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  • #52
    May76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭May76


    Hi,

    I lodged my son's passport application using Passport Express on 25th Feb. I rang the Passport Office today and was told it hasn't even been checked and they can't give ANY idea as to projected timescale. We need it before 26th March and I'm worried in case it comes back with a query or something, as I don't think we'll have any hope at all then.

    Have others had any good/bad experiences?

    Thanks.

    Very useful post here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=74152045&postcount=1942

    Read that before posting.

    Mod Warning:

    The onus is on each individual to ensure your passport is up to date when you plan your travel and also to ensure that your application for a passport is properly completed. There is no point coming on here for a moan about things that are within your control.

    If you want to have a rant, go elsewhere. Otherwise please just stick to the questions you want to ask.


  • #53
    hobochris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,164 ✭✭✭hobochris


    the Travel section might be better for answers.


  • #54
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    Emergency passport maybe?


  • #55
    May76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭May76


    Hobochris,

    Thank you. I had a hard time figuring out how to start a new thread. Not entirely sure how I ended up posting in Motors! It looks like you've moved it to travel? I think? Sorry, am new to this.


  • #56
    BuffyBot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    The Passport Office website is currently stating
    # The 10 day guarantee for receipt of applications submitted through the Passport Express service provided by An Post and the Royal Mail is suspended until further notice.

    # Passports received through these services will be processed on a first come first served basis. Applications submitted by Passport Express are currently being processed between 10 and 15 days of receipt.

    Emergency passport issuing won't really be an option
    # It will not be possible to fast-track any application other than in a case of genuine family emergency, in which case proof will be required that travel is necessitated by the death, illness or welfare of a family member. The issuing of passports in such emergencies is not affected by the industrial dispute.


  • #57
    allyb
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭allyb


    Hi you are not alone we to are in the same situation travelling on the 18th and waiting for a passport, when we applied the passport express was still saying 10 days so how they can change this without consideration to current applicatioin is crazy. I think a trip to the passport office will be required


  • #58
    schemingbohemia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,606 ✭✭✭schemingbohemia


    If you look at previous posts here you will see that while they are not guaranteeing the 10 business days anymore they are coming pretty close to achieving it still. For the OP I would think you'll definitely be fine, for allyb it would depend when you sent it in.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055844705


  • #59
    Anto123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47 ✭Anto123


    There seem to be alot of threads on here about passports and the Civil Service industrial action so I thought this might be helpful to some people.

    If you have lost your passport they count your application as a first time application. What this means is that even if you go in person to the passport office with proof of travel they are unable to rush your application. It will take at least (they can't even guarantee this) 10 working days to process.

    If you think you might have lost your passport, then apply early for a new one!


  • #60
    Cherrycola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,378 ✭✭✭Cherrycola


    Thanks to my thread being closed without an answer to my query! i have to use this thread.
    My situation is slightly different, and we cant get any information!

    My husband has run out of pages in his passport and needs to get a new one for an urgent business trip that requires a full page visa in his passport.
    He's based in the Middle East, so the a new appliction takes 4-6weeks from there, and that was without the current industrial action!
    Ive tried to ring the passport office all day yesterday and cant get through, engaged tone all day!!
    Ive emailed them and heard nothing back.

    He needs to know if he flys home and goes to the passport office in person, will they issue him with a passport?!
    He will obviously have evidence of flight for an emergency passport, as he will be flying back out the next day, but are they even issuing emergency passports to anyone at the moment?!


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  • #61
    BuffyBot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    Only for urgent family medical emergencies/deaths etc, according to their website.


  • #62
    Anto123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47 ✭Anto123


    About 3 weeks ago the action was on and a friend of mine got a passport issued the next day after showing proof of travel for a holiday. You need to have the old passport to submit though.

    If it's important you should probably go in to the office in person (or get someone else to) and ask. You won't have much luck getting through to them on the phone.


