travel document
If you have lost your Panamanian passport or it has expired and you need to travel to Panama, you will need to apply for a travel document. International regulations require everyone traveling internationally to bear a valid passport or a travel document even if they are traveling to their home country.
The travel document may be issued by our Consulate within 6 to 8 business days. Before applying to a Travel Document, please keep in mind that this travel document is only valid for 1 month.
Note: 1-According to U.S. regulations in order to leave the country, any person traveling abroad must have a valid passport or a travel document. This travel document (SALVO CONDUCTO) is only valid for traveling to Panama, it would not be validate for traveling to other countries.
2- For minor request, please send an email to consular@embassyofpanama.org, where the authorization form for the issuance of Travel document for minors will be sent.
Requirements:
• Complete the application and you must sign it and endorse it in the presence of a notary public. Request for a Travel Document (click to download). The letter must include the applicant’s e-mail address, mailing address, and telephone number.
Please include date of travel in the form.
• Copy of Passport. If the passport was lost, fill out the Form and sign it in the presence of a notary public Report of Lost Passport Form (click to download). If not applying in person, this form must be notarized and authenticated by a Panamanian Consulate for a $30.00 fee in a money order made out to: CONSULATE OF PANAMA.
• Copy of cédula.
• Two passport pictures 2x2 form
PAYMENT METHODS:
1- The first payment will be made through a money order for $ 48.00 addressed to the CONSULATE OF PANAMA, which will be sent with the required documents.
2- The second payment will be made when your TRAVEL DOCUMENT is approved. Once your Travel Document is authorized by the Passport Authority, you will be sent an email to make the payment online through the website of the Panama Passport Authority. Cost: B /. 30.00 (thirty balboas).
** Please write clearly your e-mail in the application, so that you can receive the payment request.
• Please include a self-addressed prepaid envelope for the return of the Travel Document. We recommend you use Express Mail, Priority Mail or Fedex to avoid delays.
Please write in clear print "TRAVEL DOCUMENT" on the outside of the envelope that you are mailing to us so we can process it faster.
PLEASE SEND THE DOCUMENTS REQUESTED TO THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS:
CONSULADO DE PANAMA
2862 McGILL TERRACE, N.W.
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20008