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URGENT: Passport Advice Needed!

  • 27-06-2012 9:21am
    #1
    nolo1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭


    My sister-in-law is in France on holidays. Her two daughters aged 13 and 15 are travelling on her passport.
    Her older girl turns 16 two days before she flies back and will no longer be eligible to travel on her mothers passport, which doesn't expire until March 2014. They were told by Ryanair at Cork Airport that they were "flagging" this on their computer for the return journey.

    I've tried to contact the Passport Office on their behalf but, not surprisingly, my call is stuck in a queue. Has anyone experience of this? What is likely to happen at La Rochelle airport in two weeks time when they try to fly home? Can they do something at their side to sort this matter? Any advice?


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  • #2
    finbarrk
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    I'd say they will be let home.


  • #3
    schemingbohemia
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    My reading of this from the www.passport.ie site

    Passports are required for travel to all countries except the United Kingdom. (However, you should note that some airlines now require photo-ID for flights to the UK). With the exception of travel to the U.K., Irish citizens require a valid passport for travel to all other destinations in the E.U.
    All EU citizens have the right to enter and reside in the territory of any other Member State of the Union for a period of up to three months simply by presenting a valid passport or national identity card: no other formality is required. Member States cannot set additional conditions concerning the minimum validity of duration of the identity card or passport.

    Is that you need a valid passport to enter but not to leave therefore I would think that the elder child will be fine. A call to the French Embassy here should clarify the issue though.


  • #4
    nolo1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭nolo1


    schemingbohemia wrote: »
    My reading of this from the www.passport.ie site

    Passports are required for travel to all countries except the United Kingdom. (However, you should note that some airlines now require photo-ID for flights to the UK). With the exception of travel to the U.K., Irish citizens require a valid passport for travel to all other destinations in the E.U.
    All EU citizens have the right to enter and reside in the territory of any other Member State of the Union for a period of up to three months simply by presenting a valid passport or national identity card: no other formality is required. Member States cannot set additional conditions concerning the minimum validity of duration of the identity card or passport.

    Is that you need a valid passport to enter but not to leave therefore I would think that the elder child will be fine. A call to the French Embassy here should clarify the issue though.


    The Irish Embassy say someone needs to fax a copy of her birth certificate to the Embassy in Paris immediately and she then needs to travel to Paris to the Irish Embassy with BOTH parents to get for an "emergency travel cert".

    Thanks for the advice though.


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