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Hi guys

My passport is due out end of Sept. Only going to uk in August but going ryanair. I'm putting application in tomorrow what are my chances of getting it back at the moment? Cheers.

I'm not sure about this. Ryanair said they would not accept it for August date as out in Sept. I Don't really want to get into a showdown with them at the flight desk.

If it's only 72 hours turnaround the thats fine. Cheers.

I'm just hearing all the horror stories at the moment and worried.

I don't know. I spoke to ryanair about and there policy won't accept it. I won't risk it and anyone else reading the thread I would hate for them to end up in a predicament.

Anyone else in a similar situation get in touch with Ryanair for there stance on it.

Is it only new passports that are caught in limbo? Or one's done via the passport? The turnaround for renewals online is good yeah?

Hi All...we are travelling this year, for the first time in years like many. Three of the kids passports are out of date come the end of July. We were of the understanding that you needed 6mths validity left on your passport to travel, so we applied for renewals in early Apr. The trackers says they are to be issued the end of next week. It's too tight as we fly on the 7th. Called the US embassy today (which we should have done from day dot) and they confirmed we could use their current passports. So we are wondering can we cancel the current applications we have in? If they get issued, the risk is we won't receive them on time anyway (bank holiday on 6th and we'd be gone to airport before post arrives on 7th), plus we have to do the esta visa thing in advance on going. I just can't see an option to cancel online, so is it back to trying to ring them/get them on webchat? Would they refund? I saw a post earlier on this that someone got refunded.

Hi All. Looking for some advice here. I stupidly used Passport Express to apply for a First Time passport for my son, I submitted it in Post Office in March and the tracker confirms it as application received on 22/03/2022. The estimated issue date was 17/05/2022 however it is still showing as processing.

I subsequently heard on the radio that First Time Passports need to submit photocopies of parents Passports/ birth certs - which I unfortunately did not do. However I do recall the guard verifying our passports on the Passport form that we submitted so Im wondering/hoping is this not a requirement for Passport Express and just the online service?

We absolutely need to travel at the start of August for a very important reason, so Im wondering should I just submit a concurrent passport online application now, what are the risks of doing that?

@question123456788 You do need to provide a photocopy of the parents passports or birthcerts whether doing online or postal application. The issue is that they will not check this until near the estimated due date - I see you’re over your date so I’m assuming they haven’t verified this yet. I’d try to get in touch with them to let them know rather than starting another application as this could cause confusion

Hi it’s a nightmare but if you ring over and over you will get through just keep hanging up and ringing again…you might have to try 80 times but it does work. Try at 11 or 3. Good luck!

Hi I just wanted to check if you went to the mount street office or balbriggan? Delighted you got yours in the end!

Ask a Question if I may,

Applied for daughter renewal and they showed getting documents Feb 28th, yet still took until May 13th for passport to print.

Passport was heading to US address (work assignment) but shortly after clearing customs tracking goes dead, supporting documents send just to be safe posted a week later already in hand. USPS have no clue and less interest in helping.

Original passport still has some time left on it, but told it is no longer valid once you apply for a new passport, yet language on DFA says no longer valid once new passport book arrives, which it hasn't. So has anyone run into a situation like this, as we've travel booked home to ireland soon, and with 15 working day turnaround you'd think applying in Feb would be good enough.

TIA

Just to give people some hope our experience has actually been surprisingly good, considering what others have been through.

We applied on 1st April for a child renewal and a 1st time passport for our new baby.

The child renewal we got in post in less than 3 weeks, and we recieved our babys passport last week one week ahead of schedule.

We had no issues with documents submitted and got both forms signed and witnessed by Gardai.

We are going on hols in July so it's a huge relief to have them.

So don't give up hope it is possible to get them on time in some cases!

It's very frustrating acdublin.

Ours has worked out well, but the stress to get documents from time he was born!

We were told in hospitial that Dublin birth office only accepting appointments to register birth and next available appointment was 2 mths later!

Instead they advised us to go to office outside Dublin that had drop in option so my husband went to Drogheda one day and thankfully had it a few hours later.

Only then could we start process of applying for passport.

Very frustrating when your child has a right to birth cert and passport.

Covid has made an absolutely shambles of some public services. It's disgraceful that they have been allowed to continue with poor service even when Covid is long over.

The passport office technology is up to date and our passport is one of the most secure in the world. You can't automate document verification and security checks. First passports are the ones all future passports are based on so of course they take longer and extra attention.

I applied for first Irish passport 21st February. It is now 14 weeks. The tracker has stated estimation date 18th April and it is still stating this date. I actually got through to passport office after 60 attempts. Customer Agent said I was in the final security check that was 3 weeks ago. Is the estimation date ever updated? How long have people waited for first passport postal application? I am going on holiday in July. This is now 61 working days since I applied.

Thank you

"Our new baby's birth cert is, well, you know, in the passport office!"

You can get another one for €20 in any Civil Registration office.