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Tampered with Passport, now being investigated

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  • 19-05-2016 5:50pm
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    daktarin25
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭


    17 years old here so of course i want to go to the club with my mates from time to time. so i decided to change the dating of my passport to 18 years so i could get in and it's worked. My problem is that I used to the same passport to apply for my driving license without realizing until after the fact. So now my falsified passport has been identified and I might be in a whole heap of ****. I've read up on some of the charges and it's given me little hope that it'll all blow over. I'm now being investigated for this so I kinda have no idea what to do right now.

    Any idea guys?
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    MarkAnthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    Contact a solicitor, they'll give you a brief over the phone consultation, usually for free. Then hold on and try to forget it until something happens. If you're arrested/invite and brought to a garda station (IIRC) at 17 you don't have a right to have a parent present.

    Make sure you DON'T SAY ANYTHING without having spoken to a solicitor first. They will advise further.

    Silly sausage - passports are not for tampering with or proving your age, learn from it.


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    FAILSAFE 00
    Registered Users Posts: 5,419 ✭✭✭FAILSAFE 00


    You should have tampered with a different type of ID for the club.

    Solid advice by the poster above.

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    MarkAnthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    I'm looking at the Passport Act 2008 - is that the correct and only source of law here?

    EDIT: OP don't be overly concerned Judges/Garda know a 17 year old doesn't have the sense they were born with.


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    Andrea B.
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    I would be curious to see what the result and method of your tampering was on a modern passport to be sufficent to get you in to a club?


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    Miaireland
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    I would guess that you probably get a massive lecture. I assume.you had the correct date of birth on the forms you submitted. They will most likely see you as a stupid idiot but not a criminal. The worse I guess will probably be that it will take your passport renew longer than most people as it will go through extra checks.


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