If you lose your valid passport and need one in an emergency how do you get a replacement fast?

http://www.americanpassport.com/?gclid=CJuzopPdqYkCFSNQYwodanNeUQ offers same day passport replacement service as well as other expediated service such as a week or two weeks. They can get expensive though but they come through. If it is a US passport you are looking to replace.

1. Stop panicking

2. Start thinking straight

3. Make sure you know what country you claim to be a citizen of and claim to have had a passport from (you haven't told us)

4. Make sure you know what country you're in (you haven't told us)

5. Define why you need a passport (you haven't told us what the "emergency" is)

6. Define how quickly you need a passport (you haven't told us HOW quickly you need it

7. Get another birth certificate if you're within reach of your place of birth. In fact, TWO copies if you're wise, and keep them in two different places!

8. Get someone to check all your communications with regard to attempting to get this mess sorted out. It can take for ever if people can't understand exactly what you're wanting and what you're meaning.

How to Get Your Passport in a Hurry

Expedited Service

* Cost, in addition to regular application fees, is $60 per application plus overnight delivery costs.
* Two-way overnight delivery is strongly suggested.
* If you mail in - clearly mark Expedited on the envelope.
* Anyone may request expedited service for any type of application (e.g., first-time applications, renewals, amendments of existing passports, etc.) See:
o How do I change my name on my passport?
o How to add extra visa pages to my passport?
o How do I apply to renew my passport?
* Passport applications sent together or at the same time do not necessarily remain together.
* Passports will be mailed separately.

After you apply - You will receive your passport:Ordinarily, if you paid additionally for expedited service and two-way overnight delivery within about 2 weeks

Routine Service

* Include your departure date on your application.

After you apply - You will receive your passport: Ordinarily, within 6 weeks. However, processing times can vary depending on workload and occasional unforeseen circumstances such as natural disasters. During busier times, such as the summer travel season, we encourage customers to expedite their applications if traveling in less than 8 weeks.

Life or Death Emergencies

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Call The National Passport Information Center






Payment Method

Passport Agency


* Major Credit Card - Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover
* Debit/Check cards (not ATM cards)
* Checks, bank drafts, money orders

Mail-in


* Personal Check or Money Order (Pay to "U.S. Department of State")
* NO CASH

Post Office, Clerk of Court, Other Location


* Check with the facility for type of payment accepted.

All Passport Agencies accept applications only by appointment. Click here for more information.

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If you're still in the states you have to get another copy of your birth certificate from the town hall in which you were born...then take it to the place where you got your passport in the first place. You'll have to go through the whole thing again (pictures and everything). You should be able to get it within 24 hours, but you'll have to pay quite a bit of money to get it that fast.


If you're out of the country you have to do the samr thing, but you have to do it through the embassy...they'll help alot, but someone from home has to be able to send your birth certificate through a fax. A copy of your passport will help (if you had one made (just a photocopy) before you left on your trip)...even just having your passport number will make things a bit easier.

Without knowing what country you are from and what citizenship you hold it is not possible to answer accurately.
Generally speaking you need 1. proof of citizenship
2. 2 passport size photos, 1 signed by an appropriate guarantor
3.certified cheque made out as directed on the application
4.completed application
If this is an emergency you can usually get a passport in 48 hours
with the above 1-4 plus an airline ticket or possibly just the itinerary although the cost is higher.
You apply at your local passport office.

If you ae a US citizen you need to give all theinformation to National Passport Information Center and they will give passport with in 3 days. Click on this link www.youtravel.state.gov/passport/about_contact_npic.html

www.travel.state.gov then click on passports, it'll tell you what you need to know.

it takes some time. Follow this link---

http://travel.state.gov/passport/lost/us/us_848.html

your best bet is the local immigration office.

that's why we have embassies overseas, so go in one and they'll organize that for ya, whereas at home, it's a lot easier.

the embassy of that country

You might try looking on a search engine, but be sure to make sure the site you are looking for the answer in is your state. Every state law is different when it comes to that.

you need to ask assoistole