The department of state has requested comments on new forms for applying for a passport. Comments are due by 25 April i.e Monday. You can find all FIVE pages of it here (thanks papers please).
It looks like they cribbed generously from the application for a security clearance. Questions include every address you ever had, every job you ever worked (including supervisors names), every school you ever attended, and a whole bunch of family details..(shakes head, more below the fold)
update: Further digging says that ~1% of all applicants will be filling this out. So its for when they don't like the documents you supply with your initial application. Still a lot of info to come up with if you happen to have been born in the cab on the way to the hospital...
Thanks to andgarden for digging this up, you can make official comments here.
Family details are interesting: Names, places of birth, date of birth, and US citizenship of your parents, any step-parents, all your siblings, and any children..
One of the more interesting entries is if you weren't "Born in a medical facility". If that is true, they have a block of questions that would make a birther proud. They want the address of your mother 1 year before your birth!, at your birth, and one year afterward. Her employer, its address, and dates of her employment. If she received pre or postnatal care, the places and dates of appointments. The name, address and phone numbers of the doctor, and anyone else that was present at the birth. The circumstances of your mothers entry into the US.
The cherry on top:
Was there any religious or institutional recording of your birth or event occurring around the time of your birth (Example: Baptism, Circumcision, Confirmation or other religious ceremony. Please provide details including the name, location of the institution, and date)
The real departure from reality can be found in the paperwork reduction act statement.
Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 45 minutes[emphasis mine] per response, including the time for searching existing data sources, gathering necessary data, providing the information and/or documents required, and reviewing the final collection.
It is not clear if everyone applying for a passport (or renewing an existing one) will have to fill out the whole thing. The form was recently changed, the new one Application as of Dec 2010 has a number of questions that weren't there when I last renewed about a year ago (some that I don't know the answer to). Interestingly, this much shorter (only two pages) form has a Paperwork Act time estimate of 85 minutes to complete.