Help! Lost passport
Oct 18, 2016, 2:29 am
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Help! Lost passport
Hi
I have a flight booked to Portugal on Thursday and I've lost my passport. The passport office can only do 1 day passports for expireds. They've booked me in for Weds morning on a 1 week passport and said that I can just ask at the time if they can do it quicker.
Does anyone here have any ideas? I'm clutching at straws here. Is there any way to get there on a driver's license?
Thanks
Jack
I have a flight booked to Portugal on Thursday and I've lost my passport. The passport office can only do 1 day passports for expireds. They've booked me in for Weds morning on a 1 week passport and said that I can just ask at the time if they can do it quicker.
Does anyone here have any ideas? I'm clutching at straws here. Is there any way to get there on a driver's license?
Thanks
Jack
Oct 18, 2016, 2:36 am
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Hi
I have a flight booked to Portugal on Thursday and I've lost my passport. The passport office can only do 1 day passports for expireds. They've booked me in for Weds morning on a 1 week passport and said that I can just ask at the time if they can do it quicker.
Does anyone here have any ideas? I'm clutching at straws here. Is there any way to get there on a driver's license?
Thanks
Jack
I have a flight booked to Portugal on Thursday and I've lost my passport. The passport office can only do 1 day passports for expireds. They've booked me in for Weds morning on a 1 week passport and said that I can just ask at the time if they can do it quicker.
Does anyone here have any ideas? I'm clutching at straws here. Is there any way to get there on a driver's license?
Thanks
Jack
Oct 18, 2016, 3:02 am
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Hi
I have a flight booked to Portugal on Thursday and I've lost my passport. The passport office can only do 1 day passports for expireds. They've booked me in for Weds morning on a 1 week passport and said that I can just ask at the time if they can do it quicker.
Does anyone here have any ideas? I'm clutching at straws here. Is there any way to get there on a driver's license?
Thanks
Jack
I have a flight booked to Portugal on Thursday and I've lost my passport. The passport office can only do 1 day passports for expireds. They've booked me in for Weds morning on a 1 week passport and said that I can just ask at the time if they can do it quicker.
Does anyone here have any ideas? I'm clutching at straws here. Is there any way to get there on a driver's license?
Thanks
Jack
Oct 18, 2016, 4:47 am
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There are services that can get this done faster. I used this company when I had 2 international trips less then 7 days apart, and I had filled up my other passport. Not the cheapest way to do things, but they got it done.
http://www.thepassportguys.com/
http://www.thepassportguys.com/
Oct 18, 2016, 4:51 am
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Depends on the passport issuing country. Some countries cover the process from start to finish and you aren't even allowed to bring your own photo.
Edit: From the infos he has so far shared in other topics, I gather that OP lives in London (?). If, by any chance, you're British, there's no need for a passport to travel within the European Union. A national ID should be sufficient.
Edit: From the infos he has so far shared in other topics, I gather that OP lives in London (?). If, by any chance, you're British, there's no need for a passport to travel within the European Union. A national ID should be sufficient.
Last edited by WorldLux; Oct 18, 2016 at 4:57 am
Oct 18, 2016, 6:46 am
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A driver's license however does *not* suffice unless it lists your nationality (which most don't.)
Oct 18, 2016, 9:08 am
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Depends on the passport issuing country. Some countries cover the process from start to finish and you aren't even allowed to bring your own photo.
Edit: From the infos he has so far shared in other topics, I gather that OP lives in London (?). If, by any chance, you're British, there's no need for a passport to travel within the European Union. A national ID should be sufficient.
Edit: From the infos he has so far shared in other topics, I gather that OP lives in London (?). If, by any chance, you're British, there's no need for a passport to travel within the European Union. A national ID should be sufficient.
Oct 18, 2016, 9:41 am
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I only checked the website of the Council of the EU, which lists an identification card for the UK. Didn't pay attention to the fact, that those have been scrapped a while ago.
Oct 19, 2016, 2:39 am
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If you were born in the UK you may use a drivers license to travel to the Republic of Ireland, for any other destination in the EU you need to have a passport.
Oct 19, 2016, 2:59 am
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Not everyone born in the U.K. is a citizen of the U.K., Ireland, and/or an EU country. Have to keep that in mind when speaking of the right to travel internationally within the Ireland-UK CTA.
Oct 19, 2016, 3:59 am
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Any further speculation is pointless until OP confirms his citizenship.
Oct 20, 2016, 6:42 am
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Assuming you're a US citizen, go to the passport office in the early AM without an appointment and explain the situation and show proof of your immediate travel. They should sort you out.
Oct 20, 2016, 8:02 am
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If you are talking about a US passport and are close a Department of State Passport Agency, you can MAKE AN APPOINTMENT, then go in person. You will have to pay the expediated fee, have proof of international travel within 2 weeks but they can make you a passport same day. As long as you can get an appointment. Even if you can't you can go there and wait, its not written anywhere, but they may take you without an appointment.
See: https://travel.state.gov/content/pas...expedited.html
See: https://travel.state.gov/content/pas...expedited.html
Oct 20, 2016, 3:27 pm
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I would say UK for the OP, what with their user name and references to "booked".
Oct 21, 2016, 5:35 am
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...not so sure. He then s/would have said driving licence, not driver's license.