  • #63
    Cherrycola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,378 ✭✭✭Cherrycola


    Thanks Anto123, thats what he is planning to do, he is going to have to fly home from the ME for 24hrs to go to the office, i was just afraid it would be a blanket No Way for anything other than family emergencies/deaths/illness, although, it is an emergency for us, cos if he cant travel for business, he doesnt get paid, and we are broke....our bills wont wait for the passport office to get their act together.

    Fingers crossed it wont be a wasted journey home for him, and a very expensive passport application at that! :rolleyes:


  • #64
    Alonso69
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭Alonso69


    Cherrycola wrote: »
    Thanks Anto123, thats what he is planning to do, he is going to have to fly home from the ME for 24hrs to go to the office, i was just afraid it would be a blanket No Way for anything other than family emergencies/deaths/illness, although, it is an emergency for us, cos if he cant travel for business, he doesnt get paid, and we are broke....our bills wont wait for the passport office to get their act together.

    Fingers crossed it wont be a wasted journey home for him, and a very expensive passport application at that! :rolleyes:

    Hi, i work in passport office. I would advice your husband do NOT fly home as he will NOT get his passport. its taking 12-15 days at the moment and as BuffyBot stated medical emergencies/deaths only :)


  • #65
    BennyLava
    Closed Accounts Posts: 205 ✭✭BennyLava


    Where did the post I replied to goto :confused:


  • #66
    mikedragon32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,939 ✭✭✭mikedragon32


    Folks, stick to the topic... Save the rants for elsewhere.

    I've locked one thread already due to a rant by it's op and deleted a couple of posts from here. The merits or lack of same of the work to rule are not for this forum. This thread is about what services are available or withdrawn in the passport office.

    Next person trying to drag the thread off topic will get a ban.


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  • #67
    cailinoBAC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭cailinoBAC


    Not a rant, just looking for information. My passport is up on 25th May. I’ve been aware of this, but haven’t had the chance to apply for a new one in the past months because I have always needed it. For instance, going to an interview in Gibraltar last week. I’ve now been offered the job and would be looking to go before Easter. What is the best thing for me to do? The last time I got a passport I was living in Germany, but got my new passport in Luxembourg, which was fine as I could wait for it and didn’t need the passport to cross Schengen borders. But I’ll be living in Spain but crossing the border every day to Gibraltar so I’ll need it every day. Would this be seen as urgent enough?


  • #68
    BuffyBot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    No - as has been advised, medical emergencies/family deaths etc are the only things getting priority right now.


  • #69
    RunSwift
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭RunSwift


    In passport office today and told by officers that I will more than likely be refused travel on my current passport. Not in that bad of state but got wet and the photograph is lifting.

    So have to get a new passport. travelling on 24th and the earliest they could guarantee was the 29th. The woman did say it may be ready a few days earlier but she didn't think as early as the 23rd.

    Just wondering (out of sheer desperation) if anyone was in a similar situation and if they received their passport early?


  • #70
    mopsey
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭mopsey


    I sent in my passport before the industrial action upped and have since been told by 2 different people in the office that it won't be ready in time for flying out. It will take minimum 15 days, and with Patrick's day, day 15 is the day I fly out. I contacted the office and AN POST the day I was submitting as I had heard there was a 'Go Slow' on, but they both assured me they were still guaranteeing the service. I paid the extra for the service and 2 days later they announce this stoppage.

    I needed to get it updated as there wasn't 6 months left on it. I was told from the office, we're really sorry but it won't be done, and you're powerless, there's nothing that can be done to get this in time.

    I had to use my passport in Feb so was unable to send it any earlier. I am losing out on a big holiday which has been planned for some time, it is a big expense and my travel insurance will not cover this. Were going to be down well over 1.5 thousand euro each with flights etc, ruining it for my mother and I.

    I can't get my old passport back even...


  • #71
    Cherrycola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,378 ✭✭✭Cherrycola


    [snip]

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0316/passportoffice.html


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  • #72
    mikedragon32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,939 ✭✭✭mikedragon32


    Cherrycola infracted. Pointless comment removed.


  • #73
    I Drink It Up!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭I Drink It Up!


    Hi there.

    I went to the effort of travelling all the way to Dublin Airport after the FIASCO in Molesworth street this morning.

