Replacing a lost Dominica passport: reporting the loss and proving citizenship
For citizens naturalised through investment, replacement involves reporting the loss, explaining the circumstances and providing citizenship records. Routine processing estimates are not a replacement guarantee.
The report and citizenship evidence support the replacement application. This is not a promised timetable or automatic-issue sequence. A recovered original must be returned under the form’s undertaking.
A Dominican citizen whose passport is lost or stolen should report it promptly and prepare a replacement application. The government’s passport instructions require a statutory declaration or affidavit and say that a replacement will be issued only after thorough enquiries.[1] Citizens naturalised through investment also need their citizenship records: replacing the booklet involves more than supplying another photograph.
Connect the report to the application
The instructions require immediate reporting to the nearest police station, a Commonwealth of Dominica High Commission or consulate, or the Immigration Office in Roseau.[1] Someone abroad can contact the local police or Dominican mission and explain that a record is needed for a replacement passport.
Section 10 of the application asks for the old passport number, if known, the date, place and country of loss, the receiving authority, case-report number and reporting date.[2] Retain the receipt or reference and correspondence. A dated factual account helps keep the form and sworn statement consistent; a detail that cannot be recalled should not be presented as certain.
The report and the statutory declaration have different functions. Possessing a police receipt should not be taken as permission to omit the declaration or affidavit required by the replacement instructions.[1]
Keep the naturalisation evidence available
Section 5 records how citizenship was acquired and specifically asks whether it was obtained through investment, together with the relevant document number, place of issue and registration date. The supporting-document instructions list a birth certificate and naturalisation certificate for naturalised citizens.[1][2]
The naturalisation certificate therefore remains important after the first passport arrives. For a replacement, bring it together with retained passport particulars and ask the receiving office which originals or certified copies it requires. A scan can help recover information, but does not automatically satisfy a requirement for formal evidence.
The instructions allow applicants living abroad to apply through the nearest Dominican High Commission or consulate, or to provide the application and supporting documents to a proxy. A proxy needs written authority; it must be notarised where the applicant is overseas.[1] Delegating submission does not remove the need to explain the loss or cooperate with enquiries.
If the old passport is found
Section 10 includes an undertaking to return the passport to the Passport Office if it comes back into the applicant’s possession.[2] Notify the receiving authority if it is recovered, rather than resuming use without addressing the loss report and replacement application.
The declarations also need attention. Section 11 instructs anyone whose passport has been lost or stolen not to tick box E and to complete section 10.[2] Reusing the answers from an earlier application would risk overlooking this specific instruction.
Replacement enquiries affect the timetable
The form and instructions currently linked by the government portal are marked 30 March 2021. They establish the published replacement procedure used here; their routine times and fees should not be treated as a current individual quotation. The portal describes ordinary processing as two weeks, while the accompanying instructions give approximately 14 business days and separately require thorough enquiries for a lost, stolen or damaged document.[1][3]
Before committing to travel, obtain the receiving office’s requirements, applicable charges and assessment of the likely timetable. Reporting a loss, paying a fee and receiving the replacement are distinct milestones. None of the published routine estimates guarantees when a particular replacement will be ready.
Official sources
General policy information; individual circumstances and the competent authority’s requirements govern each application.