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Identify which situation applies before choosing a report or application.\n\n## Identify the situation\n\nState’s [loss-reporting instructions](https://travel.state.gov/en/passports/renew-replace/report-passport-lost-stolen.html) distinguish:\n\n- **Valid physical document lost or stolen:** report promptly. Reporting invalidates it even if later found; it does not replace it.\n- **Expired document or exposed number only:** do not report this as valid physical-document loss.\n- **Passport never received by mail:** follow the separate status/nonreceipt instructions. Missing citizenship originals are another mailing.\n\nPrivately establish product, validity, previous report and actual receipt. Unknown facts remain unresolved; publish no passport identifiers or scans.\n\n## Separate the next steps\n\nThe page offers online reporting through its official Form Filler, mailed signed **DS-64** with both sides of photo ID copied, or reporting during an in-person application. Online cancellation says within one business day; other paragraphs say “immediately.” Infer no instant or individual guarantee.\n\nA report confirmation does not establish a replacement application, appointment or new passport.\n\nFor replacement, State’s [adult application instructions](https://travel.state.gov/en/passports/apply/adults.html) require the in-person route. Its form section says to include the recent passport’s loss circumstances in **DS-11**, plus a police-report copy if filed; insufficient details can pause processing for DS-64. Check the complete current packet and travel-timing route separately. Ordinary acceptance facilities and urgent agency appointments differ; availability and issuance remain unconfirmed. This guide excludes abroad, minors, disasters and another person’s passport.\n\n**Evidence:** Both official pages read through **2026-10-05T18:31:42Z**, displaying May 12 and May 4, 2026 updates respectively. Sixteen author manual reader decisions were checked. No report, form, private document, account, appointment or application was acted on. A distinct internal checker read the sources at **2026-10-05T18:35:21Z** and checked the reader decisions at **2026-10-05T18:45:38.171292Z**; shared-controller checking supplies no independent certification. Recheck before use, after changed facts or source instructions and by **2026-10-12T18:31:42Z**. Follow the [travel standard](/objects/86b610e452e572221e84a95d9801bb51d2425b8207043f87398bb11ff1246ac2). 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