Emergency passport for CRBA

[traveller01 0]

hello,

 I have a child abroad and am desperately trying to get back to the US(I am a citizen). I have been delayed due to local bureaucracy and due to personal situations have to be with my child outside the USA.

 

I finally cleared all the local  hurdles and got to CRBA interview and cleared but just awaiting DNA results. Question after DNA can i request an emergency passport for the child and return and deal with full passport after returning? No urgency to leave after returning to USA. 

 

Anyone have experience with this. They say the CRBA/regular passport takes anywhere from 2-4 weeks and would rather be back stateside.

 

regular lost passport they issue emergency, but just wondering anyone got emergency passport for CRBA?

Edited December 29, 2018 by traveller01

[JFH 12,190]

Emergency passports are typically only provided for life or death situations. You have to supply evidence of the need for an emergency passport to get one. USCs overseas can get replacement passports pretty quickly if their passport is lost or stolen whilst overseas because they are already “in the system”. Getting a first passport involves a lot of document verification, etc so the process is more complex and takes longer. 

[milimelo 4,475]

You won’t get an emergency passport for CRBA. Regular one. 

[traveller01 0]

20 minutes ago, JFH said:

Emergency passports are typically only provided for life or death situations. You have to supply evidence of the need for an emergency passport to get one. USCs overseas can get replacement passports pretty quickly if their passport is lost or stolen whilst overseas because they are already “in the system”. Getting a first passport involves a lot of document verification, etc so the process is more complex and takes longer. 

Thanks, in my case all documentation is done just awaiting DNA test. I believe the embassy can issue an emergency passport in a day or two which has a valid period of only six months and so usually only used for onward journey to the USA. Then you get full passport.  My process is done, just stuck in a bureaucratic-local government-nightmare. Finally everything done.  People I talked to say CRBA took 2-4 weeks-sometimes even 8 weeks. Hence I was wondering since passport/CRBA all approved pending DNA-which will pass as I already took a local DNA.

 

The current process since 2011 I guess is for the embassy to ship the details to US and then US to ship them back and hence I was wondering-rather deal with full documents back home?