What to do after losing the passport?
What to do after losing the passport : Today, the passport is considered one of the most important identification documents. Therefore, losing a passport can be very troublesome for people. Because the possibility of misusing a lost passport is high due to the importance of this identity document. If you lose this document, you must immediately issue a copy to avoid the consequences of its loss. Passport is one of the most important documents for people to leave their country and enter other countries. Without having this document, any exit from the country and entry into other countries is considered illegal and the person will face the consequences of unauthorized and illegal entry and exit. For this reason, to develop the best lawyers who deal with such issues, people should try to maintain this degree.
Lost passport
Sometimes, due to reasons such as theft or other reasons, people’s passports are lost. In other words, this document is no longer available. As we mentioned from the beginning, if you lose your passport, you must immediately report it to the passport office. So that your passport is not misused by profiteers. In the case of a lost passport, you should follow up on the missing issue based on the method of reporting the loss and through the relevant inquiry system in order to avoid the legal consequences of this and possible misuse of your passport.
But keep in mind that you don’t need to publish a lost passport ad to do this. The International Police has a system for registering lost passports in which the latest status of lost passports is recorded. Therefore, by reporting the loss of your passport to the police, you will actually register the loss of your passport and its related information in the Interpol system. If your passport is found, you should inform the police about it so that your passport information can be updated in the Interpol system.
Lost passport inquiry
In this part of this article, we want to check how and through what system we should inquire about the loss of our passport. At the very beginning, know that, currently, there is no system called lost passport inquiry system for ordinary people. This means that this system is at the disposal of the International Police or Interpol and some competent authorities.
If ordinary people want to inquire about their lost documents, including passports, they can refer to the e-mail address postyafteh.post.ir. Search for your lost passport by entering the necessary information through the found search option. These people can be informed about this in case of delivery by the finder to the post office.
Necessary actions after the passport is lost
We know so far, considering the importance of the passport, losing this document may cause a person to face many legal consequences. Now it’s time to fully examine the necessary measures after the loss of the passport in this section. These actions will be different depending on whether or not the passport is valid. We examine each one separately.
Necessary measures in case of lost valid passport
In this situation, we have the following two cases according to the person’s country of residence:
If the applicant is a resident of Iran, he should go to the passport office of his city as soon as possible to prevent possible abuses and report the loss of his passport. If he wants to get a new passport, he must request the issuance of a duplicate passport by submitting documents.
If a person lives abroad, he should also refer to the representative offices of the Islamic Republic of Iran abroad. Also, by declaring the missing, request to issue a new passport.
Necessary measures in the case of losing an invalid passport
If the validity of this identity document has ended due to the loss of the passport, it is enough for the person to go to one of the +10 police offices with the necessary documents. After submitting the necessary documents and filling out the special forms, apply for the issuance of a passport, due to the expiration of its validity date, so that these offices, after reviewing the documents and the application, will issue a new passport to the applicant.
Documents required to issue a duplicate passport
The documents that you must provide after losing your passport in order to issue a copy of this document are:
Completing two pages of the passport issuance form
Providing a photocopy of pages 2 and 3 and the page with the last exit stamp.
If there is no proof of the date of legal departure from the country, the legal departure inquiry form must be completed and attached.
Presenting the original birth certificate of the Islamic Republic of Iran and two series of photocopies of all pages
Three new biometric photos 4 x 3 full face, from the front, without hat and glasses
Written declaration of the complete description of how the passport was lost in two copies
Submitting a letter of declaration and confirmation from the local police
Providing a photocopy of the national identity card
Announcing the loss of passports of Iranians abroad
Obviously, people who reside outside the borders of Iran due to travel, work or study may also face the problem of losing their passports. The method of declaring missing persons for Iranians abroad, based on what is stated on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the address mfa.gov.ir, is as follows:
The person should go to the local police and report the missing person.
Receiving a police report regarding the missing person report.
A person can refer to Mikhak system at mikhak.mfa.gov.ir and register a request for issuing a new passport due to loss or theft.
Uploading the required documents in the Clove system, which includes things such as the image of the first page of the passport, the page related to the stamp of the last departure from the Islamic Republic of Iran to abroad, the image on the back and on the national card, the image of the termination of service or exemption card, the image of the local police report, The image of the identity documents related to the spouse and other matters announced on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Visiting the representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran in person and providing the tracking code for registering the application in the Clove system, as well as providing the original uploaded documents.
It is worth mentioning that in the case of people under eighteen years of age or women with a spouse, the presence of a legal guardian and spouse is mandatory.
Publication of an ad for lost passports
At the beginning of this article, we said that it is not necessary to publish an ad about lost passports in widely circulated newspapers. In closing, we would like to remind you that your immediate action is enough to report a missing person to the police. Therefore, in case of encountering this issue, it is enough to report the missing status by visiting the nearest +10 police office. Filling out missing forms in these offices will invalidate your passport. As we said earlier, in these cases, Iranians abroad should go to the Iranian embassy in their country of residence. or refer to Iran’s interest protection office. In this way, let them know about the missing levels.