Who can request it and how is it processed in Colombia?

He emergency passport It is a document endorsed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia through the article 5 of decree 2465 of 2010.

This allows the Colombian to access in a short time to renew the passport to have the possibility of traveling abroad in the near future due to a case of extreme need, that is, You will not have to wait until the delivery of the ordinary passport.

It is important to highlight that the Foreign Ministry assured that the emergency passport will only be allowed to be requested if it is done simultaneously with the ordinary passport, paying both.

“Despite the fact that this double request implies significant costs for the compatriot. This is aimed at the need to discourage the emergency passport and prevent this document from becoming the ordinary passport for processing.”explained the Foreign Ministry through its digital channels.

That is, you will be given the emergency passport while the officer is in process.

Who can apply for it and the emergency passport?

The emergency passport has a total of eight pages, precisely because of the little use that should be given to it, purely to safeguard the rights of the person such as They are life, health and integrity.

The director of consular affairs of the Foreign Ministry, Fulvia Benavides, highlighted that “The figure of the emergency passport is, pardon the redundancy, for an emergency situation”mentioning some cases where the situation may occur.

The situations in which you can ask a document of this type are:

• Having the document expired and having to travel abroad due to a situation of extreme force.
• Having lost the document while abroad, with the need to return to the country.

How to apply for an emergency passport?

According to the official, for request this document Colombians must:

Go to any of the offices of the Colombian Foreign Ministry, whether in Bogotá, in the Governorates or in the consulates, in case of being abroad.

• Demonstrate the emergency situation with receipts, preferably physically.
• Account for the loss or expiration of the passport, and the dates of nearby need in which you must travel.
• When carrying out this process, you must also leave the ordinary passport in process, which should be ready upon your return to the country or at the offices of the Colombian embassy of the country you are going to.

It is key to reaffirm that this document does not replace the original passportand will have a maximum validity of six months from the moment of its issuance.