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You were right, I checked the application today and it was dispatched today. If it helps anyone get some relief and a bit of hope with first time applications I had a 5 week wait from when documents were received. I sent them on January 14th and the office received them January 21st. Took 4 weeks to change to processing and then a week later it was printing and dispatched

I am starting to get hopeful now based on some of the good news stories some of you have kindly posted. I submitted my sons first time application on 30th January (not knowing how backlogged the passport office was). The estimated due date is 21st April and we are due to fly to tge U.S. on the 22nd of April which doesnt give us enough time for visa application. I have to cancel my flights 2 weeks prior to flight date to be eligible for a voucher, am I wrong for thinking there is a glimmer of hope to receive before the 7th of April??

I've been following a lot on here and am currently waiting on our little ones first, you applied 2wks after us and we have estimated date of 31st March, so going by that you'll be on or around April 14th, give or take a day or 2.

Now its 1st March today, my status bar seems to be moving down quite quickly so Hugh chance we'll get it before 31st

First time application here for my son, sent on Feb 14th, received Feb 16th but the tracking never updated since.

Got onto the live chat (https://www.dfa.ie/passports/contact/#) and refreshed the page each minute until it went green. History goes like:

"So whatever the tracker is showing, it must not be updating accurately at the moment because from what I can see on our system it is processing as normal. I can see the documents have been received and registered on the application. There is currently an estimated issue date of 14/04/2022."

So don't depend on the Application ID tracking esp for a Passport Express / paper application and try the live chat to confirm its all running ok.

Anyone know if you have to send in child’s birth cert for renewal?

Does anyone knows how long it takes before the tracker shows that the children renewal documents were received? Anpost says that they were delivered yesterday morning, however tracker is stil showing a message that they are waiting for the docs.

Some people have had their tracker update after 4 ish working days. My docs were received on 4 Feb and tracker still not updated. It’s seems to be pot luck as to whether the tracker will work or not.

i renewed my other daughters passport and birth cert wasn't needed just the consent form.

I received my documents back today about a week after i received passport!

I renewed my passport online on Sunday evening and my new passport arrived in the post today - incredibly fast service

If they need it, they need it. Probably need it to update their records or to correct an error.

My partners first time application: we sent in new Garda witness form (had to resubmit this after the first Garda didn't fill in the log book), arrived Monday 28th, updated today docs received and estimated date is 25/03, originally when we sent in first documents on january 11th the estimate date was 15/03, so the delay is not very long at all.

That is really good. Im really hopeful now that my trip wont be cancelled!!

just wondering was this an online or paper application? They got my son’s documents on 4 Feb, tracker still saying send in the docs and on the phone they said the estimated date is 13 April. A longer timeframe than yours

thanks!

The speed up only seems to apply to straight forward applications.

We are both foreign parents and we are waiting for the first passport since June (with extra documents sent in November). I know a few more people with non Irish parents who are also waiting for months.

18/01/22 hopefully yours come back early now too🤞