Online passport renewal

Hector Savage wrote: »

Do you wear glasses ?
I do and it's impossible to get a photo with glasses to work, just took them off ...

I wear glasses and it accepted my photo taken with iPhone.

biketard wrote: »

Just did this on Monday. Renewed passport and applied for first card. Admittedly it was a bit fussy about the photo, but I managed to get one accepted by changing how the picture was cropped. I'm in Edinburgh, so this saved me a load of hassle.

Will post here when I receive it, although it said it was estimating Friday next week.

biketard wrote: »

My passport arrived today, so that was a week and a day to Edinburgh (actually more like just a week since I ordered it in the evening). Very impressed. Card still to arrive and it's still saying Friday for that. Will update when it arrives.

My card arrived on Friday as originally predicted. That means the passport took a week and the card took a week and three days (both to Edinburgh). Very impressed overall.

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

I wasnt aware you could do passport renewals if you were living abroad.

Sounds nice enough.

I have to go to the Dutch embassy every 10 years. take time off and pay double of what it would cost me in NL.

And taking a pic with your phone acceptable?
There is only 1 photographer in Dublin who can pull off an acceptable picture for a Dutch passport.

I have to say, there is enough wrong in this country (but where isnt that the case?) but services like Revenue, passports, driver license are a lot more customer friendly here than where i come from.
Here they seem to actually want to help you while i am used to be treated as a nuisance at home at those particular offices.

jester77 wrote: »

It's awesome now, hands down one of the best services I have used online, anywhere. It is now so painless. Previously I would have to get photos taken somewhere, get a Notar to sign forms, send it all off to the embassy in Berlin, they would forward to Dublin who would then send the passport to Berlin and they would send it to me. Was a lot of effort.

Now I just take a selfie, upload it to the site and 3 days later I have it delivered. You can't get any better than that. Kudos to the government on this one.

Fair play to them so. I have a brother in England and for his last renewal he had to travel to London to apply for a renewal in person.

Winning_Stroke wrote: »

Completely different and you know it. The passport is recognised internationally as a physical representation of your citizenship of a state. Why should I have to pay for that? Next you'll want us to pony up for our PPS number

What rubbish. Every country in the world charges for passports.

It's not a representation of your citizenship it's a document giving you the right to travel to other countries and only required if you choose to travel so it's only right that you have to pay for it as you actually don't need one to live in the state or interact with the government.

However you do need a PPS number to live in the state and there's no charge for that as it's a state imposed requirement.

kickfacer wrote: »

You're comparing apples and oranges.

No I'm comparing what was quoted above.

Also never got that phrase. Why can’t apples and oranges be compared.

Both are fruits, both have outer skin, both have seeds etc.

kickfacer wrote: »

Yeah and that's where the similarities end. Despite everything they have in common, one is still and apple and one is still an orange. They are not the same.

That's what comparison is about.

Collie D wrote: »

What the **** are you even arguing about?!

The price of oranges compared to passports and how apples don't have PPS numbers even though PPS is in the word.

Mine expires in June next year and I want to get back to Southeast Asia in August and worrying in case get stuck there and it runs out.

Might just have to apply for a British one instead. Fuming.

Tazio wrote: »

agreed... it's a great service... although I did struggle to get a good enough photo using the old phone.... the website didn't think I was bright enough...

I was using a new enough phone and had issues with the photo too.

Applied online last Tuesday, arrived Monday.

I ordered book and card renewal on Sunday, and it's in the post on the way to europe this afternoon. Should probably have it by friday or monday. Great service!

Just Google passport renewal

Yup, I ordered on sunday, it's already in the post from yesterday. I'm on the continent so it'll take a couple days more for the local post to get it and deliver it.

Maybe there's a problem with the photo you submitted, and it's gone for some kind of manual review. The DFA website has a chat option and phone numbers. I guess keep hammering them until you get an answer.

Slightly concerning - the next passport to apply for will be an irish one for my daughter. She'll first get a local passport of the country we are in, but we also are "entitled" to get her an irish one. We were thinking of waiting until we were back in Ireland to apply as it'll be easier to get it signed/witnessed at a gardai station.

yea got same reply as u on friday thats its at checking stage, trying to get through to them again today, due to fly thursday gonna be very tight. dont understand how my wifes was processed and delivered within 3days, and im nearly two weeks now. we both applied the same day

@scamh did ye make it out?

Hi guys,

For those that recently applied online for pp renewal, when you checked the online tracker, did it give an accurate delivery date?

Ive applied to renew my sons, but it’s showing a 9 week delivery date. Travelling in 8 weeks so panicking a bit! Will try get in contact with pp office tomorrow to clarify.

That tracker is an absolute waste of time. They really should not give a progress bar when it does not relate in any way, shape or form to the steps they complete in the process, the date is plucked from the air. Anyway I'm currently on hold trying to get some movement on the baby's passport which I had to resubmit the witness form for - they said the original witness was "uncontactable" (which I think translates to "we don't know how to call a UK number" as she has no missed calls!). We started the online app in May and only a few weeks ago they started processing. The current pie in the sky date is 26/10/21 - I need it for next Friday or only half of us will be at the brothers wedding!

In positive news more directly related to this thread, the wife's renewal went through without a hitch and was delivered to our UK address while we were on holiday so I can't say how quick it was but I am utterly shocked at the efficiency - good shocked.