Elections Announcement

If you are registered to vote from abroad in Lebanon’s upcoming 2022 parliamentary elections and your Lebanese passport is expired, a mechanism has now been established that allows you to use your expired passport in order to cast your vote for a fee of $10. If your Lebanese passport or Lebanese ID card are valid, this announcement does not apply to you.

 

This procedure can only be done for expired machine-readable or biometric passports (i.e., the navy blue models); it cannot be done for non-machine readable passports (i.e., the burgundy and older models). Note that this procedure does not renew your expired passport; it simply validates your expired passport as a form of identification for election day. It will be noted on your passport that it is “strictly used for voting.”

 

This process can be done in person or by mail at the Embassy of Lebanon in Washington, DC and at the General Consulates in New York, Detroit, and Los Angeles. It can also be done at your respective polling station on the day of elections (May 8th), the locations of which will be announced at a later date. However, we urge all interested applicants to submit their requests well before election day in order to ensure that the process goes smoothly.

What documents are required?

Your expired machine-readable or biometric passport (navy blue).
– Your individual extract (ikhraj qayd ifradi), regardless of the issuance date.
– A $10 money order made out to “The Embassy of Lebanon” or the respective General Consulate.

What do you need to do?

Check to see which consular jurisdiction you fall under (see below) and send an e-mail to the corresponding e-mail address in order to first ensure that your name is registered on the electoral list, as this process is only available for those who are registered to vote in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

 

If you fall under the Embassy’s jurisdiction, send an e-mail to: [email protected]

 

This jurisdiction covers residents of:

Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, DC, American Samoa, Guam, Jamaica, Midway Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

If you fall under the New York Consulate’s jurisdiction, send an e-mail to: [email protected]

 

This jurisdiction covers residents of:

 

Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

 

If you fall under the Detroit Consulate’s jurisdiction, send an e-mail to: [email protected]

This jurisdiction covers residents of:

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.

If you fall under the Los Angeles Consulate’s jurisdiction, send an e-mail to:[email protected]