Emergency travel document question

[248900_1469958220]

Hello all,

 

My i.d page on my UK passport has an ink stain...it covers some of the numbers at the bottom left of the page. This happened recently. I am travelling to Australia to see my parents on the 5th of April....

I am worried I will be rejected...though my passport numer...photo....date of birth etc is all visible. I called the British Embassy in Bangkok. I asked about getting an emergency travel document. I now understand that this will completely cancel my passport.....with my NON immigrant O visa in it!! I dont understand what will happpen. Please help me with my questions:

 

1) I will leave Thailand with just a travel document. It is not a passport...What happens to my Thai visa? 

2) When I enter back into Thailand I wont have a valid passport. So???

3) what happens to me and my Thai visa status while I wait for a new British passport to be sent??

 

the guy at the British Embassy told me NOT to cancel the passport till I am sure I know what the Thais expect. My wife is helping me with this...but its all very confusing.

 

Do I take my chances?  I REALLY dont want to risk losing the NON immigrant O visa I recently obtained...it was HARD to get.

 

Advice please....it would be much appreciated. 

 

....Ok, seems I cannot get a re entry permit with this document. I am confused. 

[DrJack54]

Your pp is biometric.

Perhaps post pic of damaged area. 

Bottom left is biometric. Read by computer. 

Does your pp have reentry permit? 

[Upnotover]

Cancel your trip. Apply for a new passport.  The emergency document is meant for getting you 'home', not for going on holiday.

[Will27]

As DrJack advised, I'd be posting a picture before I go to the trouble of cancelling and getting a new passport.

[JimmyJoe]

An emergency travel document can normally only be used to travel to your home country that issued the document.  It's very unlikely you could use it to travel to Australia or back to Thailand.

 

If your current passport is too damaged to travel, you need to postpone your trip until you can get a new passport.

[DrJack54]

OP, moved your thread to this forum. Perhaps more advice here. 

[OJAS]

18 hours ago, 248900_1469958220 said:

the guy at the British Embassy told me NOT to cancel the passport till I am sure I know what the Thais expect.

 

IMHO you need to be equally concerned about what the Aussies might expect upon your arrival in their country. Or even what the airport check-in assistant for your flight to Australia might expect.

 

As already said, I think that your only practical option is to postpone your trip until you have obtained a new passport. That said, official guidance on obtaining an emergency travel document is contained in the following link:

 

https://www.gov.uk/travel-urgently-from-abroad-without-uk-passport

 

EDIT: It might be helpful if you could post a scanned image of your passport photopage on here - with all personal/security info redacted, of course - so as to enable us to assess the potential seriousness of the damage in this instance.

[Cuchulainn]

Which is more important to you, your trip to Aus or your Non O visa?

 

Personally, I would cancel the trip and get a new GBR passport.

 

I wouldn't even consider an emergency travel document.

[OJAS]

1 hour ago, OJAS said:

IMHO you need to be equally concerned about what the Aussies might expect upon your arrival in their country

 @248900_1469958220 - in this connection I understand that, as a British national, you will require 1 or other of the following visa types in order to be able to enter Australia:

 

https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-listing/evisitor-651#Overview

 

https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-listing/electronic-travel-authority-601

 

Whether you will be able to get a visa linked to an emergency travel document strikes me as being highly complex at best and completely impossible at worst,

 

[248900_1469958220]

Thanks very much all....

 

Yes, I agree with everyone here. I have postponed my trip. The emergency travel doc is basically to get back to UK....you are right.

 

I am going to get a new passport and visit my parents in Aus in October. I think the risk was way to high after having looked into it

 

Cheers all

[DrJack54]

8 minutes ago, 248900_1469958220 said:

I am going to get a new passport and visit my parents in Aus in October. I think the risk was way to high after having looked into it

Good plan. OP, has his answer. Thread closed.