# San Francisco Passport Agency, San Francisco: a passport office in San Francisco (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-francisco/san-francisco-passport-agency-san-francisco-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 2 sources. Updated 2026-08-12. Owner review: not yet. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-francisco/san-francisco-passport-agency-san-francisco-ca ## Photos - ![Photo 1](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmspg94f0005tyem97rpy1ewq%2F0.jpg) - ![Photo 2](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmspg94f0005tyem97rpy1ewq%2F1.jpg) - ![Photo 3](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmspg94f0005tyem97rpy1ewq%2F2.jpg) - ![Photo 4](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmspg94f0005tyem97rpy1ewq%2F3.jpg) - ![Photo 5](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmspg94f0005tyem97rpy1ewq%2F4.jpg) ## In short San Francisco Passport Agency is a passport office. Its AI Score is 24 of 100, which is poor. Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like Gemini and ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page. ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Passport office | | Address | 450 Golden Gate Ave #3-2501, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA | | Hours | Mon to Wed 7:30 AM to 4 PM · Thu 9:30 AM to 4 PM · Fri 7:30 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sat to Sun | | Phone | (877) 487-2778 | | Owner | Nothing found | | Rating | 4.1 across 400 reviews on Google | | Known for | Nothing found | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Nothing found | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | September 18, 2026, 5:05 PM | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 450 Golden Gate Ave #3-2501, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 | | Location info | Description | You must pay with a credit card, debit card, or contactless payment such as Apple Pay, Google Pay, or Samsung Pay. We will not accept any other form of payment. To apply at this passport agency, you must make an appointment and meet the following requirements: --If you have not yet applied, make an appointment online (make sure you are on our .gov site). You must be traveling internationally within 14 calendar days. --If you have already applied, call 1-877-487-2778. You must be traveling internationally within 5 calendar days. --Be able to show printed proof of international travel. --Pay the $60 expedite fee in addition to the regular application fees. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Wed 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM · Thu 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM · Fri 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 | | Location info | Name | San Francisco Passport Agency | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 | | Location info | Phone | (877) 487-2778 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 | | Hours | Monday | 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 | | Hours | Tuesday | 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 | | Hours | Wednesday | 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 | | Hours | Thursday | 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 | | Hours | Friday | 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 | | Hours | Saturday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 | | Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 | | Services | Service | Child passport application | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Expedited passport application | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Lost or stolen passport replacement | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Passport renewal | AI guess | Nothing found | | Links | Website | https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/get-fast/passport-agencies/san-francisco.html | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 | ## Services and prices Services not read yet, back on Scan Day. ### Known for Reviews not read yet, back on Scan Day. ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting San Francisco Passport Address: 450 Golden Gate Ave #3-2501, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA. Phone: (877) 487-2778. Hours: Mon to Wed 7:30 AM to 4 PM · Thu 9:30 AM to 4 PM · Fri 7:30 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 11, 2026 at 7:08 PM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by San Francisco Passport on its Google Business Profile: "You must pay with a credit card, debit card, or contactless payment such as Apple Pay, Google Pay, or Samsung Pay. We will not accept any other form of payment. To apply at this passport agency, you must make an appointment and meet the following requirements: --If you have not yet applied, make an appointment online (make sure you are on our .gov site). You must be traveling internationally within 14 calendar days. --If you have already applied, call 1-877-487-2778. You must be traveling internationally within 5 calendar days. --Be able to show printed proof of international travel. --Pay the $60 expedite fee in addition to the regular application fees." ### When to go Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Cafe 450 | Cafe | 1 min walk | | Paradise Parking | Parking lot | 1 min walk | | California Parking (Public Parking) | Parking lot | 1 min walk | | Everytable | Restaurant | 2 min walk | | Golden Kim Tar | Chinese restaurant | 2 min walk | | Brisa | Restaurant | 2 min walk | ## Reputation 4.1 average across 400 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read August 11, 2026.) While many customers appreciate the same-day service and friendly staff, significant issues with wait times and security interactions detract from the overall experience. (AI guess, from 400 reviews.) ### What people like - Same-day passport service - Adorable passport photo cafe ### What people do not like - Long waits past appointment times - Unresponsive front desk - Aggressive security staff ### Press No press story about San Francisco Passport found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Directory listings not read yet. ## Recent updates from San Francisco Passport San Francisco Passport hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### anyone been on a Saturday, were they trading No answer yet ### services here, what do people go in for? No answer yet ### what time does San Francisco Passport actually open? No answer yet ### anything I should sort out before a first visit here? No answer yet ### ballpark before I book, what am I looking at No answer yet ### best local government office in San Francisco No answer yet ### address for San Francisco Passport, anyone have it? No answer yet ### Somewhere to park near San Francisco Passport? No answer yet ### budget options in San Francisco, what is decent No answer yet ### do I need to book this place or can I just turn up? No answer yet ### does San Francisco Passport ever have cancellations No answer yet ### Downsides nobody puts in a five star review? No answer yet ### last update from here was when? No answer yet ### is Travel Visa any better No answer yet ### the good stuff about San Francisco Passport, what is it? No answer yet ### anywhere on Golden Gate to sit while I wait No answer yet ### discounts for coming back, is that a thing No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about San Francisco Passport We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about San Francisco Passport. These are the answers that disagree with the record. ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 11, 2026. | Fact | What AI says | What the record says | | --- | --- | --- | | Address | ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 11, 2026: 100 Montgomery Street. | 450 Golden Gate Ave #3-2501, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA | ## The AI Score: 24 of 100 The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Francisco passport offices run 24 to 42. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. San Francisco Passport scores 24, below the San Francisco average of 33. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | San Francisco Passport | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 2 of 3 answers that recommended anyone. 1 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored. | | Reviews & response | 12 | 76 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 72 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Good | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | Not read yet | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | No reading has come back for this signal yet. | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | Not read yet | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | No reading has come back for this signal yet. | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology ## How AI decides what to tell you about a passport office When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on. That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today. The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place." ## How to choose a passport office in California, with or without AI A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating. - Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door. - Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake. - Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today. - Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes. - Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with California. ## How to read the marks on this page - Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry. - Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit. - AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it. ## About the author Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine. - Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping. - Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing. - Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including San Francisco Passport if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source. ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to San Francisco Passport | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | San Francisco Passport Agency | LocalBusiness | #business | https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/get-fast/passport-agencies/san-francisco.html | Subject of this page | | San Francisco, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City San Francisco Passport is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the passport offices in San Francisco, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best passport offices in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco/passport-office - Best businesses in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco ### Nearby - /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles - /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose - /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego - /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine - /fresno: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/fresno - /palo-alto: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/palo-alto ### Every list - Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca ## Frequently asked questions ### What is AI search optimization for local business? Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it. ### What is Local AI Registry? The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free. ### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI? Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next. ### Who writes the answers here? Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so. ### I own San Francisco Passport Agency. How do I fix something or rank higher? Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work. ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJU2gsRnyAhYAR74kr1AsK7oo (accessed Aug 11, 2026) - [2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 11, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 18, 2026)