I have been in Italy since June. I have an Italian and a USA passport. As a dual citizen I have an Italian ID card so I don't need to carry a passport for ID. They just stay in my drawer. Something came up where I have to spend November in India. The Indian consulate website in Milan says you must apply for a visa on line. It takes 8-10 days during peak season (spring) and 4-5 days in iff periods (Monsoon season, now).

The Indian consulate has out-sourced the visa process to an Italian company. After 10 days if not hearing anything I started calling but they never answer the phone. Finally they answered an email after several days. They said while you have to fill out the form on line, you have to print it and take it to the office. Nowhere does it say that on their website. I went there with all required documents, including both passports which they took copies of. Both passports numbers are also on the application. I paid 185 euros, bought a plane ticket for Milan to Delhi, Delhi to Sacramento.

On the train back from Milan to Torino I received an email from them saying that since I don't have an Italian passport, they'll never process my visit before my flight on 10/30. I wrote back, I have a passport, i showed it it to you. Do you want me to email a copy? They said copies won't do. They have to see the original. I said I was in your office earlier today and showed you my original Italian passport. They haven't answered since.

Today I took off work to go from Torino to the Indian consulate in
Milan. But I couldn't find either my Italian or USA passport in my drawer! I've turned the apartment upside down. They must have fallen out of my laptop case on the train back. No one else has been in the apartment except for five firemen responding to a false alarm on Saturday, and I don't know why they'd flinch a passport. Now I have to go to the police station in Torino to "denounce" both passports. Then go to the US and Indian consulates to get new, emergency ones, which I'm not sure india will accept, even if I get a visa from them.

I'm also wondering how a new USA passport with a new picture is going to affect my Global Entry.

Has anyone had a problem getting a visa on a brand new passport? Does a new passport affect Global entry? If I can't get out on 10/30 I'll lose thousands in plane tickets and one month rent on an apartment in India. Thoughts? Or am I just out of luck?