Lost passport in Australia
Hello! I am a student in Australia and I lost my passport when coming back from India. The immigration people transferred my student visa on my old passport for now and said to get a new passport asap.
Now here are the list of problems:
Getting a new passport in Sydney is a mess and I gonna cost me a fortune which I can not really afford as a student.
Another option I am weighing in on is to go back to
India using my old passport on which they transferred the visa. But this passport of mine was marked as damaged by the Indian authorities since spilled some water on it once, but my main page is all intact and it is yet to expire. Is this a risky step I should take?
- Get an emergency certificate and go back to India and get a new passport there. But I have read that if you get an EC the passport psks asks a hell lot of questions and documents to get a new passport.
Please help me out here, I am really really confused on what to do now.
Thanks!