Passport and PIO Card for your baby.
We recently had to go through this whole exercise and were surprised to find out that there are no resources on the net explaining some of the confusing aspects. Here is the process (This assumes that your's is a "normal" case - you and your spouse is Indian-born, Indian Citizens, holding Indian Passports, living in USA on H-1 or Green Card and this Passport and PIO card is for your new born baby). Passport: We thought that this is a very straight forward process and mostly it is, except for the passport photos. The USPS web site indicates that most of the post offices have facilities to make your passport photograph, but when we went to our local post office, they told us that they no longer offer this service for infants!. They said that it is because the pictures they take for infants are not coming out well. We went to CVS Pharmacy and got ours. So, it is a good idea to inquire ahead of time whether a certain place offers this service. The travel.gov web site has wel...