2,700 Kildare Passport Applications Outstanding.

Saturday, 18 September 2021 09:20

File image: passport/Dept. of Foreign Affairs.

Its the second highest figure in Ireland.

There are more passport applications from Kildare outsanding that virtually every other county in Ireland.

The Dept. of Foreign Affairs has confirmed 2,700 applications, submitted online from Kildare people are "under process".

There is only one county with a higher number of applications in the system - Down, with 3,500.

The department notes that "The Passport Service has received nearly 500,000 applications in 2021 to date."

The current turnaround times are 10 working days for Simple Adult renewals, 15 working days for Complex renewals, 40 working days for First Time applications on Passport Online and 8 weeks for Passport Express for applications which have been completed correctly.

The approximate number of complete Passport Online book applications per county under process currently in the system is set out in the following table.

DONEGAL	1,300
DOWN	3,500
DUBLIN	1,600
FERMANAGH	400
GALWAY	2,600
KERRY	1,300
KILDARE	2,700
KILKENNY	800
LAOIS	800
LEITRIM	300
LIMERICK	1,900
LONGFORD	300
LOUTH	1,500
MAYO	1,200
MEATH	2,300
MONAGHAN	500
OFFALY	700
ROSCOMMON	500
SLIGO	600
TIPPERARY	1,400
TYRONE	1,200
WATERFORD	1,200
WESTMEATH	800
WEXFORD	1,400
WICKLOW	1,700

These figures are correct to 3 September 2021.

There are currently approximately 9,463 paper based applications in the system. It is not possible to break these down by county.

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