Need a new passport quickly? Avoid the delays and get your new passport in only 10 days for a charge of €8.50 - plus passport fee - by calling into your nearest Post Office.
How does it work?
Call into any one of our automated post offices and complete your application which we will deliver to the passport office for priority handling. Within 10 working days your new passport will be sent to you.
Step by step
- First pick up a passport application form at any Post Office or Garda Station
- Complete the relevant application certified by a Garda Witness
- Hand your application, and all relevant documentation, passport photos and signatures, in the special Passport Express envelope, (supplied at the point of transaction) to the counter clerk
- Pay Laser, cash or cheque (payable to An Post) with bankers card
- Keep the receipt the clerk gives you which includes a reference number (in case of a query)
Check which of the following options applies to you to ensure you enclose the correct documentation:
Are you renewing your passport (and don't need to change any personal details)?
- Enclose your most recent Irish passport or your Long Form Birth Certificate (plus other relevant documentation)
Are you applying for a new passport (and you're over 18 years of age)?
- Enclose your Long Form Birth Certificate (plus other relevant documentation)
Are you applying for a child's passport?
- Enclose their Long Form Birth Certificate (plus other relevant documentation)
- Note: Children under 3 years of age must apply for a three year passport. Children aged 3 to 17 must apply for a five year passport
- For children born since 1 January 2005 you must also submit the birth certificate or passport of one parent.
Have you changed your surname?
- Enclose your Civil Marriage Certificate (plus other relevant documentation)
What next?
Check when your passport expires, make a note in your diary and remember to enclose all relevant documentation. Group passports are also available.
For more information
For further information see full Terms and Conditions or contact the Post Office at Customer Service: 1850 57 58 59. Passport information for Munster (1890 426 900) or Rest of Ireland (1890 426 888).
If you are going on holiday and don't want your mail piling up while you're away, check out our MailMinder service which looks after all your post until your return
Terms and conditions
- Ensure you have correctly completed your Application Form, witnessed by a member of the Garda Siochana, your signature at section 8 and two signed identical passport sized photographs witnessed by a Garda Witness
- Photographs may be black and white or colour, should show head and shoulders, be in sharp focus with no shadows or glare on the image or background
- Photocopies of Certificates are not acceptable. Original (vault) copies should be provided in all cases
- Church Marriage Certificates are insufficient for a change of surname. The Civil Marriage Certificate issued by the State must be provided
- Children under 3 years of age must apply for a three year passport. Children aged 3 to 17 must apply for a five year passport
- All passport applications for people under the age of 18 must include their Long Form Birth Certificate, whether they hold a previous passport or not.
- First time applicants must include their Long Form Birth Certificate. All other applications must include the Long Form Birth Certificate or their most recent Irish passport for cancellation
- Sole Guardian Affidavit: Where a person is the sole guardian of a child an affidavit needs to be submitted. As there are different forms for different circumstances persons should contact the Passport Office for advice and to get the proper form.
- The Parental Consent Form (PAS M) cannot be witnessed by An Post staff
- Up to four family applications for passports can be enclosed in one single envelope where certificates are common to all
- Passport Express cannot guarantee delivery if required in less than 10 working days
- 10 working days guarantee excludes weekends and public holidays
- If 10 working days have elapsed since you applied or you are travelling in the immediate future please contact Customer Service
- The Passport Office will receive your details on the next working day after the date of application. The date of application, along with weekends and public holidays should not be included in the 10 working day turnaround
- The Passport Office will return your application if you have not followed the instructions correctly. In these cases the 10 working days guarantee does not apply.
Application forms
Available from all Garda stations and from Post Offices which provide the Passport Express service.
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