Ordered Monday Afternoon, arrived this morning (Wednesday). Just want to praise our passport office for being the most efficient sector in our country. Well done.
Ordered Monday Afternoon, arrived this morning (Wednesday). Just want to praise our passport office for being the most efficient sector in our country. Well done.
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Tell that to the first time apply’ers.
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Similar experience here, I want whoever runs this dept to train every other government dept.
Boss almost identical experience. Applied Sunday night (IN CANADA!!) and got the renewed passport on Tuesday afternoon in the post. Unbelievable.
Renewals are easy, first passports are hard. My sister tried to get her son a passport for a trip to Spain recently, she ordered it 3 months before the the trip, had to cancel the trip because it didn’t get there in time.
Renewed mine last month. Filled out the application on a sunday evening, got the passport wednesday morning. Fair play to them
It must be a renewal because the issuances are chaos. They had to issue 3 to my missus as they got it wrong twice.
Emigrant express.
Funny the only department in the country that works is the one that allows you to leave.
It’s decent when you renew online alright. My one complaint about the new passports though is that the cover isn’t nearly as heavy duty as the previous passport I had. That cover was sturdy AF, I fear tearing the cover of this one if it gets catch in the pocket of my jeans as I’m rushing to pull it out for inspection (the passport, not me flute).
Have a couple British colleagues, took them the best part of six months to get theirs, and they had to go in-person to the embassy. Shocked that I did mine all online, and had it under two weeks later.
Same happened me and I ordered mine on New Year’s Eve I wasn’t expecting to have it back to me for weeks, the online application form has really made the office efficient
I’m familiar with the company(s) that built the passport system. The process for renewal is fully automated as long as all your details are the same – all the way through to priming and sending – hence it works!
If anything has changed (eg married etc) or a first time passport, humans get involved, and hence….delays & inefficiency!
Mine arrived within 21 hours from time of payment. Faster than Amazon.
Cheers OP. You just reminded me that mine is nearly up and need to renew it!!!
Would be nice if I had anywhere to fly to, but sure.
Damn, in Germany I waited 6 weeks for the appointment and 3 weeks for the document. Amazing thats so quick at yours!
If you’ll Irish only Knew how blessed you’ll are.
Can take up to 6 months in my country, with NO reason for it to not take more than a week or two.
Is everyone just skipping over the fact you rip open envelopes like that?
I gotta say this is a sentence I never expected to read written unironically
I ordered mine at 10pm and it was shipped before lunch the next day. Credit where it’s due
Woow in germany thry say its gonna take 5 months but we know its gonna take even longer to renew the passport
The most efficient system in Ireland is the one that helps you leave! 🙂
Seriously though, fair play to the Passport Office, ordered my replacement on a Bank Holiday Monday, had it in my hand on Wednesday. Amazing!
Same experience I ordered mine Friday evening after 5.00 it arrived Tuesday morning.
It’s software and near complete automation. Keeping humans out of the process is what speeds it up.
They are very good, praise where it’s due.
The granny was giving out to me to renew my passport back in the summer but I said I’d wait and did it in October, (didn’t need it till last weekend anyway). Applied on Saturday morning and it arrived on the Thursday (to NI).
I’ve just applied for my first passport here in the UAE on Friday morning. Looking forward to it
Got it in 23 hours recently. Such an epic service.
Meanwhile over at the FBR…
And An Post
Ordered my son’s Canadian passport in July. Arrived last week after 4 phone calls to the passport office.
So jealous. I live in Ireland for nearly 16 years but I am a Polish citizen. It took me 3 months to get an appointment in the embassy to apply for the passport. I had to take professional photos and it is only in person service so I had to travel to Dublin from Limerick. Then it took 5 months for it to arrive and I had to pick it up in person in Dublin. Thank god I don’t have to do it for another ten years but it really annoyed me. I wish Poland was the same and did everything online. Even in Poland is still in person. So backwards
Yup, I became an Irish citizen and got my passport and both processes were incredibly easy.
Yeah I got mine delivered to London very quickly. Very pleased!
I’m glad it came quickly! Exciting travels coming up?
Passports work but the visa system does not, it is very slow and broken
Had a great experience renewing passport, New passport for daughter on the other hand absolute nightmare. Started process in February finally got passport start of October
Same with myself earlier this year. I went for the passport and the passport card together.
Had them within I think it was 5 working days.
Unless you’re ordering a first time passport for a child. In which case it is the SLOWEST Government department
Perhaps they should next be in the business of building houses!?
Give it 6 months for all those last minute passport applications.
Is this a piss take? This is a renewal. Renewals are not the problem.
The problem is new passports. Where is the “well oiled machine” now ? These posts are ridiculous.
Bank transfers in Ireland take more time than that sometimes 