lost passport

flakey21

hi guys

i lost my passport and im heading away on the 28 of march.
can i get my passport threw an-post or do i have to go up the the passport office?? any info would be very grateful!!


:DFLAKEY:D

Berty

I just filled in a passport form today and there is a section on it for lost passports.

The passport office will give you a passport for 3 years just in case yours turns up and if it does not you will then be given a 10 year passport.

Get it done tomorrow and you will have your passport back in 10 working days guaranteed.*

*Guaranteed was the phrase the guy in the post office said to me today.

Make sure to bring your birth certificate with you and another other form of ID and a black pen. You must fill in the last section in black ink and the Garda nor myself had one. :mad:

flakey21

Berty wrote: »

I just filled in a passport form today and there is a section on it for lost passports.

The passport office will give you a passport for 3 years just in case yours turns up and if it does not you will then be given a 10 year passport.

Get it done tomorrow and you will have your passport back in 10 working days guaranteed.*

*Guaranteed was the phrase the guy in the post office said to me today.

Make sure to bring your birth certificate with you and another other form of ID and a black pen. You must fill in the last section in black ink and the Garda nor myself had one. :mad:

hi berty

so would i be bettre getting it done in the passprt office itself or an-post?

Berty

flakey21 wrote: »

hi berty

so would i be bettre getting it done in the passprt office itself or an-post?

An Post will charge you €8.50 and will deliver it to them the next morning by express post. Depending on where you live you can head to Dublin or Cork but you wont be given one the same day unless you can prove your flight leaves within 48 hours(which it doesnt).

Whether its of benefit to save €8.50 from the post office to spend twice that in Petrol/Diesel/Taxi's etc is another question entirely. :cool:

You will get it back in 10 working days. Im flying to Australia on the 1st April and Im truly confident it will be returned by then.

God damn this rigmorole(sp) every ten years. :mad::rolleyes:

anladmór

are they not meant to be issuing new eu id cards or whatever?

mumhaabu

A National ID card would be of no use to us even within the EU as neither Ireland or the UK is a member of the Schengen Agreement meaning we will still need passports to visit the continent.

And if Ireland were to the join the Schengen Agreement it would mean that our common travel area with the UK would cease meaning Irish Citizens would the ironically need a passport to even visit Northern Ireland as every time you head to Newry etc. you are crossing an International land border.

However if the UK were to also join Schengen then both Brits and Irish could travel passportless (with National ID instead) to all the other member areas of the EU bar Romania and Bulgaria who have restrictions imposed on them and they restrict likewise.

Long and short of it Passports will be entricable part of Irish travelling life of a long time yet to come as hell will more than likely freeze over first before the UK signs up to Schengen and their is a better chance of them withdrawing from the EU first:eek:

Munster Gal

I applied for a passport for my son last Tuesday in Cork and they said it would be posted out on the 13th March at the latest so you should have loads of time. The Garda signed the form and photos with a blue pen and I was afraid they wouldn't accept it which is why I went to the passport office but they said it was fine!

flakey21

thanks for all the info i got it sorted 2 day

Berty

Munster Gal wrote: »

The Garda signed the form and photos with a blue pen and I was afraid they wouldn't accept it which is why I went to the passport office but they said it was fine!

I guess its probably so girlies dont use glitter pens or purple pens. I personally thought it was down to a computer reading the application forms but now that I think about it, its not as though they would be receiving hundreds of applications per day.