Lost your Indian passport abroad? Here’s how to get home.
Report the loss to the local police and the nearest Indian embassy, high commission or consulate at once. To return to India, the mission usually issues an Emergency Certificate after it verifies your nationality and details.
What Indian citizens do, in order
- Report it to police and the missionReport the loss immediately to the nearest police station and to the Indian mission. Keep the police report: you need the original for a replacement passport.
- Apply online, then visitRegister on Passport Seva at Indian Embassies and Consulates, fill the form for an Emergency Certificate or a re-issued passport, print it and take it to the mission or its application centre.
- Going home: the Emergency CertificateAn Emergency Certificate (EC) is generally issued for the journey back to India once the mission has verified who you are.
- Replacing the passportApply for re-issue with the reason lost or damaged. Bring the police report, a declaration of how and where it was lost, and copies of the old passport’s pages if you have them. Lost-passport re-issues can’t use Tatkaal.
What it costs. Emergency Certificates and replacement passports are issued for a fee set by the mission; it is shown when you apply.
Watch out. Keep a copy of your passport’s first and last pages somewhere separate: missions ask for the number, date and place of issue.
Find your Indian mission, country by country
Each page lists every Indian embassy and consulate there, and the nearest one to each airport. Not listed? Find an Indian embassy or consulate ↗
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Angola
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Cape Verde
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
- Gabon
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guyana
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Libya
- Lithuania
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Malta
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Mongolia
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Qatar
- Republic of the Congo
- Réunion
- Romania
- Russia
- Rwanda
- São Tomé and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- South Sudan
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Uganda
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Questions people ask
What do I do first if I lose my Indian passport abroad?
Report the loss immediately to the nearest police station and to the Indian mission. Keep the police report: you need the original for a replacement passport.
How much does it cost?
Emergency Certificates and replacement passports are issued for a fee set by the mission; it is shown when you apply.
Can I use my passport if I find it after reporting it?
Keep a copy of your passport’s first and last pages somewhere separate: missions ask for the number, date and place of issue.
Can Num get me a new passport?
No. NUM is not a government agency; only your government issues passports. Num finds your nearest mission, lines up the documents and helps you rearrange your trip.
NUM is not a government agency and does not issue passports or travel documents. Only your government can, and its fees are paid to it directly. Embassy and consulate locations come from the governments’ own office lists where we have them, and from public data (Wikidata, Wikipedia’s lists of diplomatic missions, the UK Foreign Office’s list of posts, and © OpenStreetMap contributors under the ODbL); confirm opening hours and appointments on the mission’s own site. Steps checked on government pages, 6 Nov 2026.