Quote Originally Posted by francois
Quote Originally Posted by Beachlover
Really,

Passports get lost all the time, no matter how careful people are. They can't not give you a passport just because you happened to have lost two of them. Losing 4 or 5 passports, maybe, but not 2.
While at the US Embassy in Bangkok I observed a youngish, student/backpacker type guy applying for a replacement passport. The clerk said "this is the 5th one you lost and no more replacements will be issued". He was given a one-way pass to leave Thailand and return to the USA. Maybe he was selling them?
That's possible. And in this case, I think restrictions can be justified.