Lost passport - help

[Lostpassporthelp]

I’m currently at my parents house in France, due to travel home to the UK on Tuesday. I’ve lost my passport. I’ve torn the house apart today and can’t find it anywhere. Please help me with ideas of where to look. Places I’ve looked so far:

Inside my car and my parents car

In my room, including emptying the wardrobe, chest of drawers, bedside tables, long high shelf in my bedroom. I’ve looked under them all too, including the bed. I’ve emptied and repacked every bag etc too.

My Mum has checked her mezzanine landing (set up as office) and her bedroom.

The upstairs attic has been checked, all chest of drawers etc looked inside.

The living room/dining room - all drawers, shelves etc have been searched.

It definitely came into the house and was in the living room for a while, before we think it was taken upstairs.

I’m completely panicking and very very stressed about it 😳😢

If you were going to put it away now, where would you put it? That horrid sick feeling when you can't find something makes it all the more difficult to find it, ime.

Bathroom?
Under leg of furniture or with a vase or cup on top of it?
prayed to St Anthony for you.
I agree with the colour thing, that burgundy wasn’t used for as many things so it was easier to spot. Many more navy/black things the new one blends into.

My DD was adamant that I lost her passport. Tore the house apart, looked in car under seats etc. Months later driving her back to uni and as we arrive ask if she had any parking permits. She pops open the glove box and there is her passport! No parking permits though…Oddly when searching the car I looked under the seats, under the mats, in the door compartments, console… just not in the glove box.

When I lost mine - it was stuck to a magazine on the sticky pad which had held a freebie thing

so I would have another look through piles of paperwork and check it hasn’t stuck to something?
lift up everything and check linings of coats and handbags as things can get stuck

As other posters have suggested. I've 'lost' my passport twice. Check the scanner on any printer or inside the pages of magazines/documents that your parents usually keep their documents that’s where mine were hiding

good luck, hope you find it

You need to systematically search every room bit by bit and slowly, I had this before with a driving licence, not as important as a passport granted but still… we found it after the cupboard had been ‘searched’ twice

I would contact the passport office asap to see of the Embassy in Paris can issue a travel document and see if you can rebook the ferry.

I have found that once you have everything organised the passport will be found in a coat pocket or stuffed into a hat...

Good luck

Sit quietly and take your mind back to when you last had it. Breathe gently and trust that your brain has the information about what happened it it. You just need to find the right neural path to find that memory, starting with when you last actually touched it. Even back to when you last showed if at customs. Then work forward from there.

all the best. Anytime you find yourself thinking it’s lost or you do not know where it is, allow that thought to escape by breathing out. Keep thinking back and you will find the memory. Then the passport. Good luck.

It’s DRAWER

Ah well done @ilovepixie, correcting a previous poster's spelling will help the OP stay calm enough to find her passport and also make the previous poster feel wonderful. Read the room.

If you have lost it, there is an online form to complete on gov.uk to say you have lost it, questions including the passport number, you then have to take a photo of yourself and upload it. It takes approximately 48 hours and then you will have to have an interview at the nearest British consulate office where you will be given emergency travel documentation which can be used just for your return journey and they will take it off you on arrival in the UK. It’s a bit of a gamble as to when to start this process as once you do, you can no longer use your existing passport, should you find it at the bottom of your handbag (or wherever). Unfortunately, even if you start the process first thing in the morning, it’s probably unlikely you will be able to get it sorted to return home on Tuesday, unless there is a consulate office in between where you are staying and the ferry port.

Hopefully it will turn up (or you may even have it by now!).

Is it behind the shoe storage?

Have you asked all the other visitors to check their documents and bags they were using when they visited in case they packed it thinking it was theirs?

Take everything out of every single container in every single room, starting with the room you last saw it in. Empty every pocket in every jacket or trousers, all the containers in all suitcases, bags, drawers, piles of papers, boxes of toys. Tip all the contents out, shake them and return them one by one. Take the drawer out and feel behind it. Move every cushion from every item of furniture and feel down the sides, move the item and look under and behind it. If the passport is in the house, you will find it that way, and it takes less time than you might think, much less than stirring the contents of drawers and miserably flicking through books or papers. Sending St Antony vibes.

I've found missing passports under the sofa, in the wash basket, under the bed and in the printer (husband had made a copy)

Keep looking room by room. I couldn't find mine for a while and then one day I opened a drawer it would never normally be in and there it was. No memory of putting it there either.

Any pets that might have it in their bed.under the cage?

It went upstairs. Did you go out at all during stay and maybe take it as ID or just with your wallet so might be in a shop?

Look between cabinets. Between bed and bedside cabinets.
Squeesezed between mattress and bed frame.
Under the fridge.
Under sofa cushions and down back of sofa.
In wardrobes.
All drawers.
Suitcases and bags every flap and corner.

I lost my rings at Christmas after arriving home. Found them several days later in the bookcase. They had been sitting on a book on a table, I set another 2/3 books which were part of same set on top and brought to bookcase. I only found them after taking a book out to read. I thought I’d left them on the boat. In or between books may be worth trying. Good luck!

I know this sounds a bit woo, but get everyone to take a deep breath, visualise the passport, then walk to where they are most “drawn” to. Even if they feel like they’ve definitely already looked there. Then do a really intensive search of those locations. It’s not a mystical thing, people often have a “pull” towards where they last saw an item, even if they can’t consciously remember it. You need to bypass the conscious brain, which is saying “I’ve looked, it’s not there”. It’s worth a try.

Dressing gown pocket is where I invariably find things.

Agreed with above person

You cannot just turn up at a consulate without an appointment

You need to log passport as lost first

Wait for an appointment to attend the consulate or embassy

Wait to be granted a temporary passport approx £100

Enter UK

Apply & pay for a replacement 10 year passport

Why did you give the passport to your parents to keep safe ?

Why were you not keeping the passport safe ?

The reason I asked my Mum to keep it safe was because over Christmas there was a lot of comings and goings, bedroom shuffling etc as people come and go and I stupidly thought it would be safer with their passports than inadvertently lost from a bag as I moved bedrooms etc during the holiday, depending who was staying at that point. The safest place probably would have been the glovebox in my car, however that has its own risks so I decided against it. Sometimes good intentions turn out to be the wrong decision.

Has it turned up @Lostpassporthelp? Or did you decide to start the lost passport process?

It hasn’t turned up, we’ve spent another day searching everywhere including getting everything out from under beds etc. I’m going to start the process first thing tomorrow morning. Thank you for checking though 😊