Emergency Passports

 

If your passport has been stolen, damaged or lost and your travel is urgent, you may be eligible for an emergency passport. 

You must lodge an emergency passport application in person at either our Embassy in Athens (for Greece) or our Consulates in Bucharest (for Romania) or Sofia (for Bulgaria). Please phone or email in advance to make an appointment and also bring two recent passport photographs of yourself.

Please follow the step-by-step guide on how to lodge your application. Along with all other requirements, you must provide evidence of urgency (such as air tickets showing travel in the near future). Please also note the specific fee for an emergency passport.

An emergency passport is usually issued within 2-3 working days after the payment is taken and all requirements are met.  Some applications, such as child applications without full consent or for children born through surrogacy, require additional processing time. If you have had a previous passport lost, stolen or damaged in the last five years, this may also increase the processing time.

An emergency passport has four visa pages, and the validity will be limited to meet your immediate travel needs (usually 7 months validity, maximum 1 year validity in exceptional circumstances). It does not contain a chip and cannot be used to enter or transit some countries. Please research the country you are travelling to determine if an emergency passport is acceptable.

If you are travelling to a country that requires a visa, you should check with the embassy of that country whether a visa can be issued in an emergency passport and if there is a minimum validity required for the passport.