Do you not have any contact in the U.S. who’d be willing to receive them and then ship them on?

Huh, I was not aware. Does that end when they turn 18?

I think it’s also faster and easier to get a NEW passport if you already had one.

A young friend moved across U.S. Nobody had a clue where his birth certificate was. Procedure to get a duplicate was complicated. But we could use his expired passport, which implicitly confirms that U.S. government has already seen ID documents, to apply for a new passport, which he could use to open a bank account etc.

There’s obviously a cutoff for expiration—don’t remember if it was five years or what. But having initiated that means the next passport should be easier.

Or “lazy” or “ill-disciplined” ☹️