If she still has the old passport in her possession and it’s not expired (ie in-date) then she can use that one.Hi.
In a potential mess of my own making really . With two months remaining on both our passports I decided on 11th May to do online renewals . ( wet afternoon nothing better to do ). Very simple process and my new passport arrived promptly forty hours later . However my wifes passport has failed to arrive and the online tracker shows a processing date of May 25th . It so happens that we are due to fly to Portugal early on the morning of 25th .
My question is . Will her existing passport be valid up until the date the new one is issued and if so can we travel on 25th on old passport and have new one sent to us by family for our return trip if it arrives while we are away.
My big fear is that new passport will issue on 24th thereby invalidating the old one but will not be delivered in time.
Thanks for reading.
You legally don’t require a passport to travel to or enter Portugal from Ireland.
Travelling to Portugal - ePortugal.gov.pt
ePortugal, the central portal for Public Administration services.eportugal.gov.pt
However, It may be a requirement of the airline. Check with them. While your passport may be valid on the date, usually the same document must still be valid for the return trip, again not a legal requirement but could be airline enforced.
Not true if you are Irish and traveling from Ireland. And it says so on the page that you have linked:You legally don’t require a passport to travel to or enter Portugal from Ireland.
Travelling to Portugal - ePortugal.gov.pt
ePortugal, the central portal for Public Administration services.eportugal.gov.pt
Thanks Itchy.
Strange that on Department of foreign affairs website it states clearly that you must have a valid passport to enter Portugal.
Have you tried contacting passport office. For valid reasons like travel date they might expedite processing....Hi.
In a potential mess of my own making really . With two months remaining on both our passports I decided on 11th May to do online renewals . ( wet afternoon nothing better to do ). Very simple process and my new passport arrived promptly forty hours later . However my wifes passport has failed to arrive and the online tracker shows a processing date of May 25th . It so happens that we are due to fly to Portugal early on the morning of 25th .
My question is . Will her existing passport be valid up until the date the new one is issued and if so can we travel on 25th on old passport and have new one sent to us by family for our return trip if it arrives while we are away.
My big fear is that new passport will issue on 24th thereby invalidating the old one but will not be delivered in time.
Thanks for reading.
Good luck with that! They’re virtually uncontactable of late.Have you tried contacting passport office. For valid reasons like travel date they might expedite processing....
Thanks for reply.W200 when you are in the process of applying for the passport - in your situation where it was about to expire, there is a section that says it will expire on the day of the new issue passport. So say, as you suggest, your wife's new passport was printed/issued on the 24th and you take the flight to Portugal on the 25th with the almost expired one if it is swiped by immigration on arrival in Portugal - which is the norm it will show up as cancelled - unless there is a delay in info of the databases going out to EU states.
As someone else has said the office is virtually uncontactable . If you do manage to contact them then they will not address any issues regarding an online application that is " in process "Have you tried contacting passport office. For valid reasons like travel date they might expedite processing....
Thanks so much for that piece of information tommygirl . Its a great relief to know that there is a grace period between issue of new passport and the cancellation of the old one. I had visions of it being cancelled as we were travelling. There is about six weeks remaining on the old one which well covers us for the holiday .If your old passport has not yet expired your existing one will be valid for 4 weeks after new one issues.
Hope this helps
You do not need to send your current passport. If you renew an Irish passport, the previous one will be cancelled within 4 weeks of when you receive your new passport.Renewal - Department of Foreign Affairs
Check what documents you need to submit to renew an Irish adult passportwww.dfa.ie
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