A temporary travel document may be issued, without a standard application, to an alien who departs or is obliged to depart from Estonia without the right of return if he or she does not hold a valid travel document or a certificate of return issued by a foreign state.

A temporary travel document does not grant the holder thereof the right to protection by a foreign mission of Estonia unless otherwise provided by law or a treaty.

If the Estonian temporary travel document has become unusable, has been destroyed, has expired or has been lost while staying in a foreign state, an Estonian permit of return may be issued to an alien for return to Estonia, if the alien resides in the Republic of Estonia on the basis of a residence permit.

[5] The Estonia Passport includes the following data: The information page ends with the Machine Readable Zone.

Starting from June 2009, all applicants for an Estonian temporary travel document are required to provide their fingerprints to be stored on the biometric chip in their passports.