A solicitor's signature required over this weekend

oyinolalekan

i'm going travelling tomorrow for a month and want to submit my irish passport form before i go but i've been searching since friday for a solicitor to witness it but couldn't get anyone on friday in the office from about 5pm. is it cuz of the bank holiday or is that it that solicitors here in Dublin have it handy?

well.....i still have hope of getting it signed by any random solicitor before i go. so if there is any solicitor out there that would be so kind enough to sign it for me today or tomorrow or anyone who knows somebody that would. please contact me and willm arrange a meeting.

i'm very keen on posting it before i jet off so please someone.

mikemac

Are you sure a garda can't do this for you?
I know I took my passport application to the local station

oyinolalekan

No i dont think so cuz the form says must be witnessed by notary public or commissioner for oaths or a peace commissioner or solicitor. think my form is slightly different cuz it's a naturalisation passport application and not a typical renewal form.... thanks anyways mike

Hooch

oyinolalekan wrote: »

No i dont think so cuz the form says must be witnessed by notary public or commissioner for oaths or a peace commissioner or solicitor. think my form is slightly different cuz it's a naturalisation passport application and not a typical renewal form.... thanks anyways mike

Are you an Irish citizen??

oyinolalekan

hey nice guy alwayz....just said i'm applying for a passport by naturalisation..... it means i'm not irish but been leaving here for donkey years and now i'm applying for an irish passport.....all implied

Hooch

oyinolalekan wrote: »

hey nice guy alwayz....just said i'm applying for a passport by naturalisation..... it means i'm not irish but been leaving here for donkey years and now i'm applying for an irish passport.....all implied

Sorry just trying to get my head around it. Must be a solicitor so, cant ever remeember seeing one of those applications.

Try contacting your local Garda station and ask them for a peace commishioner....they should be able to help as we use them all the time

dermot_sheehan

Naturalization timeline is about 23 months at the moment and you must maintain residence in ireland for all that time. If you leave your application is considered abandonded. Your life details including revenue/social welfare/criminal/immigration history will be gone through so it would be difficult to pretend to be living in ireland for the two years while the application is being processed.

nuac

solicitors are entitled to time off the same as anyone else but as a solicitor back working in my office on a Sunday to deal with some urgent matters I do not appreciate poster's suggestion that solicitors have it easy. All over the country solicitors make themselves available for emergencies over weekends. Typical situations are attendance at Garda stations to advise people arrested, or at a hospital or house to make an urgent will. Gardai and hospitals have the home numbers and mobile numbers of solicitors who will respond to such requests.

You have left your request rather late, and as Gabhain 7 says this form may be more complicated than you think. Contact your local Garda station who should be able to put you in touch with a solicitor.

dats_right

OP, the question must be asked why did you leave it until 5pm on the friday of a bank holiday weekend to try get this sorted if it is so urgent? I personally wouldn't be inclined to go out of my way to help in such a situation unless there was a genuine emergency, which this doesn't seem to be, and a very good reason why you didn't sort it earlier when you knew that you would be travelling abroad.

oyinolalekan

Geez... i must av under-estimated the power of the lil' assistance i sought.....not to worry guyz, i'm gonna leave it till i return. wats a month delay on my part going to do, if i have to wait 23 months to get a response anywayz. For those of you getting all worked up,.....yes i left it last minute, it's my fault... bite me....well wat can i say, i'm a very busy person, i had to work 50hrs or so last week (Again cuz i'm travelling abroad for a month n had to leave work in good order). n btw Gabhain7....who said anything about pretending to live here for 2yrs?....i'm only going away for a month!!!! i've lived here for 8yrs already, i think if i didn't intend to stay, would've left ages ago....dont u think?

Anywayz, all in all, i'm very grateful for all the information and a very special thanks for everyone that genuinely wanted to help and not just play the blame again. really apprecaite it.

McCrack

Read your opening post carefully and then think about where you posted it and the sort of people that might be regulars here and then go figure why you got some of the responses you did.

Anyway that said I've seen and heard far worse things said/done to lawyers.

oyinolalekan

Hi Mccrack... i said "couldn't get anyone on friday in the office from about 5pm. is it cuz of the bank holiday or is that it that solicitors here in Dublin have it handy?"......please tell me how exactly does that constitute "things been said/done to lawyers"....with the way ye are carryin on, u would think i actually said sum thing derogatory,....,if anything at all, i merely asked a question!!! oh boy, life is way too short for this kinda seriousness.

Sangre

Unfortunately you left it not only to bank holiday friday but to the last day before the courts closed for 2 months. This would have been way down on list of priorities for most solicitors.