Getting a passport for our 4 month old daughter

pprendeville

Just want to find out what we'll need to get a passport for our 4 month old daughter? Is it just a matter of filling out a form that we can collect at the post office/garda station and submitting copies of our passports (parents), birth certs and daughter's birth cert? passport photos also? Anything else?

mikedragon32

All the info is on the form. You need a long form birth cert for the baby one of the parents passports, two photos (be sure to follow the guidelines) and just follow the instructions on the form, ensuring to get signatures witnessed. You can do the application by Passport Express too.

Padraig Mor

Bring the baba with you when getting the form witnessed. BTW you may find it surprisingly hard to get the photos properly to spec. I found it easier to lay our baby flat and take the pic from above....

TheNog

pprendeville wrote: »

Just want to find out what we'll need to get a passport for our 4 month old daughter? Is it just a matter of filling out a form that we can collect at the post office/garda station and submitting copies of our passports (parents), birth certs and daughter's birth cert? passport photos also? Anything else?

You have it there:

form filled out
long birth cert
photos
photo id for both parents


try to have both parents there cos page 3 has to be signed in front of the guard. the baby has to be there to verify the picture. passport is paid for at the post office.

mikedragon32

Only one parent is required to go along with the baby for the Garda part, both for the witness, unless he/she witnesses both indepentantly.

Good advice on the photo too. Putting baby down on a white blanket makes it much easier to get a proper photo.

pprendeville

I took a B&W picture of our daughter on a white blanket. Brought it into Boots in Jervis shopping centre and got it printed (6 in 1, 6 x 4) as a passport photo. Very handy.

Next up, must send off the completed app. form. Do I need to send off the original documents, i.e. our original passporta, daughter's original birth etc or will photocopies do. On the instructions it says everything has to be original. Will they send back original's if that's what we go with - surely.

gerire

mikedragon32 wrote: »

Only one parent is required to go along with the baby for the Garda part, both for the witness, unless he/she witnesses both indepentantly.

Good advice on the photo too. Putting baby down on a white blanket makes it much easier to get a proper photo.

You will find very few gardai willing to sign a child's passport form without both parents present;
The main reason is because nearly all people use the Garda as the witness

mikedragon32

I used a solicitor in my office to witness the signatures and a garda for the photo.

pprendeville

We got the passport the other day anyway. Handy enough in the end. Went to Finglas Garda Station and a young guard signed and witnessed the papers. he signed one of the passport photos. I took a black and white photo (which is what is recommended) on our daughter and printed it off in Boots in Jervis on a Kodak machine but I think it can be done in Finglas by just selecting to have the same picture printed 6 times on the same 4x6 photo. Much cheaper than getting a specific passport photo taken.

Had to send off my own passport and original birth cert as well.

The bio page is much different now. Not on the back page anymore. Anyway, cheers for your assistance all.

Tabnabs

pprendeville wrote: »

Went to Finglas Garda Station and a young guard signed and witnessed the papers.

We have just gone through the same thing and the Garda at Tallaght station point blank refused to witness the form and said "I have to tell about five people a day this has to be done by a solicitor or doctor".

pprendeville

Dyflin wrote: »

We have just gone through the same thing and the Garda at Tallaght station point blank refused to witness the form and said "I have to tell about five people a day this has to be done by a solicitor or doctor".

That's gas. Maybe ask for a young lad or lass or why don't you come out to Finglas. Must be upper class in Tallaght to say you need a solicitor? Only messing. No that is a strange one. Hope you don't have to pay a solicitor to do that.

