I saw on DFA that the current average turnaround time for UK Passport Express is 15 days (I assume it’s a combination of first time applications and renewals), while in the Rep of Ireland it’s 23 days for first time application (the vast majority of which will be via Passport Express).brawn401 wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2019 11:42 pmYes it would certainly seem so. The package that arrived on my desk at work today was indeed my new Irish Passport. That is 12 working days fromSulla wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2019 12:02 am
That's great news for you and for everyone else in the U.K. in a position to avail themselves of the Passport Express service. Thank you for clearing up the earlier confusion on this point. The answer now seems quite clear: Passport Express can be used by applicants in the U.K. who want to get their hands on their Irish passport significantly faster.
It appearing on the tracker (14 from submission at Liverpool Passport Express) to receipt of Passport, which is better than I expected. It also answers the question definitively: if you are a first time applicant from the UK using FBR as your citizenship route, you CAN use the passport express service and it will be expedited in around the turnaround times they state on the website. Good luck to anyone using this service, hope it goes as smoothly for you as it did for me.
Well everyone, 11 months after getting the confirmation email from the DFA saying they had received my application, that is me done. Thanks to all who gave their support on this thread and the last one, I found it to be most helpful and nice to keep things in check in lieu of there being no online tracker for FBR applications.
Good luck to everyone still waiting for their FBR Approvals, or passports! I’ll still be lurking on here from time to time if anyone wants to ask me a question
And I was just told yesterday by them that it would take 2 weeks for my application to show up on the tracker. So that would be a total of 6.5 weeks from the application submission date. I hope it would work out much faster...