Passport question - URGENT!!! (1 Viewer)

[Gambra]

Off to England on Friday, flight on Ryanair. Do I HAVE to have my passport? It expired in August!! FUCK!!! Any other ID ok?

If I do have to go down tomorrow to the passport office, do I myself need to be there?

 

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Off to England on Friday, flight on Ryanair. Do I HAVE to have my passport? It expired in August!! FUCK!!! Any other ID ok?

If I do have to go down tomorrow to the passport office, do I myself need to be there?

I think you can use a full drivers license if you've got one of them. Check their website I'm there's a list on there somewhere.

Incidentally I managed to find my passport today, been missing for about six months. It was out of date but I need it to get a new one.

 

[Gambra]

I think you can use a full drivers license if you've got one of them. Check their website I'm there's a list on there somewhere.

Incidentally I managed to find my passport today, been missing for about six months. It was out of date but I need it to get a new one.

Shit, I don't drive. Or Got a licence.. Only photo ID I have is my stuent card

 

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Shit, I don't drive. Or Got a licence.. Only photo ID I have is my stuent card

I'm 99.9999% sure they don't accept student cards, sorry.

 

[Gambra]

Ah I knew that.. Fuck anyway.

 

[shidheat]

http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/faqs.php?sect=pid&quest=photoid

 

[dudley]

you can't just go to the passport office either, you'll need to get a long form birth cert, and bring a passport photo to your local garda station, who have to sign and stamp it.

maybe they make exceptions in emergencies, just phone the passport office first thing and see

 

[dudley]

incidentally, i can't remember the last time anyone in dublin airport actually gave my passport more than a cursory glance, so if worse come to worst you could just chance it, and play shocked if you get caught out

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Bump.

Is it safe/legal to send one's passport abroad in the post?
I may need to get a visa in London...

 

[Lili Marlene]

Well this doesn't sound dodgy at all.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Thinking of heading to Belarus in January, they've no embassy here so I need to work through their one in London or pay twice the price on arrival in Minsk... And more than likely a further bribe to the officials to ensure my visa is processed promptly.
Naturally I'm hesitant about sending such a document in the post.

 

[Squiggle]

Thinking of heading to Belarus in January, they've no embassy here so I need to work through their one in London or pay twice the price on arrival in Minsk... And more than likely a further bribe to the officials to ensure my visa is processed promptly.
Naturally I'm hesitant about sending such a document in the post.

Family members have had to send passports in the mail before - from Thailand to Ireland and back again, for Visas, but since it's London can you not make an appointment with their embassy there and take a day or two in London to get it sorted? If you're sitting at their front desk they might also get the visa sorted a bit more efficiently.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Family members have had to send passports in the mail before - from Thailand to Ireland and back again, for Visas, but since it's London can you not make an appointment with their embassy there and take a day or two in London to get it sorted? If you're sitting at their front desk they might also get the visa sorted a bit more efficiently.

I really hate London and it'll be an extra expense.
I'm thinking I might just risk showing up at the airport though, further research has revealed that the cost of visa there is only e90 for Irish citizens as they have no embassy here. Were I to send to London it would be £55 and a great amount more in anxiety. The only worry about that option is the aforementioned bribery.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Were I to send to London it would be £55

Isn't that like E75?

 

[Squiggle]

I really hate London and it'll be an extra expense.
I'm thinking I might just risk showing up at the airport though, further research has revealed that the cost of visa there is only e90 for Irish citizens as they have no embassy here. Were I to send to London it would be £55 and a great amount more in anxiety. The only worry about that option is the aforementioned bribery.

Ah, the hating London thing makes a difference. I quite like it there. Whether you post it or bring it in person you'd likely spend the €90 and have extra stress going the London route. Is bribery such a major problem in the airport in Belarus? I've been a few places that are generally pretty corrupt, but they don't seem to start before you've legally entered the country so the visa fee guys are always fair.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Isn't that like E75?

More or less, yeah. I misread the document originally, only citizens of states with Belarusian embassies have to pay e180, the rest of us are only charged e90.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Is bribery such a major problem in the airport in Belarus? I've been a few places that are generally pretty corrupt, but they don't seem to start before you've legally entered the country so the visa fee guys are always fair.

It's supposed to be a big problem within Belarus, I was guessing the airport wouldn't be any different. What you say reassures me somewhat though.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

DP.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I posted my passport to the indonesian embassy in new zealand once, it was fine, They rang me up and gave out to me for not sending it registered mail - you might want to do that.