Traveling abroad for business, tourism or honeymoon is often lots of fun and a great experience for many indians. Sometimes it can be a nightmare, if your bags are stolen and with that your passport is gone.

Indians have to be careful when traveling in Europe, in countries such as Spain, Italy etc. and keep an eye out for pick pockets and tourist scams.

If you lose your indian passport abroad in a foreign country, you are stuck there without your identification documents leading to lots of hassles, expenses, sleepless nights. Dont panic! Here is what you need to do. The procedure is the same if your passport is stolen.

1. Go to nearest police station

Go to the nearest police station where you are, file a police report (tell them where you lost your passport), they will give you a copy of police report in about 30 minutes. Dont be afraid to go to the police station. Police report is one of most important documents you must have in hand proving your the loss/theft of your passport along with other valuables.

2. Call the Indian embassy

Call the indian embassy at the emergency lines and let them know your about your passport loss, They are there to help you. Here is a complete list or google the embassy website.

Indian Missions / Posts Emergency Telephone Numbers for Consular Related Grievances

http://www.mea.gov.in/indian-missions-abroad.htm

Name of Country Missions Name Telephone/Mobile Number Afghanistan Kabul Mob: +93 705127830

Tel: + 93 20 2200185 Herat 00-93-40-221145 Jalalabad 0093-782507287 Kandahar 00-873-0705509663 00-873-0700320746 Mazar-e-Sharif Mob: +93-702020268

Tel (Off.): +93-(50)-2047242 Algeria Algiers 00-213-661-483-374 Angola, Equatorial Guinea & Sao Tome & Principe Luanda 00-244-222371060

00-244-222371089 Argentina, Paraguay, Oriental Republic of Uruguay Buenos Aires Off.: 4328-9141 ; 4393-4001(fax)

Res.: 4328-1371

Mob: 15-3578-9655-Emergency number Armenia, Georgia Yerevan Mob: 00-374-55009115

Tel (Res):00-374-10-566165Mob: 00-374-91382746Mob. No. 00-374-091308617 Austria Vienna

Montenegro Tel (Off.): 0043 1 5850793 29

Tel (Res): 0043 1 7986745

Mob : 0043 6606366648Tel (Off.): 0043 1 5850793 46

Tel(Res): 0043 1 5441539

Mob : 0043 68860649043 Australia Canberra +61-432585493. Melbourne +61-430020828 Sydney +612 9223 2702

+61420 277 261 Perth 0061-0412185517 Azerbaijan Baku +994 50 2300422 (Cell) +994 50 2300424 (Cell) Bahrain Bahrain 0097317714209 (office)

0097339415772 (Mob)0097317180529( Office)

0097334317898( Mob) Belarus Minsk Tel (Off.): 00-375-17-2621546

Mob: 00-375-44-7712015 Bangladesh Dhaka Tel Off – 0088-02-9888789-91

Mob : 0088-1937400591 Chittagong 880-31-654148 Rajshahi 00-880-721-861213 Belgium, Luxembourg Brussels Off: 0032-2645-1865 Emergency:0032-2646-6872

(after office hours)

Mob :0032-0476-748- 575 Bhutan Thimphu 009752-322161

00975-17114209 Phuentsholing 00-975-5-252101

00-975-5-252101 Botswana Gaborone +267-71366117 +267-71328359 Brazil Brasilia Direct line : Chancery :5561- 32484006

Fax: 5561-32487849Mob: 5561-81572157-Mob: 5561-82542019 Sao Paulo +00-55-11-994518224 Brunei Darussalam +673-7193064 Bulgaria, Macedonia Sofia 00359-888990985. Cambodia Phnom Penh +855-23-210912

+855-23-210913

Mob : +85512-811202 Canada Ottawa 00-1-613-744-3753 Toronto Mob : 647-241-5729 Vancouver Tel (Off.) :+1 604 681 0003 001 604 561 0874 Chile Santiago Tel (Off.): 00-56-2-22635817

