International Student Identification Card

Killer_banana

So my leaving cert graduation is in a few weeks and due to many reasons, including the current strike action, I have no passport. Without a passport you can't apply for a garda card (you need photo ID) so I have no form of ID at all.

I was searching online trying to see if there was any other accepted form of ID. I found a site about International Student Identification Cards. They're available globally and allow you various types of discount in other countries etc etc. I know a lot of places tend to only accept Garda ID/passports/drivers licenses but they do have a date of birth and photo on them so do you think if I got one and had other things to back it up such as banks cards e.t.c and perhaps explained my situation it would work? Does anyone own one of these cards? Are they any good? If not does anyone know any other form of identification I could use? Thanks in advance for any help. Oh also, dunno if this is the right place or not so feel free to move it if it isn't.

starbelgrade

Killer_banana wrote: »

So my leaving cert graduation is in a few weeks and due to many reasons, including the current strike action, I have no passport. Without a passport you can't apply for a garda card (you need photo ID) so I have no form of ID at all.

I was searching online trying to see if there was any other accepted form of ID. I found a site about International Student Identification Cards. They're available globally and allow you various types of discount in other countries etc etc. I know a lot of places tend to only accept Garda ID/passports/drivers licenses but they do have a date of birth and photo on them so do you think if I got one and had other things to back it up such as banks cards e.t.c and perhaps explained my situation it would work? Does anyone own one of these cards? Are they any good? If not does anyone know any other form of identification I could use? Thanks in advance for any help. Oh also, dunno if this is the right place or not so feel free to move it if it isn't.

I applied for a passport through the Post Office two weeks ago. I had it 5 days later. The backlog is in the Passport Office on Molesworth Street.

eth0_

Don't bother with a garda age card. Just get a passport. No one can refuse you if you have a passport, whereas i've heard of shops refusing Garda ID's as they are so easily forged (or at least, that was the case a few years ago).

Killer_banana

eth0_ wrote: »

Don't bother with a garda age card. Just get a passport. No one can refuse you if you have a passport, whereas i've heard of shops refusing Garda ID's as they are so easily forged (or at least, that was the case a few years ago).

They've since updated them to make forgery more difficult although the rare place still might not accept them.

starbelgrade wrote: »

I applied for a passport through the Post Office two weeks ago. I had it 5 days later. The backlog is in the Passport Office on Molesworth Street.

Really? so what office do I send it to? Cork? I've heard both are really backed up.

Mark200

I've never heard of Garda Age Cards getting refused. I thought it was the law that they had to be accepted.

starbelgrade

Killer_banana wrote: »

They've since updated them to make forgery more difficult although the rare place still might not accept them.



Really? so what office do I send it to? Cork? I've heard both are really backed up.

Just go into the Post Office & apply through there. They'll send it to the nearest sorting place - I was told there was a 20 day backlog too, but there wasn't.

Killer_banana

Mark200 wrote: »

I've never heard of Garda Age Cards getting refused. I thought it was the law that they had to be accepted.

Nearest sorting place must be molesworth then because my friend applied for a passport and took way over 20 days.

Just realised I need photo ID for an ISIC as well. ****.

xoixo

I only ever use my age card and never been refused, they'd be pretty damn impossible to forge the new ones.

But I'd be skeptical of those international student cards, might be wasting your money. All under 18s gotta do is type in Fake ID into google search and 20e later they've some random 'student card' with their photo on it. Even if what you've seen is legit, bouncers might just lump them all together.

phasers

Tesco and Aldi (my local ones anyway) will only accept Garda IDs, no passports.

So get one OP, you don't want to be bringing your passports to clubs anyway

starbelgrade

Grow a big beard. No-one ever I-Ds a bearded man. Or lady, come to think of it.

orourkeda

Students. Jaysus

thetonynator

Provisional driving licences are ridiculously easy to forge . . .

ordinary_girl

xoixo wrote: »

Even if what you've seen is legit, bouncers might just lump them all together.

This. A few times I haven't been able to get into places because I only had my student ID.

jimi_t2

eth0_ wrote: »

Don't bother with a garda age card. Just get a passport. No one can refuse you if you have a passport, whereas i've heard of shops refusing Garda ID's as they are so easily forged (or at least, that was the case a few years ago).

Tesco, some Spars and some Londis will accept nothing but Garda.

DarkJager

Killer_banana wrote: »

So my leaving cert graduation is in a few weeks and due to many reasons, including the current strike action, I have no passport. Without a passport you can't apply for a garda card (you need photo ID) so I have no form of ID at all.

I was searching online trying to see if there was any other accepted form of ID. I found a site about International Student Identification Cards. They're available globally and allow you various types of discount in other countries etc etc. I know a lot of places tend to only accept Garda ID/passports/drivers licenses but they do have a date of birth and photo on them so do you think if I got one and had other things to back it up such as banks cards e.t.c and perhaps explained my situation it would work? Does anyone own one of these cards? Are they any good? If not does anyone know any other form of identification I could use? Thanks in advance for any help. Oh also, dunno if this is the right place or not so feel free to move it if it isn't.

Yes, just try walking up to a bouncer with an "International Student Identification Card"

highlydebased

starbelgrade wrote: »

Grow a big beard. No-one ever I-Ds a bearded man. Or lady, come to think of it.

Not a truer word.

Freckles..!

