Replacing Emergency Passports

If you were issued an emergency passport or a limited validity emergency passport by an Embassy or Consulate because of an urgent need to travel, we encourage you to replace the emergency passport with a full-validity passport immediately upon completion of your trip.

If your current one-year validity emergency passport has expired, you will need to complete and submit the DS-82 application form please see our section on Passport renewals.  However, for minors, the DS-11 application form must be completed and submitted in person.  Please see our section on Child Passports for further details.  In both cases you will have to pay the full fee for the new passport.

If the endorsement code on the last page of your emergency passport states that your passport was issued under '22 CFR 51.41', you must also submit proof of citizenship in the form of one of the following:

• a U.S. birth certificate
• a Consular Report of Birth Abroad
• a U.S. naturalization certificate
• a U.S. certificate of citizenship
• an expired U.S. passport.

Endorsement 'Issued under 22 CFR 51.28'

If the endorsement code on the last page of your emergency passport states that your passport was issued under '22 CFR 51.28', you must also submit proof of identity in the form of one of the following:

• a valid passport of any country
• valid driver’s license with photograph
• a national identity card with photograph
• a valid U.S. or state issued ID card
• a U.S. military identity card