What if passport is lost and home country has no diplomatic presence?
I come from a relatively small country and like to vacation in small countries where my home country has no consulate. I am just curious, hypothetically, what would be a course of action if my passport in one of those odd little places got lost or stolen and I got stranded there without consular support.
As a bonus, I also have a U.S. green card. If I lost my passport in, suppose Fiji where the U.S. does have a consulate, what could I do? How about Dominica (link provided to distinguish from the often confused Dominican Republic), where neither the U.S. not my country of passport issuance have consulates?
Best Answer
Without knowing your nationality, this is very much a hypothetical.
In addition to the answer by Choster, if you are an EU citizen you can receive consular assistance from any other EU representation if there is no national embassy or consulate.
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