Passport Issue. Flying Wednesday

goz83

A friend of mine (who has never heard of boards.ie :eek:) is flying to the UK on Wednesday. Her Aunt is gravely ill and she is booked with Ryanair (who need a valid passport). Her passport expired 2 days ago :rolleyes: and she is panicking. Obviously the AnPost way will not be fast enough. Can she still go to the passport office with her booking details and get her passport that day, or is that no longer possible? Wednesday is the only day she can fly and she has to be back the following day due to other restrictions with work.

LoonyLovegood

Go to the passport office first thing Monday morning. They may not be able to get her one, but they'll do their best.

CNTRLR

she will need to prove she is flying so tell her bring the flight confirmation, and then if they can help they usually will, but that is no guarantee.. but turning up when the passport office opens and explaining her situation is the only thing she can do really.

percy212

Go with a form filled out and photos ready etc. They will help.

sdanseo

www.dfa.ie wrote:

Public counter (Dublin and Cork)
Standard 10-year passport is €95
Large 66-page, 10-year passport is €125
Standard 5-year passport for those between 3 and 18 years is €41.50
Standard 3-year passport for those under 3 years is €31
Public counter - Emergency charge:
You’ll have to pay the following emergency charge if you receive your passport within three to five working days:

Adult – €55
Under 18s – €30

Looks like the emergency service is 3 to 5 working days. Possible that they can look after you that quickly.

Make sure she brings her booking confirmation.

brian plank

could she go today? i got one on a saturday a few years ago and all i needed was proof of the booking, old passport etc. it wasn't an actual emergency either, they don't care once you hand over 190 quid. it only took roughly an hour.

sdanseo

brian plank wrote: »

could she go today? i got one on a saturday a few years ago and all i needed was proof of the booking, old passport etc. it wasn't an actual emergency either, they don't care once you hand over 190 quid. it only took roughly an hour.

I think in practice it can be that quick alright. Their website is probably just covering themselves with the 3-5 days. It's a scary amount of money though.

brian plank

sdeire wrote: »

I think in practice it can be that quick alright. Their website is probably just covering themselves with the 3-5 days. It's a scary amount of money though.

its not that easy to find out you can get it the same day alright, i had to ring a few numbers at the time. at the weekend you have to call the office at stephens green and they'll basically just go through a checklist of what you need and if you have it all ready to go they'll tell you to call in. 190 is painful and it's only valid for 6 months.

bisset

What going over on the boat?

folbotcar

For what it's worth I know of several people who have flown on Ryanair to and from the UK with expired passports including my wife. Remember the requirement for ID is to prevent people selling on their tickets not a requirement to enter the UK.

The boarding staff are only interested that the person before them is who they say they are. It might be different if you were a non EU national.

L1011

Would you not be able to get a flight from one of the other carriers serving the UK from Ireland (Aer Lingus, BA, CityJet, Flybe / Loganair) all of which don't require passports, for less than the €190 for an emergency passport?

MuffinsDa

Do they need passports on Ferry crossings? If not, that's a cheap option as well. I got a ticket from London to Dublin on the day a few weeks ago for £35, which included the virgin train to holyhead and crossing. It's around €40 from this end I think.

L1011

MuffinsDa wrote: »

Do they need passports on Ferry crossings?

No, may not even be asked for any ID however they do tell you to bring something.

http://www.irishferries.com/ie-en/faq/passports-identification/

http://www.stenaline.ie/FAQs/im-a-british-citizen-do-i-need-a-passport-to-travel

(and so on for the other operators)

MuffinsDa

Well then instead of spending hours in passport office or a small fortune on a flight change or an emergency passport, the best option may be walking up to the ferry...

LXFlyer

OP - check out the sailrail option at http://www.irishferries.com/ie-en/offers/sail-rail/

Lapin

Would paying an extra few bob with Aer Lingus cancel out the added cost of getting an emergency passport?

I had to get an emergency passport last year. Cost me €150 and two trips to Dublin. Took three days for them to issue it. They told me it was no longer possible to issue passports on the same day as the application was made.

Patrickof

Lapin wrote: »

Would paying an extra few bob with Aer Lingus cancel out the added cost of getting an emergency passport?

I had to get an emergency passport last year. Cost me €150 and two trips to Dublin. Took three days for them to issue it. They told me it was no longer possible to issue passports on the same day as the application was made.

Maybe that's changed, but I had to get a passport (about 7 yrs ago), got it in 37 minutes - and during lunch time! - so fair play to them, I believe they will do their best when they can.

(Our own fault, had a baby and forgot to put her on the passport - dim! - only realised when we tried to check in, 9am Dub-Paris Ryanair, they moved us (for free) to the 4pm flight if we could get we a new passport, we did and got away at 4pm!).

L1011

The printing tech has got more complicated (and I believe centralised - previously both passport offices and the UK embassy had printers as far as I know) which means instant handover isn't possible; prior to the previous passport printers they'd handwrite the emergency passports which won't get you in many places anymore.

Tenger

MYOB wrote: »

The printing tech has got more complicated (and I believe centralised - previously both passport offices and the UK embassy had printers as far as I know) which means instant handover isn't possible; prior to the previous passport printers they'd handwrite the emergency passports which won't get you in many places anymore.

Yup. While the office is in Moleworth St, the printing section is located in Swords. That's where the Passport Express applications goes to.

Marcusm

MYOB wrote: »

The printing tech has got more complicated (and I believe centralised - previously both passport offices and the UK embassy had printers as far as I know) which means instant handover isn't possible; prior to the previous passport printers they'd handwrite the emergency passports which won't get you in many places anymore.

As at Christmas, the London consulate had the ability to print the full chip enabled passport locally but reserved it for urgent situations with proof of travel. Otherwise the UK applications were being sent to Dublin for normal processing.

L1011

Was it on current or old stock? The old stock was chip also. The new stock was meant to save money by single site printing - they may have backed away from that though.

Marcusm

MYOB wrote: »

Was it on current or old stock? The old stock was chip also. The new stock was meant to save money by single site printing - they may have backed away from that though.

No idea; I still had 3 months validity so couldn't be regarded as an urgent case. Accordingly, I got a Dublin printed new passport together with Cliffs of Moher etc etc. caused me delays on multiple trips as the agents decided to congregate around it and inspect it as they'd never seen one before. Apparently, the enhanced security features are to be European standard (per UKBA at LCY who were the most interested/ delaying - 20 of them must have handled it).