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Travelling with infant-passport required?

  • 18-05-2010 02:47PM
    #1
    BlackForestJule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭


    Hi all,
    I'm due my second baby in two weeks' time and all going well I want to attend one of my best friends' wedding in Germany three weeks after. Possibly going to book Aer Lingus as the wedding is near Berlin and it seems my best option.
    The problem is that it seems unlikely that I'll get a proper passport for the little one in time. Has anyone here travelled with a baby this young before and can advise me on it? Does Aer Lingus accept birth certs as ID for flights to Europe or can you get a provisional passport for cases like this?

    Could go through the German embassy as well as the kid'll have dual nationalitz, but I assume they'd be even slower...
    On the other hand, they give you a provisional one when you lose yours on holidays, I suppose...

    thanks, BFJ


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  • #2
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    I have no experience of this but reading the DFA site suggests that all children, no matter what age, will require their own passport.

    3 weeks would I imagine have been fine to obtain a passport for the infant but perhaps not with the current strike.

    Probably worth having someone call Aer Lingus anyhow ?


  • #3
    BlackForestJule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭BlackForestJule


    Hi Ponster,
    as I feared... I'll just have to try and get it as soon as he's born. I can't seem to get a real person on the phone at Aer Lingus, but my boyfriend will be at the airport next week, so I'll send him to the AL ticket desk.


  • #4
    lilka
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    Hi, I'm in similar situation but I did not think some provisional passport was possible. I've been told we must first wait approx. 3 weeks after birth date to get a birth cert (hospital told us we could try after 2 weeks but the average waiting time is 14 working days - hence the 3 weeks), then at that point you can apply for a passport. We can though hopefully just about get by in this timeframe..I hope for your sake that you can find a way around this. I'd be interested to know what others think...


  • #5
    lynski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,585 ✭✭✭lynski


    have only travelled to uk with babies, but when i went to London and jersey with my son (12 wks and 6 mths ) never asked for any id for him. forgot his BC on way to jersey so didn't have it if i was asked.

    but here is the official AL linehttp://www.aerlingus.com/cgi-bin/obel01im1/Support/helpPlanBook.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0711488115.1274261088@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccceadekhfimjklcefecfigdffgdfkh.0&Category=2&P_OID=-536880753&C_OID=536889342#passportvisa


  • #6
    BlackForestJule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭BlackForestJule


    Two to three weeks for the birth cert alone? Haven't been on to AL yet, but the German embassy says that it'd take 10 days for the passport, so I thought I had it all sorted, but of course they need the birth cert...

    I don't stand a chance so if I don't go early. Bummer! :(

    That's the one wedding I didn't want to miss!


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  • #7
    munchkin_utd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,940 ✭✭✭munchkin_utd


    BlackForestJule wrote: »
    Two to three weeks for the birth cert alone? Haven't been on to AL yet, but the German embassy says that it'd take 10 days for the passport, so I thought I had it all sorted, but of course they need the birth cert...
    10 day for the german passport!
    We were considering getting our wee one a german passport but all passports come from the central stationary office in Berlin now and we were told that it could take up to 6 weeks.

    Would it be possible to get a german ID card, not passport, which is also accepted by aer lingus to travel.
    Maybe they can issue those in Dublin?

    anyhow, being a nation to follow regulations, the germans do check the passports at checkin and at immigration, so no matter how lax they are in ireland, you'll not get very far into or out of germany.


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