Written answers
Thursday, 2 March 2017
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Passport Applications
Pat Deering (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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138. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if copy birth certificates are acceptable for passport applications as the originals have not been returned from INIS which were submitted with asylum applications. [10810/17]
Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael)
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The Passports Act, 2008 (the Act) makes provision for the regulation and issuance of passports. Under section 7(1)(b) of the Act, the Department must be satisfied as to the identity of a passport applicant before a passport can issue. An original birth certificate is a key, primary identity document to support a passport application and therefore a copy is not acceptable.
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