Desperate help - passport expired, travel on Wednesday

[Nowanextraone]

I feel sick. I don't understand how we have overlooked this as we renewed 2 of our other children's passports, but we've just seen our daughter's passport expired in January.

We are fucked aren't we? It says a child's passport can only be renewed urgently in a week.
I feel sick

Insurance won't even pay will it as it's our fault.

Just go, you've made the mistake of talking to somebody. Just make an appointment online, and turn up. Take birt certificates, school reports, anything you have that make it certain she is your daughter. If you don't try you don't get.

No one said they were ogres but they can't just have pity and ignore all the rules because they feel sorry for you. If they just ignored the rules then I'd be very surprised if they weren't all fired.

The simple fact is that children's passport cannot be renewed using the 24 hour option as confirmed by the website, multiple posters and the OP and to say otherwise is just giving others who may read your post false hope.

The OP is doing the right thing and hopefully it will be back soon but it's sometimes best to be realistic about the situation.

Can you get your money back or re-schedule?

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@Kjpt140v
You can’t just turn up. Op has made an appointment. But yes, the advice to take your dd and birth certificate is good. My dd went to her passport appointment and the woman said she struggled to recognise her but accepted it was dd. Dh also took his passport. It was her first adult passport btw, which is also only on a 7 day. As I said upthread applied for on Weds, arrived Fri, 2 weeks ago.

If there’s any way both you and your partner can attend the appointment (with your passports for ID to show it’s nothing dodgy), I’d tell them all this and absolutely beg if there’s any way it could be expedited and you can collect in person rather than via post: to guarantee you get it. There are official positions and then human kindness and sometimes if you really plead your case politely, they might be able to make an exception, even if it’s bending the official rules. Failing that, how much would it cost to move your flights back a few days (or for one of you to and the other go ahead with other kids). Looks like others have got it on day 4.

Are you a child?

Is rescheduling the holiday a possibility to next summer instead?

Just an idea, but can you travel to Ireland without a passport?

What good would traveling to Ireland do?

They would still get to go on a family holiday, abroad (if they can afford that)

Don’t loose hope OP, it’s good that you have the appointment. Of course they can’t make promises but hopefully they can rush it through 🤞

This @Nowanextraone It’s a long shot given the official stance you’ve been told over the phone but there’s also still a chance on the day that you might find a more flexible/sympathetic approach from the person you see. There’s absolutely no harm in trying everything at this point!
wishing you lots and lots of luck

Wouldn’t it make more sense for one of you to travel with other DC and you book two extra flights when PP arrives?

You would lose less money that way surely and everyone gets a holiday.

Worse case scenario- one adult and one child goes on holiday, the other adult and daughter await the passport, so halving your losses is possible straightaway. Can do a little smoke and mirrors to explain this to your daughter. Once the passport arrives, check out price of flights and book as long as not horribly expensive.

OP- maybe contact the holiday company first thing tomorrow and ask them how much it would be move the holiday dates? Explaining everything to them , they may be able to do it and it might not be as expensive as you may think.
If this is workable, then you wouldn’t have to worry about the passport arriving on time.

Perhaps the company will be understanding of the situation?

Ok, I managed this once thanks to the lovely people at Newport passport office. You need to get an emergency appointment, BOTH parents need to attend in person. Take every bit of documentation you have including you marriage cert, all both certs, evidence of your holidays dates and destination, all passports, address id and then beg!!!! The longer timeframe for kids is to protect against parental out of country without permission .

Do all this at your appointment tomorrow and they MIGHT take pity on you and help. Again….both parents must go and take everything single scrap of documentation you have and hope xxxx it’s totally their discretion for be super polite, patient and hope

have photos done and certified as well by someone before you go to appointment. Take non signed ones too. I had to get a child out of bed in PJs…we realised when doing online check in due ski trip.

Birth certificates too!!

Good luck OP 🤞

I don't understand why your DH and other child can't go as planned and you follow as soon as the passport is ready? Worse case scenario would be friday which means you only miss 2 days of your holiday, 5 days is better than nothing!

This happened to a friend of mine. They had to drive to where an appointment was available and possibly stay overnight but they got the passport sorted in time. Ring them first thing on Monday and be flexible about where you can drive to in order to sort it out.

i have everything crossed for you that it can by some chance arrive by Wednesday. It isn’t impossible, I’ve used the childs fast track service everytime for my kids and it’s never taken a week. Quickest was 2 working days and the longest was 4

Could you sell the holiday? That would give you some money for another break. You would need check whether names can be changed and to allow time to change names on bookings