mother in Japan)? In the event of putting the mailing address of the child in Japan, there simply are not enough squares on the sheet to accommodate for a Japanese "state" (prefecture) and Japanese zip-code. What do I do? Scrunch the values in as best as possible? Provide the information on a separate sheet? I simply cannot find any official documentation on this whatsoever.

#17 Permanent Address:

He is living with his mother in Japan. The form does not have a field in this question to enter a country, and it appears to only be in the form of U.S. address. He is living in Japan for the foreseeable future, and does not have a permanent U.S. address.

#18 Emergency Contact:

Once again, he's living with his mother in Japan, yet there is no field to indicate a country or the address or the phone number.

If you DO know where I can find the exact answers to the above questions in cold hard official print, please point them out to me and I'll eat my words. Otherwise, I'm looking for suggestions as to which values I should use, what I should leave blank, etc. based on your experiences with this.

Why you are complicating things. If you and his mother are married just put your information or his mother information.

Hope somebody will give you a 100% answer .

[CptSupermrkt 1]

Why you are complicating things.

How is wanting to put the correct information "complicating things?" You clearly didn't read the entirety of my post: it is simply NOT POSSIBLE to fit the Japanese address which we want to use into the blocks available on the sheet, and I can find no instruction that says you can put the information on another sheet or that there is another form to use for the case of a foreign country. Japanese zip code is in the format of ###-#### yet the form only has room for #####. Not to mention the "state" field has TWO blocks (to represent two letter abbreviation for U.S. states), yet the Japanese equivalent is prefectures, which can't be abbreviated. Do I scrunch the extra numbers/state name in there beyond the blocks? Do I use an additional blank sheet of paper to correctly write it out?

Point is, it's ridiculously unclear, I can find no definitive "here's how you fill this form out" instruction sheet or sample, and the fact of the matter is that the embassy site says if you come with things incorrectly filled in, they're just going to turn you away and make you come back another day, which is something we want to avoid.

[girimurthy 5]

Has the child born here or in Japan? According to the us embassy website you need to take an appointment and take the child along for the same for the passport. You can fill those fields when you take the child for the appointment.

[BigDaddy28 228]

I have searched high and low and simply cannot find the definitive 100% correct answers to these questions regarding DS-11 (application for U.S. passport):

#6 Email Address:

It's a newborn child, he doesn't have an e-mail address. Should I put mine? My wife's? There is a vague reference at the bottom of the 2nd page of instructions that implies that this field is OPTIONAL. But I can find no other such implications or statements that indicate which fields are required/optional.

#7 Primary Contact Phone Number:

It's a newborn child, he doesn't have a phone number. The phone number to get in contact with his mother is a Japanese phone number, yet there is no where on the form to indicate the country of the phone number. Should I put my U.S. phone number, even though I'm physically separated from the child?

#8: Mailing Address:

It's a newborn child. Do I put my address in the U.S., or do I put the address where the child is living (with his mother in Japan)? In the event of putting the mailing address of the child in Japan, there simply are not enough squares on the sheet to accommodate for a Japanese "state" (prefecture) and Japanese zip-code. What do I do? Scrunch the values in as best as possible? Provide the information on a separate sheet? I simply cannot find any official documentation on this whatsoever.

#17 Permanent Address:

He is living with his mother in Japan. The form does not have a field in this question to enter a country, and it appears to only be in the form of U.S. address. He is living in Japan for the foreseeable future, and does not have a permanent U.S. address.

#18 Emergency Contact:

Once again, he's living with his mother in Japan, yet there is no field to indicate a country or the address or the phone number.

If you DO know where I can find the exact answers to the above questions in cold hard official print, please point them out to me and I'll eat my words. Otherwise, I'm looking for suggestions as to which values I should use, what I should leave blank, etc. based on your experiences with this.

I would suggest the same, unfortunatly we are clueless when it comes to addresses or stuff that are in Japanese language. I would tell you to go to the embassy and they will give you the exact address you want. For the address and phone numbers and email you can put yours or your wife's the department or the embassy will know that the applicant is a baby and some of the info is yours since you are the GUARDIAN of that baby. Good luck.