Renewing kids passports

[tennisgal]

Anyone renew their kids passports recently?  Both of my kids have current, unexpired passports, however they are set to expire this spring.  I have an appt in a few weeks at the passport office for renewal.   Both MH and I are going with them and plan to get the pics done there at that office.  It is unclear to me if I need more than their current passports as documentation.  Does anyone know? 

Here is the link from federal website   travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-passport/under-16.html

Steps 3&4 are what's making me confused.  It's making me think that I need to have birth certificates and also photocopies of the passports?

[abs]

You have to treat kids passports like they are brand new applications. We just did this and the whole process was very easy and fast.

[cherry1111]

Yes to the birth certificate. They will take it and send it with the application.

[VillainV]

You can’t renew a kid’s passport. It’s basically just like getting a new one every time. And they only last 5 years.

[Jalapeñomel]

We both had to be at the appointment…not sure if that’s normal or not.

Edit: clearly I didn’t read the op very well. Lol

[goldengirlz]

Yes, you need both a birth certificate and the old passport. And yes, both parents need to be there when you submit the application.

The new passports are pretty cool! They’ve been redesigned recently.

[pinkplasticdoll]

We just did this yesterday. We brought the old passport and birth certificate, they sent both of them off for the "renewal" which is really just a new application.