KimK

I applied for my sons passport 3 weeks ago and was told by a Tallaght Garda that he could not go as witness for us it must be done by a Solicitor or Teacher would even do. I explaned that my son dosn't attend school yet, so he said well if he attends playschool that'll be fine. So I did that. My applacation was returned on Tuesday with a letter that stated the witness was insuffecent and to check the list for approved witnesses. So I returned to Tallaght Garda station and got a different Garda, She also refussed to sign saying " I don't know you so can't do it" (I would have thought that was a good thing) "You could always get a Solicitor to do it" Explained I didn't know any and her response shocked me....."Well I know a few in the area that if you give them a few bob they'll sign it for you" ??????? Or get your GP to sign it. So I rang my GP today and I was told you must make an appointment and there is a charge of 20 euro. hahaha what a money making scam if ever i heard one. SO really not quite sure what your meant to do.........Thanks for allowing me to rant my frustration. :mad::mad::D

alexlyons

Can't accountants sign it??

pah

KimK wrote: »

I applied for my sons passport 3 weeks ago and was told by a Tallaght Garda that he could not go as witness for us it must be done by a Solicitor or Teacher would even do. I explaned that my son dosn't attend school yet, so he said well if he attends playschool that'll be fine. So I did that. My applacation was returned on Tuesday with a letter that stated the witness was insuffecent and to check the list for approved witnesses. So I returned to Tallaght Garda station and got a different Garda, She also refussed to sign saying " I don't know you so can't do it" (I would have thought that was a good thing) "You could always get a Solicitor to do it" Explained I didn't know any and her response shocked me....."Well I know a few in the area that if you give them a few bob they'll sign it for you" ??????? Or get your GP to sign it. So I rang my GP today and I was told you must make an appointment and there is a charge of 20 euro. hahaha what a money making scam if ever i heard one. SO really not quite sure what your meant to do.........Thanks for allowing me to rant my frustration. :mad::mad::D

That's rubbish a Garda can sign page 3 to witness the parents signatures.

Lollymcd

+ 1 for Garda signing the form. The majority of forms are signed by Gardai. (I worked for the PPO some years ago.) Some Gardai can have... for want of a better word... attitude. Try a different station. They are not signing to say that they know you but that you are named as a parent on the birth cert and that you were present when signing to say that you are willing for your child to get a passport. Good luck!

KimK

Lollymcd wrote: »

+ 1 for Garda signing the form. The majority of forms are signed by Gardai. (I worked for the PPO some years ago.) Some Gardai can have... for want of a better word... attitude. Try a different station. They are not signing to say that they know you but that you are named as a parent on the birth cert and that you were present when signing to say that you are willing for your child to get a passport. Good luck!

Yeah I totally agree but what the Garda at Tallaght are doing is sticking to the wording on the form:( Note to witness: Parent/Guardian must sign in your presence and must be personally know to you or identified to you by someone know to you who is not related to them. )
I've tried Crumlin station and they say they'd be happy to do it but I don't live in that district so they can't. The Garda down there found it very funny when I told him what happened in Tallaght.

Yeah an accountant can sign it too but again must be known to you.

pah

KimK wrote: »

Yeah I totally agree but what the Garda at Tallaght are doing is sticking to the wording on the form:( Note to witness: Parent/Guardian must sign in your presence and must be personally know to you or identified to you by someone know to you who is not related to them. )
I've tried Crumlin station and they say they'd be happy to do it but I don't live in that district so they can't. The Garda down there found it very funny when I told him what happened in Tallaght.

Yeah an accountant can sign it too but again must be known to you.

Well I get around that by introducing myself to the person signing the form and vice versa, shaking there hand & voila - personally known to me

KimK wrote: »

but I don't live in that district so they can't

That's about as true as what they told you in Tallaght

KimK

That's about as true as what they told you in Tallaght[/QUOTE]


Yeah I was thinking the very same thing one is a bad as the other, but a least the Garda in Crumlin got a good giggle out of it.
We finally got someone to witness it today so hopefully thats the end of it. Just have to hope the flooding and go slow in Passport office doesn't hold it up to long. Fingers crossed and anything else crossed with it. :rolleyes:

skibum

Just came back from Bray station where we got 2 forms / photos signed with no fuss at all, while we were there another family were also getting theirs signed as well.