Sorry OP, but I tried that before and it didn't work on any of the bouncers. The best I got was I got into Oxegen with it.. and that's cos those security lads are ****e!

Have you sent off for your passport already?? Because with the backlog they have allowed for you to just sent a photocopy and keep your old passport for ID. I believe clubs etc. were accepting this.

RichTea

I got one of those before I went interrailing. It was only while I was over in Europe that I discovered that my date of birth was 12.11.2013.

The moral of that story - don't get it done in USIT.

bonerjams03

Don't get one, the Student Card, even if they do have your age it actually says on the card "this is not to be used for the purchase of alcohol" or something to that affect. Also, they look so fake. There is a layer of plastic that is crudely placed over your photo, if that was torn the photo would just slide away.

Garda ID's, the ones that have been introduced in the past few years are the most over complicated, unforgeable things out there. I know it's no use now, but get one, you feel so secure with it in your wallet without having to worry about losing your passport.

Do you even have an expired passport you could use?

timmywex

eth0_ wrote: »

Don't bother with a garda age card. Just get a passport. No one can refuse you if you have a passport, whereas i've heard of shops refusing Garda ID's as they are so easily forged (or at least, that was the case a few years ago).

Backwards! Passports are the easy ones to forge these days!

Killer_banana

IRcolm wrote: »

Don't get one, the Student Card, even if they do have your age it actually says on the card "this is not to be used for the purchase of alcohol" or something to that affect. Also, they look so fake. There is a layer of plastic that is crudely placed over your photo, if that was torn the photo would just slide away.

Garda ID's, the ones that have been introduced in the past few years are the most over complicated, unforgeable things out there. I know it's no use now, but get one, you feel so secure with it in your wallet without having to worry about losing your passport.

Do you even have an expired passport you could use?

No. I wanted to get one ages ago but being a minor at the time my parents had to sort it out and they kept putting it off.

Mike 1972

I went to school with a guy who had a Student ID saying he was 21 when he was 14 (no bloody way did he look anything like 21 either) He could get into nightclubs (although the bouncers probably knew damn well) but it probably wouldnt work now

Killer_banana

Been out a few times without ID. One or two places are okay but the majority aren't.

eth0_

jimi_t2 wrote: »

Tesco, some Spars and some Londis will accept nothing but Garda.

That's actually illegal. Passport, driving license and Garda ID are the only acceptable forms of proof of age in Ireland. They cannot refuse to serve you if you produce your passport.

segaBOY

Are you sure you absolutely have to have another form of photo id?

I remember when I applied for mine (3 years ago at this stage) they didn't need to see a photo id. I gave them my birth cert, a letter addressed to me (letter from the CAO) and a photo. They accepted it grand but that was a Garda station in a rural town (the Garda didn't know me or anything) if that would make a difference.

From Garda Age Card website:

Do I need anything else to get my National Age Card?
Yes. You will also require the following:
Your Birth Certificate or your GNIB (Garda National Immigration Bureau) Card.
One other form of ID.
One colour passport photograph.

Your parents may be asked to accompany you at the time of application to confirm your identity.

Doesn't say you need a photo id so chance it anyway with something addressed to you or the likes, explain your situation and try and drag a parent along!

Good luck with it anyway mate.

--LOS--

I think a bouncer would laugh in your face if you showed them an international student ID card! I've been accused before of having a fake garda ID card when it's not so good luck with an international student card!

Also what the hell is with fcuking lidl and aldi id-ing you just for the hell of it. Happens all the time, I'm only 22 but even when with a friend who is few years older, looks older, beard n all they always insist, one time recently they actually insisted both of us had ID?? I see them ask people all the time who are clearly well into their 30s etc.

Mike 1972

eth0_ wrote: »

They cannot refuse to serve you if you produce your passport.

A retailer can refuse to serve you for any reason he likes other than the grounds specified in the Equal status act

mixthetricks

eth0_ wrote: »

That's actually illegal. Passport, driving license and Garda ID are the only acceptable forms of proof of age in Ireland. They cannot refuse to serve you if you produce your passport.

If some spotty faced snot picker came into my store or bar with a ten year passport that his Mammy and Daddy got for him when he was nine or ten, I'd tell him to get f#<&3d....recent photo or piss off. Completely unidentifiable. Could be using any one of his relations passports, could be they're their sisters/brothers for all i know

oppenheimer1

Don't bother with the ISIC card. In pre garda card days they would have worked but they became so easily forged no where would accept them. The only thing I would get one is to do a J1.

Get yourself a Garda card, and a passport in the mean time - don't make a habit of bringing it out though... You can only lose it three times before they will refuse to give you another one.

mconigol

Zombie alert!

YourName

I hate when you read through a thread thats two years old without realising, I really wonder how people find these threads and start posting like it was only yesterday ! ! !

Nothingbetter2d

apply for the driving license.... you can use that to get your garda age card

Eric Cartman

Those "international student cards" are frOm a site selling fake ids, most bouncers can spot them a mile off as theyve been doin the rounds since I was of that age. If you bring no ID to your grad you might get away with it , bring one of those and youve a 90% chance of getting thrown out

mconigol

YourName wrote: »

I hate when you read through a thread thats two years old without realising, I really wonder how people find these threads and start posting like it was only yesterday ! ! !

Think of it as Reeling in the Years, boards style....