Hello,

If I request a new passport (not a temporary passport) at the Swedish embassy in Bangkok, can I pick it up at the consulate in Vientiane?

I hold a Swedish passport.

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How would you get from Thailand to Laos without your passport? (Or can you keep your passport while the new one is being done?)

In case you can, then I'm sure the Embassy can arrange for it to be sent there - you'd have to pay for it, though . . . if they are helpful, of ourse

Edited September 18, 201213 yr by Sing_Sling

Yes, the simple answer is to ask the Embassy if you can courier it to them and get it couriered back. Otherwise you risk being stranded in Vientiane and locked up for being an illegal immigrant and eating cockroaches for breakfast and having your body defiled by psychopathic criminals and.....

i was under the impression you had to hand over your old passport when applying for new, though this might not be the case if you had and adequate amount of alternate id

i was under the impression you had to hand over your old passport when applying for new, though this might not be the case if you had and adequate amount of alternate id

No you hand over the old passport when you receive the new one.

Edited September 19, 201213 yr by Semper

i was under the impression you had to hand over your old passport when applying for new, though this might not be the case if you had and adequate amount of alternate id

No you hand over the old passport when you receive the new one.

........or, they make the old passport invalid by punching holes in it or cut the edges; there might still be a valid visa in it!!

Take care that you do get some kind of notification, that the new passport replaces a certain old passport; some immigration-offices do require such a letter, especially if they have to transfer visa or extensions of stay.

OP. They will send the new passport to the local consulate.

i was under the impression you had to hand over your old passport when applying for new, though this might not be the case if you had and adequate amount of alternate id

No you hand over the old passport when you receive the new one.

........or, they make the old passport invalid by punching holes in it or cut the edges; there might still be a valid visa in it!!

Take care that you do get some kind of notification, that the new passport replaces a certain old passport; some immigration-offices do require such a letter, especially if they have to transfer visa or extensions of stay.

I am a not a 100% but every time my passport was sent to different country for visa it could not go directly to the embassy. Also the embassy couldn't ship directly back to me and was usually routed through a company office then back to me. Anytime inside country was no issue. This used to be same for getting Thai visa in UK, thai embassy would return to address in UK but not outside.

From my experience after one lost Canadian passport, one stolen, two filled maybe three I can't remember They will leave a notification indicating your passport replaces a lost or stolen one with old numbers included. If is replaced for normal reasons then no notification.

They will hole punch or cut corners on all pages but not a page with valid visa, this has happened to me a couple times and you can still travel with your new passport and use the visa in your old invalid passport to gain access to countries.

I have found in many places that if it is not a busy embassy they will go above and beyond what their normal services are, if embassy is a well used one a lot less chance of any extra service.