Trip to USA and renewing irish passport early - advice needed?

veryangryman

I am travelling to USA in September but passport expires in November

According to terms of travel, you must have a passport at least 6 months from expiry. Can it be renewed early to satisfy this condition?

Mods - apologies but the query is urgent - cant find anything in Citzens Info and everyone views AH . Thanks if can help :pac:

Indubitable

You probably can but if you can't, you can conveniently lose your current passport

mikom

Contact the Israeli embassy........ they should sort you out.

InTheTrees

Not sure, try US Travel forum.

I thought the general advice was that if you have a return ticket thats before your passport expires (even if its only a few weeks) you'll be fine. But dont take my word for it.

You can call the US embassy and ask them? Or call the airline you're flying with.

El Horseboxo

Yeah you should be able to once you explain why. you are better off going into them because if you just send off the form they will probably send it back.

Abrasax

Break your passport.
Yes, break your passport, I said, and then apply for a new one.
Mine broke when the plastic card bit, which has your photo and details, first broke at the edges from being in my back pocket too much, then a hotel receptionist snapped it completely.
I sellotaped it back together and continued travelling around the place, telling those at border control perceptive enough to spot it, 'it just happened yesterday and I'm getting a new one as soon as I'm back home', but then I ran into the same cop twice and the gig was up.
So off to the passport office I went, broken passport in hand, and I changed it for a new one.
They don't make them like they used to.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Abrasax wrote: »

They don't make them like they used to.

I hear they're all a bunch of lazy bastards where they make those.

Din Taylor

The requirement to send your old passport in Passport Express is being rescinded while there is industrial action. I got a new one recently by only sending a photocopy of the photograph page.
I don't see any problem applying "early" the more than six months to expiry rule is stnadard for most countries and I'm sure that the passport office are aware of this.

4zn76tysfajdxp

How long do you have to wait for a new passport anyway? I need to apply for one soon enough.

Abrasax

Leo Mammoth Dime wrote: »

How long do you have to wait for a new passport anyway? I need to apply for one soon enough.

I read in the Irish Times (not the Daily Mail) about two weeks ago, it's 8 weeks if you turn up at the office and 10 weeks if you do it by post.

starbelgrade

I applied for one through the post office recently & had it less than 2 weeks later.

larchielads

when this whole passport debarcle kicked off a while back there was a guy on the last word with matt cooper,not sure where he worked passport office/government or wherever but apparently there is NO rule that you cant use your passport if there is 3/6 or whatever months left on it.

example my mate is goin abroad(usa) and he thinks he cant use his passport as there's only 3 months left on it even though he's only goin for a month within the 3 months left on his passport. He thinks you cant travel if there is 3 months left on it.

according to this guy on the last word you can use your passport up to the expiry date on it.

TimTim

I renewed my passport while there was 4-6 months left on it. I didn't do anything special to get it renewed while there was that much time left on it.

biko

Travel forum is your destination.
There is several months between now and September, you should have an answer by then.