Austria - Apply for Emergency Passport

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Procedure

1. You will need to apply for an emergency passport personally.
2. Submit all the required documents and provide all the needed information.
3. Pay the application fee.

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Required Documents

In Germany

• Official identification card or an identity witness / witnesses of identity with official photo identification, so that the identity can be determined
• A passport photo (Portrait 35 x 45 mm ) not older than six months after certain criteria passport photo (in color)
• Additional Requirement if you have never requested a red passport or identity card in a credit card format:
  • Proof of citizenship , award notice or confirmation staatsbrgerschaftliche
  • Birth certificate (may be required)
• Additional requirements when changing names:
  • Marriage certificate or name change notification
• When the desired entry of an academic degree or professional title of Engineer / Engineer:
  • Award certificate

Should the provision of proof of citizenship or birth certificate is not possible, an emergency passport can only be issued if the Passport issuing authority may request the information with the relevant authorities (depending on the office hours of other authorities under certain circumstances).

Abroad

• Evidence of an urgent reason ( eg flight ticket, hotel confirmations, loss or theft)
• A still existing identity card or identity of honor / an identity witnesses or any evidence of identity
• A passport photo (Portrait 35 x 45 mm ) not older than six months after certain criteria passport photo (in color)

Office Locations & Contacts

Municipal Offices

To locate offices: https://www.help.gv.at/linkaufloesung/applikation-flow?leistung=LA-HP-RL-Meldezettel&flow=LO&quelle=HELP

City Council

To locate Statutory Offices: https://www.help.gv.at/Portal.Node/hlpd/public/content/99/Seite.991304.html

Leoben

A-8700 Leoben, Erzherzog Johann-Strae 2

Tel: +43 (0)3842/4062-450 bis 454

Fax: +43 (0)3842/4062-455

Operating Hours:

Mo Do: 08:00 Uhr-16:00 Uhr

Fr: 08:00 Uhr-12:30 Uhr

Municipality of Schwechat

Passport Office

Town Hall Square 9, Ground Floor

Tel: 01 70108221 ext 319 or ext

Fax: 01 70108394 DW

Austrian Representations Abroad:http://www.bmeia.gv.at/aussenministerium/buergerservice/oesterreichische-vertretungen.html

Linz

Passport Center Hauptstrae 1 - 5, Neues Rathaus, 1.

Stock (ber dem Brgerservice Center), 4041 Linz

Tel.: +43 732 7070

Fax.: +43 732 7070 54 2110

E-Mail.: [email protected]

Fire Department

Wiener Strae 154, 4020 Linz

Tel.: +43 732 3342 0

E-Mail.: [email protected]

http://www.linz.at/feuerwehr/3050.asp

Online Emergency Passport Form: http://portal.linz.gv.at/Serviceguide/viewCallMeBack.html?topic=Notpass

To know more: http://portal.linz.gv.at/Serviceguide/viewChapter.html?chapterid=122887

Vienna

Headquarters of the Passport Office

1082 Vienna, Lerchenfelderstrae 4, 2 Floor, room 201

Home http://www.wien.gv.at/verwaltung/passservice/

email [email protected]

Phone +43 1 4000 89516

Phone : +43 1 89517 4000

Telephone : +43 1 4000 89523

Outside office hours contact number:

City Hall Station ( MA- 68) 1, 2 Lichtenfelsgasse

Phone: +43 1 4000-98350

Fax: +43 1 4000-99-98350

Upper Municipal Councillor Head of Department: +43 1 4000 89511

Deputy Head of Department: +43 1 4000 89513

Issuance of travel documents other than emergency passports: Monday to Wednesday, Friday from 8.00 to 13.00 clock Monday to Wednesday afternoons by appointment booking Thursdays from 8:00 bis 17.30 clock.

Exhibition of Notpssen, frustrations and deprivations of travel documents: Monday to Wednesday Friday from 8.00 to 15.30 clock Thursdays from 8:00 bis 17.30 clock

Office hours: Monday to Wednesday, Friday 7:30 to 15:30 clock Thursday from 7.30 bis 17.30 clock Excludes: closed on public holidays, on Good Friday, Christmas Eve (24.12.) and New Year's Eve (31.12.) Retrieved from 7.30 bis 12.00 clock

Eligibility

Reason for the issuance of an emergency passport:

• You have an important and urgent need to travel that would require a passport ( eg you have forgotten your passport at home).
• The period within which you need the passport is not sufficient for the issuance of a new passport.
• You only need the passport for entry into the Federal territory ( eg because your passport was stolen abroad).
• The decrease in Papillarlinienabdrcke the fingers of one or both hands is temporarily unavailable due to injury.

Fees

Germany

• Emergency passport: 75.90 EUR
• Emergency passport for minors:
  • 1 to 2 years old: free
  • Older than 2 years old: 30 EUR
  • 12 years old up: 75.90 EUR

Abroad

• Emergency passport: 76 (outside of office hours is to pay a 50 percent surcharge)
• Emergency passport for minors under twelve years old: 30 (outside of office hours is to pay a 50 percent surcharge)

NOTE: Flat Rate

Validity

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e.g. Birth Certificate Valid Forever

Documents to Use

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Processing Time

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Instructions

The passport authority:

In Germany

• The district administration - In Leoben and Schwechat : the community
• In statutory cities : the City Council - In Vienna: HQ of the Passport Service Municipal Department.

Outside Office Hours

• The call of the journal service / call duty, the district administration
• In statutory cities , Service Magistrate:
  • In Vienna: the Guard City Hall (Municipal Department 68)
  • In Linz: the Fire Department

NOTE: Please note that not all states accept an emergency passport or to establish further conditions ( eg United States since 1 July 2009, Turkey). information about it is available on the website of the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs.

Starting 1 July 2009 entering the United States with an Austrian emergency passport under the " Visa Waiver Program "is no longer possible.

The entry with an emergency passport is only in connection with a visa to the U.S. diplomatic mission-possible. Here are observed: the agreement of a interview appointment at the U.S. representative authority, the cost of currently about 105 euros and the processing time of at least two business days.

Due to the processing time for a U.S. visa the possibility of issuing a one-day domestic express passport should be considered.

Further information on the one-day Express Pass can be found in the Information Sheet.

The cited provisions apply even if the actual destination is not USA , but a U.S. airport for onward travel (transit) must be used.

Required Information

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e.g.
1. Date of Birth.
2. City or County of Birth.

Need for the Document

A passport is a document issued by the government. It certifies the identity and nationality of the holder, to be used for travel abroad. It contains informations about the holder; like name, gender, date and place of birth.

Passport Authorities can issue an emergency passport to an Austrian Citizen who has an urgent need to travel abroad and does not possess any travel document. An emergency passport is a cream white passport issued without a chip and it is valid for a limited period. Person requesting for a passport must be able to show proof why he/she needs to travel abroad urgently.

Information which might help

Follow the link below if you would like to receive email notification about renewing your passport or making some modifications on your passport information.

https://www.help.gv.at/notify/applikation-flow?gf=RPASS&quelle=HELP

Other uses of the Document/Certificate

Please explain what are other uses of obtaining this document/certificate.
e.g. Birth Certificate can be used as proof of identity.

External Links

• Passport Act

http://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10005798

• Pass Regulation

http://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10005961

• Passport Act Implementing Regulation

http://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=20004791

• Austrian Government Portal

https://www.help.gv.at/Portal.Node/hlpd/public/content/2/Seite.020700.html

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