Life-or-death emergency A death, dying relative, or life-threatening injury in your immediate family, and you fly within 3 business days? Call the National Passport Information Center: 1-877-487-2778
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When your passport is the only thing standing between you and a flight.

We are not the government and we can't issue a passport. What we can do is tell you exactly which route you qualify for, what to carry, and who to call — in plain language, sourced to official guidance, before you lose another day.

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Which route are you on?

Two questions. No email required to see your answer.

1 — When do you depart?
The three routes

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These are the only three ways to move faster than routine processing. Anyone charging you to "unlock" this information is selling you something you already have.

Departure within 3 business days

Life-or-death emergency

For the death, serious illness, or life-threatening injury of an immediate family member. This route is phone-first — you cannot book it online.

  1. Call first. The National Passport Information Center, 1-877-487-2778, is the entry point. Confirm current hours at the official page before relying on them.
  2. Evidence of the emergency. A death certificate, a signed mortuary statement, or an official hospital letter — translated into English if the original is not.
  3. Proof of travel. A confirmed international itinerary showing departure inside 3 business days.
  4. Then the standard set. Form, citizenship evidence, photo ID, photo, and fees.

Official life-or-death guidance →

Departure within 14 calendar days

Urgent travel

No emergency required. If you travel inside 14 days, you can request an in-person agency appointment.

  1. Book the appointment. Appointments are free and non-transferable. No courier or expeditor can get you one that you cannot get yourself.
  2. Complete the right form before you arrive — the form finder tells you which applies.
  3. Bring originals. Citizenship evidence, identification, and a photocopy of each, plus a compliant photo.
  4. Budget the fees, including the $60 expedite fee where it applies.

Official appointment guidance →

Passport lost or stolen abroad

You're already overseas

Different route entirely. Your embassy or consulate handles this, and may issue a limited-validity document to get you home.

  1. Report it as lost or stolen so it cannot be misused.
  2. Contact the nearest embassy or consulate and ask for American Citizens Services.
  3. A police report helps but is generally not required to be seen.
  4. Expect a limited-validity passport for immediate return, replaced fully once home.

Official lost-abroad guidance →

Two things worth saying plainly

Appointments are free. No third party — including us — can obtain, reserve, or accelerate a government appointment on your behalf. Official guidance is explicit that couriers do not beat agency speed.

We are not a government agency. emergencypassport.info is an independent publisher. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting for any government body, and we cannot issue, expedite, or influence any application.

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What's actually happening right now.

Country advisory levels from the U.S. State Department and airport closures and ground delays from the FAA, aggregated and refreshed continuously. Free to read here. Get it as an alert for $1/month and you'll know before you're standing in the terminal.

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Country advisories

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Airports

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Sources: State Dept advisories · FAA NAS status Planning aid only — always confirm against the source before you travel.
Coverage

Starting with the United States. Expanding outward.

Emergencies don't respect borders. We're building the same sourced, plain-language treatment for each country's urgent-passport route, one at a time — and we'd rather say "not yet" than publish something we haven't verified against the issuing authority.

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Plans

The board is free. Being told is what you pay for.

If you're in crisis right now, take the protocols above and go — you don't need to buy anything. These plans are for the trip you haven't taken yet, and for people who'd rather have someone in their corner before something goes wrong.

Dispatch

The mailing list. Start here.

$1/ month
  • A weekly travel-risk briefing, written not generated
  • What changed, what it means, and whether you need to act
  • Passport validity and renewal reminders
  • Scam and fake-expeditor warnings

Watch

For people with a trip on the calendar.

$9/ month
  • Real-time alerts the moment an advisory level moves or your airport closes
  • Watch specific countries and airports — only what affects you
  • Severity threshold you set, so you're never spammed
  • Everything in Dispatch

The board is free to read any time. Watch is for when you need it to find you.

Navigator

For the application itself.

$29/ month
  • Everything in Watch
  • All six in-depth guides — minors, already-applied, lost abroad, appointment day
  • Printable checklists tailored to your route
  • All three document kits included
  • New country guides the day they ship

Advocate

When you want a human on it.

$299/ year
  • A named contact who knows your case
  • We review your paperwork before you file
  • If a filing stalls, we chase it — tracking, written follow-ups, escalation
  • We can contact your airline, employer or host to document the delay
  • Household coverage

This is not insurance and not legal representation. We prepare, chase, document and escalate. We cannot compel any authority to act, and we don't reimburse costs.

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One-time kits

Prefer to just buy the document once?

No subscription. Each is a self-contained PDF, reviewed against official guidance on the date shown at the bottom of this page.

Complete Emergency Passport Protocol

The full decision tree, all three routes, evidence requirements, and what to do when you're turned away.

$12.00

Agency Appointment Map & Prep Guide

Regional agency list, how the booking system behaves, and how to prepare so a single appointment is enough.

$9.00

Document Checklist Bundle

Printable checklists for each route — adult, minor, renewal, lost-abroad — with the photocopy rules people miss.

$7.00
Why you can trust this

Every operational claim traces to an official source.

Our editorial rule is short: only official government sources may support an operational claim. No blogs, no expeditors, no appointment resellers, no forums. If a source changes and contradicts us, we change — a marketable claim never outranks a newer official statement.

Source register Last full review:
TopicOfficial source
Service windows & processing timestravel.state.gov — get fast
Agency appointments & locationstravel.state.gov — make an appointment
Life-or-death eligibility & phone hourstravel.state.gov — life-or-death emergencies
Forms & feestravel.state.gov — fees
Citizenship evidence & identificationtravel.state.gov — citizenship evidence
Lost or stolen abroadtravel.state.gov — lost or stolen abroad
Courier & expeditor warningstravel.state.gov — courier companies
Application statuspassportstatus.state.gov