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“Can I board an international flight if I lost my green card?”You haven’t mentioned where you might be flying to.If you will be returning to the US, the airline staff will not board you if you don’t have proof that you will be admitted: either a valid US nonimmigrant or immigrant visa, a green card or a valid ESTA/VWP clearance.If you haven’t proof that you will be admitted, then if you aren’t admitted, the airline will be responsible for returning you to where you came from, as well as paying a substantial fine. They don’t want to be subjected to this, so will probably refuse to let you board.The fact that you will claim that you lost your card but really, truly are an LPR will not convince them. So even if, if you were to arrive, CBP might take you aside, interview you, and admit you anyway means nothing; you would have to get there first, and the airline won’t risk the carrying you at all.See what USCIS advises:“If you lose your Green Card or reentry permit or it is stolen or destroyed while you are abroad, you may need to file a Form I-131A, Application for Travel Document (Carrier Documentation). This carrier documentation will allow an airline or other transportation carrier to board a lawful permanent resident bound for the United States without the carrier being penalized. For more information, please see the Form I-131A, Application for Travel Document (Carrier Documentation) page.”

You may indeed travel outside the US for nine months, as long as you maintain your US address as your permanent residence, and can convince a CBP officer of that when you return.The limit is one year without a re-entry permit see ( I-131, Application for Travel Document ), two years with that permit.

You can get a Canadian white passport by losing your regular blue passport. A white passport is a temporary passport issued to Canadian citizens outside Canada who require passports but their regular passport application is being processed. It must be exchanged for a regular blue passport at your earliest convenience.Canadian passports are issued in a variety of colours depending on who is carrying them. Navy passports are issued to citizens for occasional travel, such as vacations and business trips, red passports are issued to diplomats, and green passports are issued to people representing the Canadian government on official business, including Members of Parliament, provincial cabinet members, public servants, and Canadian Forces members who are posted abroad.An American “white passport” is not really a passport, and is not really white, it is a permit to reenter the country if you are out of it for too long. American permanent residents can leave the US for up to one year without risking losing their permanent resident status. A white passport allows them to enter the country again after they have been out of the country for up to two years instead, prolonging the time by an additional year. It isn’t really white, It is a passport-like booklet with a blue-green cover with the words "TRAVEL DOCUMENT" on the front.The US passport has seen several changes in colour, from red to green and now blue.Countries can issue passports in any colour they want, and while white passports are rare, they do exist. An Indian white passport is issued to government officials traveling out of the country on business.The new Norwegian passports are particularly colourful, and if you shine the passport’s pages under ultraviolet light, the Northern Lights will appear as iridescent trails on the paper. Norway issues white passports to immigrants.Canadian passports can also be quite colourful if you illuminate them under ultraviolet light. This is an anti-counterfeiting measure.