Let’s learn about how to look up and confirm your passport number. A passport is used as a means to prove yourself abroad. Also, your passport number is often required when purchasing items on overseas sites. It’s not difficult to check your passport number and expiration date, so let’s proceed slowly.여권번호 조회
From here, we will check how to check your passport number.
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How to check passport number
To check passport information, you can obtain a passport information certificate, passport information authenticity verification, passport issuance history inquiry, etc., and the simplest way to obtain it is passport issuance history inquiry.
1. Access the Government 24 website
Passport number inquiry
Go to the Government 24 website. Search for passport issuance history inquiry in the homepage search bar and select it.
2. Inquiry/Issuance
Passport number inquiry
From Inquiry/Issuance, select Passport issuance history inquiry in the Inquiry/Issuance tab.
3. Identity verification
Passport number inquiry
Enter your name, resident registration number, and automatic entry prevention characters in that order, then select the identity verification button.
4. Check passport information
After completing identity verification, you can check all of your passport information. At this time, you can check detailed information by clicking on the passport number.
If the passport has expired or has lost its validity due to loss, return, etc., ‘validity’ is indicated with N.
Government 24 website
Passport lost/acquired/damaged
If you lose your passport, before reporting the loss, please access the National Police Agency’s Lost and Found Portal (www.lost112.go.kr) and use the [Detailed Search for Found Items] service to check whether you have obtained your passport.
Your passport is the only identification document that proves your identity when traveling abroad and has a very important function, so it must be carefully managed to avoid losing it.
If you lose your passport, please immediately report the loss to the nearest local government passport agency. If you lose your passport while traveling abroad, report the loss of your passport to the nearest embassy or consulate general and receive a travel document or single-entry passport.
A passport that is reported lost is immediately invalidated and cannot be used even if it is recovered.
Report lost passport
Report on passport acquisition
If you have acquired another person’s passport, you can leave it at the nearest local government passport office, police station, or passport department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Passport acquisition inquiry
The passport holder did not report the loss of the acquired passport to the passport issuing agency, so the validity period remains, but the passport is stored and managed by the passport issuing agency. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs posts the acquired passport information on the website and allows the person who lost the passport to enter their personal information directly. After checking your records, you can check whether you have obtained a passport.
After losing your passport, you can only check whether you have acquired a valid passport and the loss has not been reported directly to the passport issuing agency by the passport holder.
Passport acquisition inquiry
Passport expiration expiration advance notification service
The passport expiration expiration advance notification service is a service that notifies the passport holder of the fact that the passport is scheduled to expire through a text message. The text message is sent 6 months before the expiration date. Additionally, you can opt out of receiving or unblocking the ‘Passport Expiration Expiration Advance Notification Service’ sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to your mobile phone.
Advance notification of passport expiration date
We have summarized how to look up and confirm your passport number.