    I explained I was getting a flight from Dublin to London and that the reservation email made mention of the ID required, specifically Passport, Drivers Licence, and......"bus pass". They said the Bus Pass was fine on Aer Lingus flights from Dublin to London.

    I went back into Dublin Bus and paid €3.50 for a plastic ID with my name and photo on it.

    Is it really the case that I can travel to the UK on this?

    It is this kind of ID:

    Photo-Id.jpg

    I also applied for an age card from the Gardai...but they said they will be 3 weeks getting it sent out. Jaysus.


  • #74
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    I thought you needed a passport now?


  • #75
    kensutz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,197 ✭✭✭kensutz


    Won't have a hope with that bus pass


  • #76
    I Drink It Up!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭I Drink It Up!


    Nah spoke to two Aer Lingus employees and they both said that the Passport was not essential.

    So just what do they mean by a "bus pass"??

    :confused::confused:

    Thanks.


  • #77
    Boston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,163 ✭✭✭✭Boston


    That isn't a bus pass, thats a CIE ID and will not do since the information you provide is not validated against any other source, such as birth cert.


  • #78
    I Drink It Up!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭I Drink It Up!


    Boston wrote: »
    That isn't a bus pass, thats a CIE ID and will not do since the information you provide is not validated against any other source, such as birth cert.

    Okay so how do I get the bus pass?

    Is that only for OAP?

    Thanks again.


  • #79
    Boston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,163 ✭✭✭✭Boston


    Drugies, the disabled, and old people.


  • #80
    I Drink It Up!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭I Drink It Up!


    Boston wrote: »
    Drugies, the disabled, and old people.

    Okay. Marvellous. Thanks.


  • #81
    BuffyBot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    Aer Lingus wrote:
    1. Passport 2. Drivers licence with photo 3. International student card 4. National ID card
    5. Bus pass with photo 6. Work ID with photo

    Any of the above. What you're getting from Dublin Bus is NOT a bus pass - they mean something issued by the Department of Social and Famly Affairs.


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  • #82
    I Drink It Up!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭I Drink It Up!


    BuffyBot wrote: »
    Any of the above. What you're getting from Dublin Bus is NOT a bus pass - they mean something issued by the Department of Social and Famly Affairs.

    Can't get a passport because in a country with 400,000 unemployed some grots in the Civil Service have decided they aren't being paid enough.

    Don't have a motor, hence no licence.

    Not a student...am an unemployed labourer trying to get to London for 24 hours in April.

    Don't have a bus pass and just applied for ID from the Guards, who say they need 3 weeks.

    Now, I will try the grots on Molesworth St again on Thursday. Suffice it to say there will be a queue like the sales.

    Suppose that fails...I need to be in London for my sisters wedding. Is there any sailing+train or something like that I can get done with no passport?

    Cheers, and thanks for all the replies.;)


  • #83
    Boston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,163 ✭✭✭✭Boston


    The garda "ID" is not a national ID, it's an age card and you cannot travel on it. You best bet is to do the mail order passport.


  • #84
    mikedragon32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,939 ✭✭✭mikedragon32


    Boston wrote: »
    The garda "ID" is not a national ID, it's an age card and you cannot travel on it. You best bet is to do the mail order passport.
    That service is suspended due to the industrial action, Boston.


  • #85
    Boston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,163 ✭✭✭✭Boston


    You could be check though, going into england or coming back. You may end up being held by customs.


  • #86
    eth0_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭eth0_


    I Drink It Up! wrote: »
    Can't get a passport because in a country with 400,000 unemployed some grots in the Civil Service have decided they aren't being paid enough.

    :rolleyes: That's not why they've been striking at all. Perhaps you should learn the facts before you go slagging them off?

    "The Passport Office on Molesworth Street in Dublin is expected to reopen on Thursday after it was closed due to flooding.

    Staff at the office discovered the flooding, which was caused by a burst pipe, when they turned up for work this morning."

    You have plenty of time to get a passport before April. If you decide not to fly, there's a Rail & Sail service (about 40 euro each way) to London.


