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archive for Jan 2005

passport shenanigans [part03]
06 January 2005

this time – “posting the application” having got my irish passport application form all correctly filled in, the photographs taken and endorsed and my old passport hunted down, it was time to bundle everything together and send it off to the irish embassy in london for processing. the irish government website says to allow four [...]

passport shenanigans [part02]
05 January 2005

today… “the endorsement” one of the many things that gets on my wick about this whole passport application procedure is this business about having to get someone from a ‘respected profession’ to endorse your passport photographs. whilst i appreciate that there has to be some kind of ‘proof of identity’, this way of doing it [...]