Expired Passport

STEINER said:
Time has a valid point. Any person should be aware when their passport is valid/close to expiry. It is too late really when you are booking a flight or checking in! I know not everyone uses email, maybe if an automated reminder went out 2 months prior to expiry date, I don't know if that is possible or currently exists. I am glad it all worked out for the sister in the end anyway.
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Passports last 10 years so the expiry date is not the sort of thing that you would be aware of.
In my past experience I have found the passport office to be excellent.
 
Purple said:
Passports last 10 years so the expiry date is not the sort of thing that you would be aware of.
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Agreed it happened to me this year as well, but lucky for me I have a Swiss one as well and the expiry dates are staggered :)
 
STEINER said:
Time has a valid point. Any person should be aware when their passport is valid/close to expiry. It is too late really when you are booking a flight or checking in! I know not everyone uses email, maybe if an automated reminder went out 2 months prior to expiry date, I don't know if that is possible or currently exists. I am glad it all worked out for the sister in the end anyway.
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this facility is available Steiner.
The Passport Reminder Service is a service which will send you a reminder by e-mail three months before your passport is due to expire. To register for this service, please click on the link below and input your name, e-mail address and the expiry date of your passport.
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http://www.dfa.ie/home/index.aspx?id=81861
 
When my son was born 16 years ago I had to have him put on my passport, so this meant a new passport for me. By the time mine expired (after 10 years) minors could get their own passports, so both my son and I got our new seperate passports.

The year before last, about 2 weeks before we were supposed to fly out I was flicking through everything making sure it was in order, when I checked my passport to make sure it was in order, i assumed his was too (as we had gotten ours together), alas I forgot, or actually I don't think I knew/realised that while mine was for 10 years, his was only for 5 years.

I realised 3 days before we flew and again it was down to chance as we were comparing the photos on the passports and the expiry year caught my eye.

I nearly dropped!! I immediately went into the PP office and had the passport in time, they were great, it was an expensive mistake to make all the same.
 
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