Tel (Res.):00-56-2-27918027

Mob :00-56-9-81393990 China Beijing Tel (Off.) 0086-10-8531-2512

Mob: 0086-18612083607 Guangzhou Tel (Off.) :+86-20-85501509

Mob: +86-18588885692 Hong Kong +852 90771083 Shanghai 00-86-189-6477-6513 Colombia, Ecuador Bogota Mob: 00-57-313-4751638 Congo (Dem. Rep.), with Congo, Gabon & Central African Republic Kinshasa Tel : +243-971000493

+243-971000490/91/92

Mob: +243-817119904Tel : +243-971000490/91/92

Mob: +243-817119908 Cote d’Ivore, Liberia, Guinea & Sierra Leone Abidjan. +225 04003397 Croatia Zagreb 00-385-1-4873239-41 Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti Havana + 53 52862736) Cyprus Nicosia 00-357-99613791 Czech Republic Prague Mob : +420 733 640 703 Denmark Copenhagen Tel :+45 39 10 86 29

Mob: +45 61 59 88 16 Egypt Cairo +20 128 347 1112 +20 127 499 8894 Ethiopia, Djibouti Addis Ababa Tel. (Off) : +251-111260883

Mob: +251-929907271 Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu & Cook Islands, Kiribati, Nauru and Vanuatu Suva +679 – 9921474 Finland, Estonia Helsinki 358-9-22899115

358-442174032 France, Monaco Paris (During Office Hours)

014050508401405050880140505087(After Office Hours)

069828707101405051030140505104 Saint Denis +262 693 709097 Germany Berlin 015112561532 015114209386 01704515167 Frankfurt 0049-69-15300556 Hamburg 00-49-15116160030 Munich Office +49 89 21023950

Tel (Res.): +4989 45027973

Mob:+49 l71 2885973 Ghana, Burkino Faso, Togo Accra 00233 -(0)-263135416, Greece Athens + 30 6936103443 Guatemala 00502 2368 2974

00502 2368 3230 Guyana, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, St. Kitts & Nevis Georgetown +592 684 9088

+592 226 5337 Hungary, Bosnia & Herzegovina Budapest +36-30-4208989 +36-30-519-9944 +3630-8644595 Iceland Reykjavik 00354 5349955 00354 618 1455 00354 841 7870 Indonesia, Timor Leste, East Timor Jakarta 0062-21-5204150 Medan +62-61-4531308 +62-61-4556452 Bali Tel : (+62-361) 259 507

Mob: (+62) 811 386 7270Tel : (+62-361) 259 504

Mob: (+62) 811 386 7274 Iran Tehran Attended 24 hours for all purpose.

0098-21-88755103-5 -For Consular Affairs :

0098-21-88529313For Administrative Affairs

0098-21-88744571 Bandar Abbas 0098-7633661746 0098-7633661746 Zahidan 0098-54-33222337

0098-54-33221740

0098-9155439827 Iraq Baghdad 00964 770 4444899 Ireland Dublin 00-353-871478543 Israel Tel Aviv 00-972-3-5226748 Italy, San Marino

Italy Rome 0039-3316142085 Milan 00393881612070 Jamaica, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Turks & Caicos Islands Kingston 1-876-2798003 Japan, Marshall Islands Tokyo, Marshall Islands 00 81-3-3262 2397 Osaka-Kobe 00 81-7 8855 8375 00 81-80 2524 1797 Jordan Amman 00962778333778 Mob: 00-962-776333412 Mob: 00-962-776333712 Kazakhstan Astana 7 701 2207607 Almaty 701 2207608 Kenya, Eritrea, Somalia Nairobi +254 710880745 Mombasa Tel: 00254 41 2311051

00254 41 2224433Mob: 00254 731684377 Korea (DPR) Pyongyang +850-2- 381-7215 (IDD) – Office382-7526 (Local) – Office Cell: +850- 1912500376 Korea (Republic of) Seoul 00-82-10-9356-4188 Kuwait Safat 00965-22530600 Kyrgyzstan Bishkek +996 312?979258 Lao PDR Vientiane +856 21 352299

+856 20 55555902+856 21 315900

+856 20 55529177 Lebanon Beirut 961-76860128 Libya, Malta Tripoli 00216 75750248

00216 53045672

00218 21340928800216 75750248

00218 213409289

00218 94544032 Malta 00356 79798081 Madagascar, Comoros Antananarivo 0331513131 Malawi Lilongwe Tel (Off.) : +265 1750014