  • #87
    I Drink It Up!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭I Drink It Up!


    eth0_ wrote: »
    :rolleyes: That's not why they've been striking at all. Perhaps you should learn the facts before you go slagging them off?

    "The Passport Office on Molesworth Street in Dublin is expected to reopen on Thursday after it was closed due to flooding.

    Staff at the office discovered the flooding, which was caused by a burst pipe, when they turned up for work this morning."

    You have plenty of time to get a passport before April. If you decide not to fly, there's a Rail & Sail service (about 40 euro each way) to London.

    Yes, I was outside the office today, at 07:30........so there. And they were all inside, having a laugh, except for one desperate chap, with trembly hands and spittle on his chin whom they sent out to talk to us? Were you there? Well then. :rolleyes:


  • #88
    I Drink It Up!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭I Drink It Up!


    Mr.S wrote: »
    Get the bus to London from Dublin, no ID is checked on ferrys. Think its something like 55euro 1 way?

    https://194.106.151.95/EurolinesPublic/EurolinesPublicWebApp/EuroPublicTravelDetails.aspx

    Takes about 12hours though.

    Cheers, and thanks for your helpful reply. It is starting to look like that option more and more. Many thanks Mr.S:D


  • #89
    allyb
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭allyb


    Hi all,

    For me its been 15 days waiting for passport express and still awaiting processing.
    lost 2.5K today had to cancel holiday at last min.

    All the services still remain but the turn around times for passports is the prob.

    With more industrial action inevitable...one could question will the backlogs ever get cleared??

    :mad:
    allyb


  • #90
    eth0_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭eth0_


    I Drink It Up! wrote: »
    Yes, I was outside the office today, at 07:30........so there. And they were all inside, having a laugh, except for one desperate chap, with trembly hands and spittle on his chin whom they sent out to talk to us? Were you there? Well then. :rolleyes:

    Why were you there at 7.30am when the passport office doesn't open until 9.30...?

    They also weren't striking today, they were closed due to flooding, as announced on RTE news.

    When they did/do strike, it's because the lower paid workers in the offices are getting screwed over with pay cuts, while management stay on the same level of pay. I think they're perfectly entitled to strike for one afternoon a week and i'd do the same if I were in their position.

    As I said previously, you have plenty of time to get to the passport office before April!


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  • #91
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,490 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0317/1224266441909.html
    Passport Office shut by flooding
    ALISON HEALY

    DISRUPTION: THE PASSPORT Office on Dublin’s Molesworth Street was closed to the public yesterday after extensive floods caused by a burst pipe.

    Staff reporting for work in the morning discovered the flooding. The office will stay shut today, as is normal for St Patrick’s Day, but it was unclear yesterday whether it would reopen tomorrow.

    A spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs said it was awaiting advice from the OPW on reopening the public office.

    He said the closure of the public office would not cause major disruption, as most passports were processed in Balbriggan. The Passport Office in Cork was also processing applications, he said.

    People who expected to collect passports from Molesworth Street yesterday were redirected to Hainault House, at 69-71 St Stephen’s Green. The spokesman said this advice would apply tomorrow if the Passport Office was still shut.

    He said any citizen who needed a passport “on a genuine emergency basis” should report to Iveagh House, 80 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin. He said those awaiting passports should check the department’s dfa.ie website and the media for updates.

    The closure follows disruption to passport services due to industrial action. Staff protesting over public sector pay cuts withdrew from public counters on a number of occasions in recent weeks.

    Fine Gael spokesman on foreign affairs Billy Timmins said the industrial action at the office had been “increasingly frustrating” for hundreds of people. “Today’s flooding emergency has added to the chaos and the contingency measures put in place by the Department of Foreign Affairs are simply not good enough,” he said.


  • #92
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,490 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    http://www.dfa.ie/home/index.aspx?id=83377
    Statement from the Department of Foreign Affairs on Passport Office

    16/03/2010

    Statement from the Department of Foreign Affairs on Passport Office

    Due to extensive flooding, the Passport Office, Molesworth Street, Dublin 2, has been closed.

