Cal State Long Beach may be becoming a one-stop shop.
CSULB opened the U.S. Passport Application Acceptance Office in Brotman Hall on Thursday, offering students, faculty and staff the opportunity to conveniently get papers to cross international borders.
“A passport is the key to exploring the world and to becoming ‘globally capable,’ and I want our students to have that key and the opportunities that will certainly follow,” said Douglas Robinson, vice president of student services.
“I hadn’t even heard of it,” Mikella Etchegoyen, a freshman creative writing major, said. “But it would probably be easier having it on campus.”
Members of the CSULB community can make an appointment for U.S. passport renewal, expedited processing and passport changes. Passport photos can be taken in the office and cost $15.
The office also handles individuals who have lost their personal information or had it stolen.
According to Robinson, CSULB first considered offering passport services over 10 years ago. “I allowed myself to be talked out of implementing the program back in the early 1990s,” he said.
What place charges $50 for photos?? Walgreens and Longs charge $8 each for two photos, and they’re pretty much everywhere (there’s two within two miles of each other near my place). Even then, my mom devised a way to make them even cheaper – take a picture with her camera and then crop that to 2 by 2 inches. Costs 19 cents and the US government accepted it.