Mob : +265 994965965

Tel (Res.): +265 1759938Tel (Off.): +265 1755337

Mob: +265 995655445

Tel (Res.): +265 1750081 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur 0102550612

00-60-102550612 Maldives Male +960-3324-857 Mali Bamako Tel (Off):

(00 223) 20 23 54 20 /(00 223) 20 23 54 21

Mob. : 00 223 719 189 10 / 00 223 764 092 58 Mauritius Port Louis (00230) 58881266Mob: +230-52510582

Tel (Off.) +230-2111393

Tel (Res.):+230-4669617 Mexico Mexico 00 52 55 52034803(office)

00 52 55 52543841 (Res)

00 52 55 41401681 (Mob) Morocco Rabat (+212) 6 61 18 31 95 Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Tel: +976-11-453075

Mob: +976-99908547 Mozambique, Swaziland Maputo + 258-823329538 Myanmar Yangon Tel: 0095-2-80355/81019

Fax: 0095 2 77890

Mob: 0095 9 2054490 Mandalay Mob-0095-9-2054490,

Tel-0095-2-80355/81019 Namibia Windhoek Mob:.00264 811225974

Tel:00264 61-258108/226036Mob: 00264 8111424257

Tel : 00264 61 243316 Nepal Kathmandu Tel : 00977-1-4423702

Mob : 00977-1-9851107021 Biratngar 00977-9852024958 00977-9852026267 Birgunj Tel: 00977-51-533714

Mob: 00977-9855022809 Netherlands The Hague +31-703106310 New Zealand, Samoa, Nauru, Kiribati Wellington 00-64-21539817 Niger Niamey Tel (Direct): +227-20370109

Tel (Chancery): +227-20370029/30

Mob : +227-99759975 Nigeria, Benin, Chad, Cameroon Abuja +234 9021396918 Office of the High Commission of India, Lagos Tel: +23414480878

Mob: +2348128308751 Norway Oslo Office: +47-2411-5926

Residence:+47-2255-0519

Mobile:+47-9501-3915 Oman Muscat 00 -968 -2469 5981

00 -968 -8007 1234 Pakistan Islamabad Tel : 0092-51-2823363

Mob: 0092-3028514548

Fax: 0092-51-2823102

0092-51-2823386Tel: 0092-51-2828379

Mob: 0092-3028569733

Fax: 0092-51-2823102

0092-51-2823386 Palestine Ramallah +972-2-2903033 Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua Mob: 00 507 62120635 Mob: 00 507 62721640

Tel: 00 507 2691163 Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu & Solomon Islands Port Moresby Tel :00 675 321 4291

00 675 321 0528Mob: 00 675 71417448 Peru, Bolivia Lima Off : +511 2616006 and +511 460 2289 (Landlines)

Mob : +51 98926 8080 / +51 98928 6464 / +51 98928 8899 Philippines, Palau, Micronesia Manila 63 – 9477836524 Poland, Lithuania Warsaw +48-606700105 Portugal Lisbon +351-916653752 Qatar Doha 00974 -44255725 / 44255711 Mob: 00974-33872462 00974-44255714 , Mob: 00974-33451607 Romania, Albania, Moldova Bucharest +40 21210 93 30 +40.21.210.93.29 Russian Federation Moscow +7 926 808 4929 St. Petersburg Tel : +7812 6407215

Mob :+79117776948Tel : +78126407216

Mob : +79111928458Tel : +7812 6407215

Mob :+79811359740 Vladivostok +74232413920 +79146750807

+79146750809 Saudi Arabia Riyadh 00-966-11-4884697 & 4881982

8002471234 (Toll Free No.for use within Saudi Arabia only) Jeddah 00966-12-6648660 (for death related cases)

00966-556122301 Serbia Belgrade 0038-11-2666520 Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde. Dakar 221- 775295091 Seychelles Victoria 00248-2815080 Singapore Singapore 0065 62382538. Slovak Republic Bratislava 00421-2-52631374

