** ALL ** Passport Related Questions in here! Please Read Post#1 first!

Fred Swanson

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Malee

Turnaround times updated:
Renewals now 14 working days, first/lost now 27 working days.

It's getting worse...

Effects

I can't lay my hands on my passport at the moment and need to book a flight tomorrow. Is it possible for me to get my passport number somehow? I'll have the passport before I travel.
Can't seem to find any info online.
Any help much appreciated.

GBX

Would you have used it to book previous flights? Maybe check previous email confirmations? Or have you sent it to anybody for security reason maybe check sent emails too?

shocksy

You won't find that information online, and I can't see the Passport Office giving it out to you on the phone either.

As far as I know you won't need the Passport Number just to book a flight, because normally this is only required when you are checking in online. So you should be able to proceed and book the flight. Do a test run on the site and go as far as the payment page and see does it request a Passport number. I'm pretty sure it won't.

Effects

I'll try a test run on ryanair and see if I can book.
Tried looking at previous booking I used it for but it won't give me the previous passport details.
Haven't sent it to anyone or sent to myself, as I had done with my previous passport.

maximoose

shocksy wrote: »

As far as I know you won't need the Passport Number just to book a flight, because normally this is only required when you are checking in online.

Yep you're right with Ryanair anyway, should be fine OP

munchkin_utd

with ryanair you may have needed a passport number in the past as you checked in when you bought the ticket (and therefore needed a passport thanks to ryanairs stupid rules)

if you can choose a different airline with less stupid rules, then you definitely wont need a passport number, and going to UK you can even travel without a passport completely if you avoid Ryanair.

bennyc

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zuutroy

My daughter's passport express renewal bounced because my Wife's name has changed since we got her first passport.

They want a marriage cert in the post. Is 2 weeks enough time to just send it back and wait, or would I need to go in to Molesworth St and expedite the process a bit?

Fred Swanson

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Malee

zuutroy wrote: »

My daughter's passport express renewal bounced because my Wife's name has changed since we got her first passport.

They want a marriage cert in the post. Is 2 weeks enough time to just send it back and wait, or would I need to go in to Molesworth St and expedite the process a bit?

Post it back asap, passport should be out to you in appx 5 working days.

zuutroy

I got it into them this morning through a friend in An Post and they've already reopened the application and given a new issue date of the 24th. Are the issue dates normally accurate?

Malee

zuutroy wrote: »

I got it into them this morning through a friend in An Post and they've already reopened the application and given a new issue date of the 24th. Are the issue dates normally accurate?

If the application is already in the system and they need more documents it comes back through a different (quicker) stream. Usually they are dealt with within appx 3 working days.

oirishguy

I just received my daughters passport for a long awaited trip abroad, only to notice that the DOB was printed wrong..by 2 years. We sent the correct details and birth cert.it took 4 weeks (even with passport express). Does anyone have any advice? Or similar experience?

Yamanoto

When are you due to travel?

schaffer

oirishguy wrote: »

I just received my daughters passport for a long awaited trip abroad, only to notice that the DOB was printed wrong..by 2 years. We sent the correct details and birth cert.it took 4 weeks (even with passport express). Does anyone have any advice? Or similar experience?

If you have time call up the passport office and they will change it even if you are flying in 2 days.
If you need to fly within hours use the passport, nobody will notice the DOB unless it's way off. If questioned plead ignorance and claim you did not notice it.

languagenerd

They will fix it for you for free when it's their mistake. My first passport, when I was 13, said I was male instead of female and I'd travelled to London and back before I noticed! There is an emergency rapid turnaround service in Dublin if you need it very soon (down the bottom of this page: https://www.dfa.ie/passports-citizenship/passport-express/current-turnaround-times/)

jay93

zuutroy wrote: »

I got it into them this morning through a friend in An Post and they've already reopened the application and given a new issue date of the 24th. Are the issue dates normally accurate?

My issue date was accurate for mine.

oirishguy

Yamanoto wrote: »

When are you due to travel?

Traveling in 3 weeks...I would just play dumb but she's 3 and won't pass for a 1yr old

Atlantic Dawn

Contact Passport Office, they will sort it fast as it's their mistake.

Malee

oirishguy wrote: »

I just received my daughters passport for a long awaited trip abroad, only to notice that the DOB was printed wrong..by 2 years. We sent the correct details and birth cert.it took 4 weeks (even with passport express). Does anyone have any advice? Or similar experience?

If in or near Dublin go into the office in Mount Street and ask for Customer Care. Bring daughters passport and birth cert with you. If mistake was made (which is likely if birth cert and passport don't match) they will replace for free, probably even within a few hours.
If further afield e-mail, ring or tweet them and they'll give you an address to post it to, and it will also be replaced free of charge within a couple of days.

Yamanoto

oirishguy wrote: »

Traveling in 3 weeks...I would just play dumb but she's 3 and won't pass for a 1yr old

Plenty of time so, though I'd be sure to tell 'em you want it back by courier or expedited post.

If travel were imminent, the best option to get things moving would be to contact your T.D.

luii

Traveling in few days, after 5 weeks still no passport for 1 year old ..... target issue date on web is 20.05.2016 (Friday) our flight is Sunday. Try to call to passport office but line is closed. Any idea what to do???

sillysocks

Did you include your travel date with the application? I found when I included my date I did get it back in time (although only with 2 days to spare!). What status is your application on now? They also told me it's guaranteed next day delivery with An Post so you should still have time to receive it.
If you didn't give your travel date and have a Twitter account I found that the best way to contact them-if you private message they reply within a few hours so you could ask them to add the date to the application.

luii

sillysocks wrote: »

Did you include your travel date with the application? I found when I included my date I did get it back in time (although only with 2 days to spare!). What status is your application on now? They also told me it's guaranteed next day delivery with An Post so you should still have time to receive it.
If you didn't give your travel date and have a Twitter account I found that the best way to contact them-if you private message they reply within a few hours so you could ask them to add the date to the application.

I did include my travel date. My status for the last 5 days is stage 2. I used tweeter now, will see is any answer. Thanks

P_1

So they're not answering the phone, not replying on Twitter and about as useful as a chocolate teapot in the passport office itself. Is there any reason why they're running such a backlog?

green2016

Hi did any one apply around 26 th of April first time adult applicants and got the passport ? or what stage are you in ?

Thank you

Penny Tration

P_1 wrote: »

So they're not answering the phone, not replying on Twitter and about as useful as a chocolate teapot in the passport office itself. Is there any reason why they're running such a backlog?

Presumably understaffed (they were in March when I received mine, took six weeks), and unprepared for the amount of applications pouring in because of the potential Brexit

P_1

Penny Tration wrote: »

Presumably understaffed (they were in March when I received mine, took six weeks), and unprepared for the amount of applications pouring in because of the potential Brexit

True, kinda wish I knew that back in March mind.