Finally some good news. I didn't receive any emails but I checked tracking and my passport was printed and dispatched today. Giving them a date to travel seems to have sped things up. No reason given as to why it took so long though.
Before I sent in my document, the passport office assured me that if the application took longer than expected, I could call them and ask them to post me my original passport back and they should be able to accomodate that, did you try that? Yeah so they put a note on my account with a date that I ...
If it's any consolation, I'm also stuck almost a month past the estimated issue date. Had to cancel flight tickets today as I mistakenly thought 3 months after getting my cert would be enough time to get the passport. Frustrating that they're holding hostage my original passport as well.
Looks like my application is stuck in a bit of a limbo, two weeks past the estimated date. Customer service said that there are no problems recorded, just that it's taking time. All my documents (including drivers license) were submitted in original, so not sure what's the delay about. I'll update i...
Where did you get this from? I'm seeing quite a few people who are Irish citizens by birth still waiting 3-4 weeks for their first passport as well. First-time passport applications seem to take about that long, but renewals are (usually) much quicker. Maybe I'm wrong here, because indeed it's the ...
Still don't understand why Irish-born citizens can apply for mostly automated online passport that takes less than a week to issue, but naturalized citizens have to send the same documents they've spent two years (sometimes more!) waiting to be verified. Inefficient at best and discriminatory at wor...