00421-2-52962916

00421-915876226 Slovenia Republic Ljubljana 00-386-30412272. South Africa, Lesotho Pretoria 079 528 2742 Cape Town 078 099 2020 Durban Mob : 0027 83 463 7100 Mob : 0027 83 776 7024 Mob: 0027 83 776 7023 Johannesburg 27 716764230 Spain, Andorra http://www.embassyindia.es/ Madrid 0034-913503095

0034-648583243 Sri Lanka Colombo 00-94-11-2472684 Kandy Mob:0094 0715313088

Tel : 0094-81-2223777 Jaffna Mob :00 94 777902785

Tel (Off.) :00 94 21 2220501Mob : 00 94 777800201

Tel (Off.) :0094 21 2219672 Hambantota Mob : +94-756202431

Tel (Res): +94-47 2222608

00-94-47-2222500/503Mob: +94-0773868443

Tel (Res.): +94-47 2222601

Tel (Off.) : +94-2222500 Sudan Khartoum 00-249-922458098 249 1 8357 4001/2/3/4 Sudan (South) Juba +211 922000188 Suriname, Barbados, St.Lucia, St. Vincent & Grenadines Paramaribo 00 597 498 344 extension 105 (Office)

442 245 (Residence)

Mobile: 00 597 723 0004 Sweden, Latvia https://www.indianembassy.se/ Stockholm 0046-768982760 Switzerland, Holy See and Liechtenstein http://indembassybern.ch/ Berne +41-31-3680680

+41-796533356 (mob) Geneva (0041-22-7311214 & 0041-789047945 Syria Damascus Mob: 00963-933-242506 Mob: 00963-930-188813 Tajikistan Dushanbe 992-37-2211186

992-935710263

992-372275631 Tanzania Dar es Salaam +255 783 344 840

+255 783 344 850 Zanzibar Mob: + 255 774704900

Tel (Res.): + 255 24 2235259 Thailand Bangkok +66-618819218 Chiangmai Mob: +66-812876117 Trinidad & Tobago, Grenada, Dominica, Monteserrat Port of Spain +1-868-2913099

+1-868-6212461+1-868-6241874 Tunisia Tunis +216-71787819 / 71790968

Extention : 104Mob.: 00216-98313170 Turkey Ankara Tel (Off.): 0090-312-440 8259

Tel (Res.):0090-312-439 8056 (Res)

Mob: 0090-5303 142 203Tel (Off.): 0090-312-438 5371

Tel (Res.):0090-312-442 2619

Mob:0090-5303 142 205 Istanbul 90 212 2910942 Turkmenistan Ashgabat +993-63806622 Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda Kampala +256-414257368

+256-41-4344631

+256-41-4342994+256-759207102+256-759207100 U.A.E. Abu Dhabi +971 508120445 Dubai +971 50 734 7676 (For death related matters) +971 50 455 9594 (four housemaid/shelter cases) 800 46342 (Toll free No. at Indian Workers Resource Centre, Dubai) UK London 0044 207632 3035 Birmingham 0044 121 2123217 Edinburgh 00-44-131-2292144

0044-7980434240 Ukraine Kyiv 00380-44-4686219

00-380-933559957 U.S.A Washington 001202-9397000 https://www.indianembassy.org/ Chicago (+1) 312 595 0420

(+1) 312 753 8530 Houston +1-832-283-1568 New York 9176783071 +1-646-339-5258 +1-718-844-1715 San Francisco 001-415-802-5022 Atlanta 00-1-404-941-7528. Uzbekistan Tashkent +998-71-140-0983;

+998-71-140-0997;

+998-71-140-0992. Venezuela, Aruba, Caracao, St. Maarten Caracas 0058-2122857887. Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City Tel : 0084-8-38237050,

Extention -14

Mob : 0084-917180776 Hanoi 00 84 914991424 00 84 1296245328 Yemen Sana’a 0967 734 000 657 Zambia Lusaka Tel (Off.) :+260-211253066

Mob : +260-978777048 Zimbabwe Harare Tel: +263-4-795955

Mob: +263-772125327Tel: +263-4-795956

Mob: +263-772155162)

3. Apply for duplicate passport

The indian embassy/consulate will help you apply for duplicate passport, most likely you will need to apply in person. It should take about 7 days minimum to get your passport (sometimes more depends on the embassy), as the passports are printed in India and had to come back. Hand written passports are phased outs. Prepare your hotel bookings accordingly.

