Contact Us

The Office of Children’s Issues is available to answer your questions regarding preventing and resolving international parental child abductions during regular business hours (8:15 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. ET). Our office is the U.S. Central Authority for the Hague Abduction Convention. Please contact us at any time at the number below to report an Abduction in Progress.

By Phone

1-888-407-4747 (from the U.S. and Canada)
+ 1 202-501-4444 (from outside the United States)

By Email

Questions regarding preventing international parental child abductions:
PreventAbduction1@state.gov

For general abduction questions:
AbductionQuestions@state.gov

By Mail

United States Department of State
CA/OCS/CI
2201 C. St., NW
SA-17; 9th Floor
Washington, DC 20522-1709

You can send information to enroll your child into the Children’s Passport Issuance Alert Program (CPIAP), Hague Abduction Convention applications and documents, among other correspondence, to this mailing address. However, we can process your child’s CPIAP enrollment more quickly if you email your documents.   

By Fax

Abduction Fax: Unable to receive faxes at this time