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Hi Thanks for the reply. Will I need some sort of identification though like a birth cert? Obviously I don’t have photo ID for him.

My son's passport went to printing Sunday afternoon we got it this morning in Cork, you should get it by Friday the latest.

When did you apply initially?, and when was your estimated Issue date.? Ours is the 31st of May but we have flights to travel on the 30th so praying they go to print today. Local TD made representations on our part and was confident we would get them this week but so far no update.

Thanks for the update, Mine just went to print at the 11.20 update delighted. Assume they should arrive now before Monday. Oh the stress of it all.

Just to let you know mine updated to dispatched on the 19.20 update this evening and I now have my tracker number so hoping for delivery tomorrow fingers crossed! Positive thoughts!

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 Three of the kids passports are out of date come the end of July.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?

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!

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.

Thanks for the reply @Caranica , understand it is a crystal ball questions :)

• Yes passport expired in 2020
• Applied online
• I wonder if I misspelt my mothers maiden name or I got randomly selected for extra scrutiny 🤔

That's it...I had a passport stolen about 20 years ago...I guess that is going to follow me around for life!!!

Do you think it could get further delayed 🤔

Does anyone have any good news or has anyone gotten 1st time children passport issued earlier than estimated date?

Need a bit of hope!!!

Apologises if this has been asked earlier on in thread just wondering have many people got TDs to contact passport office on their behalf and has this been successful?