Lost Passport

[dot.hawkes]

Not me, my dozy daughter, she last had it when she landed at Manchester from Benidorm last June. Since then she has not needed it. It is nowhere to be found and so as we are going away end of June she has asked me to sort it out.. I have reported it as missing online and the Passport office have sent a form for her to fill in, but it is asking for the passport number.
I have looked on every ticket, holiday receipt and document I can find for the last 3 years and I cannot find the number on anything, I even still have all the luggage labels, where will i find the number?

[Buenchico]

Passport numbers are rarely recorded by travel companies, etc. If your daughter didn't make a note of it herself, it's unlikely that it would be on any travel documents.

Probably the vast majority of 'lost passport' forms, submitted to the passport office, are from people who haven't got a clue what the number was. This doesn't prevent them from being issued with a new passport. Simply write 'Not known' where the form asks for the number.

Chris

[Eve]

Has she ever had to have it photocopied as ID for anything? If she's used solicitors for anything then they may well hold a photocopy on file.

Could she ever have copied it herself? When I go away I leave photocopies with someone trusted in case it's lost or stolen when I'm away.

Failing that would the passport office give it to her if she can prove her identity to them, even by going in person to the passport office in Liverpool?

[Eve]

Just had another thought, they may be able to arrange to ID her and give her the number through their "high street partners":

- selected Post Office� branches, and
- selected Worldchoice travel agents.

There's a postcode search here...

http://www.passport.gov.uk/high_street_partner s.asp

[dzug]

As Chris says,just put unknown. Don't be form phobic. The passport office will be able to trace it - it's just a bit more work for them which could add a small amount to the time it takes to get it replaced.

[dot.hawkes]

Cheers all, hey Jenna spot on, i just phoned her to tell her what u said and we remembered, our company have a photocopy of the passport for legal id purposes so she can ring our HR for the nukmber lol I should have remembered that DOH Cheers jenna and thanks all,