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Wednesday, October 7, 2015

What to do if lost luggage, passport when traveling abroad?

Lost luggage, especially passport when traveling abroad, as one of the worst tourists sometimes faced. In this situation, you have to deal with how to get support fast?
Lost luggage, travel papers for foreigners
Property lost in a foreign land where the worst situations that any visitor can encounter. In this case, the first thing you have to stay calm, trying to remember the most suspicious point.
If traveling alone, you set off to the hotel, the reception to call the cab company taken to the nearest police station and obtain confirmation lost passport. If traveling in groups, please notify the tour guide.
The report at the police station is not the case always effective. However, we should not miss any hope. Then you contact the embassy offices, consulates to carry out the procedures for applying for a new passport.
The next step, if you lost luggage, including credit cards, phone calls immediately inform the bank where you open your account, report card lock, blockaded the right to use the card with the thief.
You should look to the room, "searching for items lost" in the home country, leaving personal information and items stolen. If lucky, someone might get back to you.
Keep your receipts and papers related to the theft. Later when returning to the country, you can apply for reimbursement from the insurance company.
Procedures for applying for passports while abroad
Fill complete information on reporting lost passport application and mail the Consular Department (cls.mfa@mofa.gov.vn) and diplomatic representative agencies Vietnam where you are present with two 4x6 pictures with white background . Attach a statement of passports reported lost police station.
When the passport is lost cancellation notice, it will not be recovered in value. If you find a lost passport, you do not use it anymore and need to apply for a new book.
If you bring proof of nationality Vietnam as people's identity cards, entry declarations, within 5 working days, you are granted the passport if other countries continue to come, if the country you are granted passport.
If you take the tour, the group, the group with the personal passport, identify yourself as a member of the delegation, you are granted a passport of the country in 24 hours.
If not on the subjects mentioned above, Vietnam representative agencies in host countries to conduct verification. No more than 5 working days, you are considered issuance of passports or travel documents for their return.
Advice:
Before this bad situations happen, you should equip yourself some basic prevention. When abroad, you should buy a special bag worn on a person carrying the passport, record the address and telephone number of embassies in the host country. Do not leave your passport at the hotel or backpack, luggage, as they may be stolen.
Always prepared 4x6 white background (the type used for passport), a copy of passport (original color), identification, declaration room when lost passport. These documents are absolutely not common passport storage. In case unfortunately lost the original passport and papers available will help you to quickly complete procedures.
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