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What to Do If You Lost Your Passport
By Passport Editorial

If you lost your passport, what would you do? How would you protect your personal information while ensuring that your travel plans are not interrupted? Make sure you know what to do if you lost your passport. Follow our Lost Passport Replacement instructions below: Step 1: Report the Lost Passport Before you give up on finding your passport, stop, take a deep breath and commit to looking one more time. Try the steps outlined in Finding a Lost Passport. After…

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Finding a Lost Passport
By Passport Editorial

It's easy to replace a lost passport. A lost, stolen, or damaged passport can be replaced in 6-8 weeks through the post office or county clerk. However, if you need your passport fast, there are better options for you. Expedited passport services can replace your missing passport with processing times as quick as 24 hours. What to do when you can't find your passport A lost passport can be a disaster if you have an international trip on the horizon.…

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What Should You Do If Your Passport Is Lost or Stolen While Traveling Abroad?
By Passport Editorial

Traveling to a foreign country should be a wonderful experience, but if your passport is lost or stolen while you are abroad, it will be anything but fun. Not only does it create concerns about identity theft, but without your passport you won’t be able to leave a foreign country to return home. The best thing you can do to protect yourself is to plan ahead. Before your trip, scan the information page of your passport and print a copy…

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Polite Thief Returns Stolen Passport
By Passport Editorial

When your passport is stolen, the last thing you'd expect the thief to do is to take the time to mail it back to you. But that's what happened to one US tourist vacationing in England in May, according to the BBC. The tourist, a 73-year-old woman, was waiting with her husband for a train to the airport when a young man stole her handbag, which contained a little over $8,000 worth of jewels. The woman replaced her stolen passport…

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Stolen Passport Makes Puts a Damper on Being John Malkovich
By Passport Editorial

In the 1999 film Being John Malkovich, actor John Malkovich plays a fictional version of himself grappling with a surreal variety of identity theft: a "portal" that allowed other people to take control of his brain. Now, he's the victim of a much more prosaic type: a stolen passport. According to Reuters, Malkovich's passport was stolen from his Prague hotel room last Friday, along with two cell phones. A spokeswoman for the Mandarin Oriental hotel told Reuters that "We can…

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Stolen Passports Increasingly Common in El Paso, Texas
By Passport Editorial

If you live in El Paso, keep a close eye on your US passport.  According to local TV station NewsChannel9,  stolen passports are on the rise as thieves target US citizens for their travel documents. In a story published on March 17th, the station advised that the local passport office had noticed a trend of people being mugged not for cash or jewelry, but for their US passports.  On April 19th, they reported that the trend had continued, and that…

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Lost Passport Could Derail Foreign Adoption
By Passport Editorial

A Massachusetts woman whose purse was stolen lost more than her wallet-she also lost her passport, complicating her plans to adopt  a little girl from Ethiopia. According to WBZTV.com , Colleen MacRae was shopping inside a Home Depot store when a man distracted her and then made off with her purse. Inside was her passport. The lost passport is potentially more than an inconvenience-it also puts her and her husband's plans to adopt a child in Ethiopia next month in…

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