Passport application form duly filled in online (online not the downloadable one) at http://passport.gov.in/nri/OnlineRegistration.jsp?pocode=ESPM then saved, printed and completed in all respects, duly signed including affixing of photo as per specifications given in the link Guidelines for photographs and Sample Photographs,

Copy of Police Report regarding loss of passport

Copy of Lost Passport (front & back pages)

Copy of Visa & Air tickets

Personal application citing reasons for immediate issue of Duplicate Passport

Pay the passport fee

Collect the passport at the embassy.

4. Get your lost visas back

If you have had any previous visas also lost with the passport, then you can get them back by contacting the respective embassy of the foreign country that issued your visa. For example, if you have had french visa, call the french consulate where you are and notify them. It will take a couple of days for them to issue you

They will probably require your scans of old visa, new passport and police report. They cannot affix visa without your new indian passport. If you hold a residence permit, they will give you a statement which many airlines accept allowing your onward journey.

5. Claim your insurance

If you have travel insurance cover, you will be covered for loss of passport. Contact the insurance company

Loss of Passport Claim Procedure

The list of documents required to be attached with the claim are as follows:

Duly Signed Claim Form stating exact circumstances of loss

Copy of FIR (first information report)/Police Report.

Receipts related to expenses incurred to obtain a new passport

NEFT form and Pre Printed Cancelled cheque stating insured’s / Claimant Indian Bank account details

Passport and visa copy with Entry Stamp Overseas and exit Stamp from India if applicable

It is generally a good idea to keep scans of your passport, visas in your email or dropbox before you travel abroad. Providing copies of these will help to speed up the processing time for duplicate passport.

FAQs – Lost/Damaged Passports

What is the definition of damaged passport? Damaged passport is classified further based on the extent of damage, i.e.: Damaged Passport – Passport number is readable, name is legible and photo is intact Damaged beyond recognition What can I do if I have lost my passport and have to travel to India urgently due to an emergency like serious illness or death in the family? If you have lost your passport during traveling, then you can come to India on the basis of “Emergency Certificate”. For the issuance of “Emergency Certificate”, you need to contact the respective mission/post of that country. What are my responsibilities when applying for a passport, if my old passport has been lost or damaged? Loss of passport should be immediately reported to the nearest Police Station and to the Passport Office (PO) or Indian Mission, if abroad. Also apply for “Re-issue” of passport at your nearest Passport Seva Kendra (PSK) and submit the required documents along with your passport application form.

To check the list of documents, please click click on “Documents Required” link on Home page. What is the procedure to apply for duplicate passport in case of lost or damaged passport? To apply for duplicate passport in case of lost or damaged passport, you need to apply for “Re-issue” of passport. I am an Indian living in Germany. I lost my Indian passport but I don’t have photocopy of the same. What should I do? Photocopy of the old passport is not a mandatory document to be submitted in case of lost/damaged/stolen passport. It should be produced, if it is available. But you will be required to produce, the previous passport details like passport number, Date of issue, Date of expiry and place of issue, while filling the passport application form. If you do not have that information, then contact the respective mission/post of that country. My passport booklet is damaged. I want to go abroad on urgent basis. What should I do? In case your passport has not been damaged beyond recognition, i.e. passport number is legible, name is legible and photo is intact, then you can apply for re-issue of passport under the Tatkaal scheme. But, if passport has been damaged beyond recognition, then you cannot apply under the Tatkaal scheme. In that case, you need to visit Passport Officer at your nearest Passport Seva Kendra to get the passport on urgent basis. I lost my passport in the U.S. and have been sent to India on Emergency Certificate. Can I be issued a new passport? If yes, what are the documents needed to get a passport? In case of lost passport, you need to apply for re-issue of passport. Following documents must be submitted along with the application: Proof of Present Address Proof of Date of Birth Affidavit stating how and where the passport got lost/damaged (Annexure ‘F’) Police report in original Self-attested photocopy of first two and last two pages, including ECR/Non-ECR page of old passport, if available.

Source: http://passportindia.gov.in/AppOnlineProject/online/faqLostDamagedPassports