Hi all, thanks in advance for any insight you can offer. I'll start with what I think is the most important question for our situation, and then I'll provide a summary of our situation.

Question: Does the urgent travel passport request (the one where you have international travel in 14 days and you're lucky enough to get an appt) provide you with a standard, full validity passport? I see that many countries (including Indonesia) do not accept an "emergency passport" but that's not what you'd receive if you successfully apply for an urgent travel passport, correct?

Situation: We have a short trip to Indonesia that will occur when my son's passport has just 5 months of validity left. Indonesia requires 6 months. Starting today and until that trip to Indonesia, we will be mostly on the move, traveling to China, Macau, Singapore, UK, 5 weeks in the US, and then the travel to Indonesia. It's frustrating because there's a decent amount of time to do something about it if there was an option, but it doesn't seem like we have any real options. Passports issued in short turnaround time from overseas embassies (HK, Singapore, UK) I believe are emergency passports that would not be accepted for travel to Indonesia. Really, getting his application in the US is the only possibility, yet we can't start that process until we arrive in the US (since we must apply in person) and then the 5 week time period is not long enough. It seems like our only possibility will be the urgent travel appointment inside the 14-day window before travel. 1) that seems very risky to wait til then but what can we do? and 2) I'm not sure if that would help. Is the passport issued in such a scenario a fully valid passport and not an "emergency passport?" Logic suggests that it would be since it's designed for Americans traveling abroad (unlike an emergency passport which might be for Americans abroad to return to the states) but I don't want to assume anything.

Thanks for any insight and if there's any other possibility I've overlooked. Thanks!