OP said:

So I don't think he said he needs his father's permission, it sounds like he needs a birth certificate or something like that to submit to get a new passport. I think a birth certificate is required even if you have held a passport previously, but I could be wrong.

Yes, you are wrong. Especially if born outside the US, it wouldn't help at all.

He needs to get in touch with the US embassy in Bern, end of story.

Tom

Actually, he's right. Proof of citizenship (i.e. a birth certificate - but in this case the certificate issued by the US consulate, not by the country of birth) isn't required for normal renewals, but it is required if your last passport was lost or stolen.

Okay so.. i was born in switzerland and i also grew up here.. my dad is american and that why i got the us-passport so i guess im also a us citizen...

I can not renew my passport because i lost my old one and i dont have my certificate of proof that i have the right to have a passport, i guess its one of this two:
- Certificate of Citizenship
- Consular Report of Birth Abroad

So my possibilities are to travel to the us with my swiss passport and the esta form and tell them at the us boarder that i am a us citizec so they will take fingerprints of me and will check in there systems that i am a us citizen,

ooor

that i travel to the us with my swiss passport and the esta form and hope that they will not see that i have a dual-citizenship..

Do i get that right?

Regards Nicholas

If you're a bona fide US Citizen you cannot be denied entry.

If you were born here, your certificate of birth of a US citizen abroad will be on record at the US embassy in Bern, contact them.

If you enter the US without a US passport, they may not let you leave until you get one!

Plus, if you enter illegally (which, for a US citizen means entering with anything except a US passport), they may deny issuing you one!

Tom

If you've only every lived here in Switzerland then everything is probably registered with the Embassy in Bern. You no longer need your father's permission for anything. Contact the Embassy and they will tell you what you need to do.

Otherwise just go to the US on your Swiss passport & keep your mouth shut about being an American citizen.

Good luck!

Phone US consulate for an appointment. Take your Swiss passport to the US Consulate in Zurich, to identify yourself. Take passport photos and enough cash.

Consulate
U.S. Consular Agency
American Citizen Service: Mo- Fr Besuchszeiten 10.00 - 13.00 Uhr
Dufourstrasse 101
8008 Zürich
Phone: 043 499 29 60
http://map.search.ch/zuerich/dufourstr.101

or maybe you have to go to Bern, phone for appointment,
Embassy
Amerikanische Botschaft
Sulgeneckstrasse 19
3005 Bern
P.O. Box
3001 Bern
Phone: 031 357 70 11
http://map.search.ch/bern/sulgeneckstr.19

Gonna be a interesting story, once our friend returns

Thank you all for the support..

I just called the embassy and made an appointment for tomorrow.. They said I juts have to bring the swiss passport and they can most probably find me in the their system since I got my last passport there as well.. Should work I guess?!

As much as I would love to just stay there if the won't let me back, I have to finish my studies in cold switzerland first

Good luck!

Just remember... no cell phones, no backpacks, etc etc etc or you'll find yourself walking back to your car or looking for a locker at the train station.

Eh. It ain't so cold here! I lived in a much colder part of the US. Finish yer studies then the world is yours.

Have fun!

you guys are probably gonna kill me, but i found my freakin passport!! thank you all for the help!

You better let the US embassy know

Congratulations on finding your passport, but as cannut said, indeed. If you've reported it lost or stolen already, then you definitely need to notify them that you have found it. Here's why:

Once you reported your passport lost, they enter into the system as such, so that if it is ever used by anyone, it will alarm as a lost/stolen passport to prevent someone who isn't you from being able to make a crossing on your document.

If that alarm remains in the system, it will cause a huge headache for you, because now officers (as this will be an Interpol alarm, it could be acknowledged at any airport you fly through) will have to verify your identity and whether or not you are the true bearer of the passport. It is also possible that the alarm may not be able to be removed before you travel.

My recommendation to you is that you continue to get a new passport if you did in fact report the old one as "lost". Now that you have found your "lost" passport, it will be even easier to get a new one and no birth certificate will be required.

Having the new passport will really save you a lot of potential hassles.

Oh dear! My wife and kids all have US passports and Canadian passports. When they go to the US, they use their Canadian passports. Have they been breaking the law for all these years?

Yes, they have been.

Tom