    Any citizen who is to collect a passport today can collect it from Hainault House, 69 - 71 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, from 11.00 this morning. Any citizen who needs a passport on a genuine emergency basis should report to Iveagh House, 80 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, where an emergency passport service is in operation.

    Ends+++

    Press Office

    Department of Foreign Affairs

    16 March 2010


  • #93
    BuffyBot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    I don't know why you were going to the Passport Office anyway. They won't be able to help. The only emergency/expidited passports they're issuing are for urgent family medical emergencies/deaths - so all the queueing in the world won't help.


  • #94
    Theta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭Theta


    BuffyBot wrote: »
    I don't know why you were going to the Passport Office anyway. They won't be able to help. The only emergency/expidited passports they're issuing are for urgent family medical emergencies/deaths - so all the queueing in the world won't help.

    Nope you can get an emergency passport if you are flying within 24 hours or something. A mate got one there about 3 weeks ago because he couldnt find his passport the day of his flight!

    Anyway why did you leave it late to get a passport anyway. It takes 2 - 3 weeks with the post office and thats one of the quickest ways to get one!!


  • #95
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The passport office was closed yesterday due to flooding, not striking. They wouldn't have been opening at 7.30 anyway.

    Why not just go to the post office and do a 10 day express post passport? you'll have it by the end of the month.


  • #96
    mikedragon32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,939 ✭✭✭mikedragon32


    Already covered in the passport office thread.


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  • #97
    penexpers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,038 ✭✭✭penexpers


    Mr.S wrote: »
    Get the bus to London from Dublin, no ID is checked on ferrys. Think its something like 55euro 1 way?

    https://194.106.151.95/EurolinesPublic/EurolinesPublicWebApp/EuroPublicTravelDetails.aspx

    Takes about 12hours though.

    Last time I went via ferry, there was a border control at Holyhead where they look for either passport or drivers license.


  • #98
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,118 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Boston wrote: »
    You could be check though, going into england or coming back. You may end up being held by customs.

    They definitely won't be stopping the bus going across the Severn Bridge for passport checks. ;)

    You do not require any form of ID to cross the Irish - UK border if you are an Irish or UK citizen. The Aer Lingus/ Ryanair requirements for various forms of ID are to do with airport "security" and them getting fined for people that may then get refused at the port of entry to wherever they fly you to. That is not an issue on the ferry and no form of ID is needed, unless your not originally from round these parts.


  • #99
    MistyCheese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭MistyCheese


    I've travelled Dublin to London with just work ID. No date of birth on it, the information was pretty much just my name and employee number. I've also sucessfully used gym ID, which doesn't have any more info than the work ID. The only problem was coming back, they mentioned my surname "wasn't Irish" so I showed my Social Welfare card and they let me go.

    I'd suggest, if you haven't already, ringing Air Lingus and asking them what they would accept as ID. Also try and get the persons name in case you need it later. This way you get a definate answer and if anyone on the day questions you, you can say that you rang and were informed that X, Y or Z would be sufficent.


  • #100
    Boston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,163 ✭✭✭✭Boston


    robinph wrote: »
    They definitely won't be stopping the bus going across the Severn Bridge for passport checks. ;)

    You do not require any form of ID to cross the Irish - UK border if you are an Irish or UK citizen. The Aer Lingus/ Ryanair requirements for various forms of ID are to do with airport "security" and them getting fined for people that may then get refused at the port of entry to wherever they fly you to. That is not an issue on the ferry and no form of ID is needed, unless your not originally from round these parts.

    Mate of mine was stopped and asked for ID coming back from Wales on the ferry at Dublin port. He protested and yer man let him back no problem.


  • #101
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,118 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Boston wrote: »
    Mate of mine was stopped and asked for ID coming back from Wales on the ferry at Dublin port. He protested and yer man let him back no problem.

    Yep, they may ask you for ID, but there is no requirement to show any for crossing the Irish-UK border. You do not have to have any form of ID on you for any reason just going about your day to day wanderings in the UK, fairly similar in Ireland except that you need to have a driving license on you if your driving a car which you don't in the UK.


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