Booking - No Passports

Well here is another problem, Booking Artist who tell you they have Passports to Travel when they have never Traveled period and they were waiting to get booked before getting a Passport, well waiting to get booked to get your passport may seem to be a logical thing to do however they did not consider the time frame to get the passport, so now I have a promoter asking me to please send the passports so he can purchase the Visas to enter and exit that country, but these artist wasted time and ordered passports when I sold a gig. This is driving me nuts, I am about to lose this gig of booking 5 acts because all of them don't have passports. God why me...