waiting for a passport. how long it takes?

Artur.PL

I've sent passport application for my baby boy through the Passport Express almost 3 weeks ago. On the dfa.ie was information that it takes 10 working days and information that my application was "Received on 04/06/2010 and has been registered." Nothing has changed till today. My wife was talking with somebody from passport office today and he said that it takes 25 working days(website says 22)not 10 and still nothing is done with the applications.
How long usually you have to wait for a passport?

RobbieTheRobber

I have posted your passport to you today you should have it by the end of the week!

seamus

Where have you been for the last six months?

The passport office has been on a go-slow since February (or maybe earlier) and there is now a backlog of 60,000 passports waiting to be made.

The passport express service in any kind of normal country where union pricks don't strike for the right to sit around scratching their hole, should take ten working days.

At present in Ireland, passport express takes 25 working days (i.e. five weeks).

Kiera

There is a huge back-log at the mo so i'd say it will be a few weeks more.

KeithM89_old

Took me about 6 weeks in total - from first week of May to the second week of June

RobbieTheRobber

If your really in a hurry to get an Irish passport the easiest thing to do is just head down to the Israeli embassy they have loads of them to give out.

Degsy

seamus wrote: »

Where have you been for the last six months?

The passport office has been on a go-slow since February (or maybe earlier) and there is now a backlog of 60,000 passports waiting to be made.

The passport express service in any kind of normal country where union pricks don't strike for the right to sit around scratching their hole, should take ten working days.

You may be aware that one of the machines in the passport office was damaged by flooding..the staff simply elected not to do unpaid overtime after the govt decided to cut thier wages.
Maybe if people planned thier passports well in advance of tier need to travel there wouldnt be such a backlog.

Dohnny Jepp

Maybe if the employees in the passport office took their finger out there wouldn't be a backlog.

dr.bollocko

Moved from AH.

Artur.PL

RobbieTheRobber wrote: »

If your really in a hurry to get an Irish passport the easiest thing to do is just head down to the Israeli embassy they have loads of them to give out.

I had the same idea , I was there but they told me they do not do that right now due to some problems they had some time ago.Maybe later they said

Keithm89 wrote: »

Took me about 6 weeks in total - from first week of May to the second week of June

it not so bad, it means we still have time

Degsy

Dohnny Jepp wrote: »

Maybe if the employees in the passport office took their finger out there wouldn't be a backlog.

What,like work unpaid overtime for 7% less wages..i can see that catching on :rolleyes:

Dohnny Jepp

No just actually do even a little work from 9 to 5.

Degsy

Dohnny Jepp wrote: »

No just actually do even a little work from 9 to 5.

But when teh staff werent working to rule everything went smoothly enough,yes?
That would imply they were doing more than thier share beforehand.

Bullmcgovern

3 weeks exactly via passport express. Posted application Fri May 27th. Got passport Friday June 19th. We didn't do anything to try to speed it up. Seems to be sortng itself out in there.

Ellen33

Hi I posted my passport on the 25th of May and received it in the post on Monday 21st of June. However I did go in last week to the passport office to see what was happening as I am going away tomorrow. I don't know if me going in moved things along but I figured it was worth a try and it worked!