Parents and witnesses signing forms on different dates and uncontactable witnesses are the two biggest hold-ups in securing a child’s passport, it has emerged.
A TD revealed the news following a summer of hell when many families missed holidays because new passports didn’t arrive on time due to mistakes unwittingly made on application forms
Cavan-Monaghan TD Niamh Smyth said Oireachtas members are inundated with hundreds of complaints, queries and requests for help from the public every year in relation to passport applications, reports Irish Mirror.
