Location: Worldwide
Subject: Travel to the United States on Expired U.S. Passports
If you are overseas and your U.S. passport expired on or after January 1, 2020, you may be able to use your expired passport to return directly to the United States until June 30, 2022.
You qualify to travel on your expired passport if all the following are true:
- You are a U.S. citizen.
- You are currently abroad seeking direct return to the United States.
- You are flying directly to the United States, a United States territory, or have only short-term transit (“connecting flights”) through a foreign country on your direct return to the United States or to a United States Territory.
- Your expired passport was originally valid for 10 years. Or, if you were 15 years of age or younger when the passport was issued, your expired passport was valid for five years.
- Your expired passport is undamaged.
- Your expired passport is unaltered.
- Your expired passport is in your possession.
You do not qualify to travel on your expired passport if:
- You wish to depart from the United States to an international destination.
- You are currently abroad seeking to travel to a foreign country for any length of stay longer than an airport connection en route to the United States or to a United States territory.
- Your expired passport was limited in validity.
- Your expired passport is a special issuance passport (such as a diplomatic, official, service, or no-fee regular passport).
- Your expired passport is damaged.
- Your expired passport is altered.
- Your expired passport is not in your possession.
Please see our U.S. Embassy Dili website for information on how to renew your passport.
Actions to Take for Travelers to the United States:
- All U.S. citizens are encouraged to enroll in the Department of State’s Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP) to receive messaging about health, safety, travel, and voting.
- Refer to the S. Embassy in Timor-Leste website for the latest Alerts and Messages for U.S. citizens.
- Consult the CDC website for the most up-to-date information related to COVID-19, including testing requirements to return to the United States.
- Visit the COVID-19 crisis page on travel.state.gov for the latest COVID-19-related travel information.
- Check with your airlines, cruise lines, or travel operators regarding any updated information about your travel plans and/or health restrictions.
- Visit the Department of Homeland Security’s website on the latest travel restrictions to the United States.
Assistance:
U.S. Embassy Dili, Timor-Leste
Avenida de Portugal,
Praia dos Coqueiros,
Dili, Timor-Leste
(+670) 330-2400, ext. 2026 (business hours)
(+670) 7723-1328 (after hours emergency)
State Department – Consular Affairs
(1)-888-407-4747 or (1)-202-501-4444
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