Digital Passenger Declaration to Replace Incoming Passenger Card

[kpc]

I just did this twice ahead of our flights next week. After I did mine which took about 10 mins, +1 handed me her phone to do hers as well!
Have the following ready : Your scanned passport, international Covid vaccination pdf file, dates of all your vaccination doses and type and all flight details. This will make it a seamless process. Then download the completed form onto your phone or print....I wish the idiots who decided we need to do this digital form realise not everyone has access to a printer on the road!

 

[Lynda2475]

Why does it need to be printed? I'm flying home on Wed and I don't have access to a printer (nor would I have had access at home before I left).

If it's digital, it should actually be digital. If govt wants a printed copy they can go and buy a printer.

 

[Scr77]

I wish the idiot's who decided we need to do this digital form realise not everyone has access to a printer on the road!

The stupidity of being told to print a form while on holiday made me see red! Needed to show proof at checkin, but wasn’t asked to show on arrival.

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Why does it need to be printed? I'm flying home on Wed and I don't have access to a printer (nor would I have had access at home before I left).

If it's digital, it should actually be digital. If govt wants a printed copy they can go and buy a printer.

Just take a screenshot of the submission page. It has a reference number and summary details.

 

[Lynda2475]

So why not just scan the QR code on the international vax certificate and your passport at check-in? I mean if that is good enough on the way out should be good enough to return.

Guess I need to be prepared for an argument at check in when I explain digital means digital and not paper.

 

[Mwenenzi]

So why not just scan the QR code on the international vax certificate and your passport at check-in? I mean if that is good enough on the way out should be good enough to return.

Guess I need to be prepared for an argument at check in when I explain digital means digital and not paper.

The DPD is a little more than CV19 QR code and passport. If you do not have the DPD completed you will not board. Are reports of people trying to start/complete at check-in. Some succeed - some fail.

If you do a 2nd PDP you do it *all* again. Govt IT boffin's not smart enough to have the software remember it and just change the flight details.
And anyway for most jabbed AU residents the vaccination data is already on a AU govt data base (immunisation register) .

Are different versions of the international vax cert's. As the other thread AU do not use the same format as EU. NZ does used the EU format.

 

[kpc]

This digital form is ageist...there is absolutely no way my elderly parents could fill this form by themselves! I guess one of us will have to do it all for them from a distance then email the completed pdf to them....this government has lost the plot big time!

 

[Amanad78]

This digital form is ageist...there is absolutely no way my elderly parents could fill this form by themselves! I guess one of us will have to do it all for them from a distance then email the completed pdf to them....this government has lost the plot big time!

Yes, my parents had to get their neighbour to do it for them, there's no way they could've done it themselves. My dad said if he had to do it on his own he wouldn't be able to come to Australia.

 

[Princess Fiona]

Why does it need to be printed? I'm flying home on Wed and I don't have access to a printer (nor would I have had access at home before I left).

If it's digital, it should actually be digital. If govt wants a printed copy they can go and buy a printer.

It doesn’t need to be printed at all.

The most infuriating thing for me is that if you have your Vaccine cert saved on your phone wallet you can’t enter it seamlessly. It wants you to scan the QR code.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

So why not just scan the QR code on the international vax certificate and your passport at check-in? I mean if that is good enough on the way out should be good enough to return.

Guess I need to be prepared for an argument at check in when I explain digital means digital and not paper.

Agree!

I had mistakingly thought the PDP was the full arrivals declaration… customs etc, replacing the orange form.

Realising it wasn’t that… I thought ‘what’s the point?’ The aussie govt has spent probably hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop the app which seems largely redundant when your vaccine certificate would do.

They might have updated the final screen but when i did it a few days ago they said either print the summary page OR take a screenshot. I did the latter.

I used my airline’s ‘verified to fly’ service. I dunno if that uploaded that I had completed the PDP? I wasn’t asked for the vaccine certificate or copy of the PDP at checkin or any other stage of the journey. If that’s the case the app streamlined checkin (which took all of two minutes at the airport).

 

[auriga]

It doesn’t need to be printed at all.

The most infuriating thing for me is that if you have your Vaccine cert saved on your phone wallet you can’t enter it seamlessly. It wants you to scan the QR code.

I thought the most infuriating thing was after uploading the vaccine cert, then having to fill in the details for each of the vaccine dose!

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Sorry if I have missed answer to this Q earlier in this thread but is procedure for return to Australia each trip require the same uploading process or is a certain amount of date retained and auto fill for you?

 

[Mwenenzi]

Sorry if I have missed answer to this Q earlier in this thread but is procedure for return to Australia each trip require the same uploading process or is a certain amount of date retained and auto fill for you?

Nope. Start again from scratch for each trip. No data retained.

 

[OATEK]

Sorry if I have missed answer to this Q earlier in this thread but is procedure for return to Australia each trip require the same uploading process or is a certain amount of date retained and auto fill for you?

Nope. Start again from scratch for each trip. No data retained.

As the client facing elements are probably outside the fully protected environment, they are not willing to keep it stored there. A number of agencies, state and federal, take this approach to the client facing portals.

 

[Kiwi_Flyer]

Nope. Start again from scratch for each trip. No data retained.

Start from scratch for each Oz arrival. My trip to UK via Oz required 2 declarations.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

I thought the most infuriating thing was after uploading the vaccine cert, then having to fill in the details for each of the vaccine dose!

I thought this too… but if using an aussie vax certificate it does actually upload all the details… you have to keep scrolling down the page and hit enter. If you hit the ‘submit’ button or whatever at the top of the page it clears all the data.

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

This is going to be a nightmare for little old ladies like me !!

 

[MEL_Traveller]

This is going to be a nightmare for little old ladies like me !!

And me! But don’t worry… it’s actually really easy! Scanning the passport, the selfie, the vax cert QR… the app is pretty intuitive and has a pretty generous allowance in terms of the camera scanning any codes or pages.

 

[Pushka]

And me! But don’t worry… it’s actually really easy! Scanning the passport, the selfie, the vax cert QR… the app is pretty intuitive and has a pretty generous allowance in terms of the camera scanning any codes or pages.

If they don’t let us out without vaccination then why do we have to do all this? The expectation that people have internet within a specific time period is ridiculous.

To get out of Oz all we need to do is Vax certificate, passport and tickets as per normal?

 

[mrsterryn]

At what stage are we told that we need to do this new app?
So so sounding old lol but it really was easier pre covid to have a quick trip

 

[Mwenenzi]

If they don’t let us out without vaccination then why do we have to do all this?

That requirement for the un-vaccinated to get a travel expemption to leave AU went away on 18 April.

Unvaccinated Australian citizens and permanent residents leaving Australia

Information for unvaccinated Australian citizens and permanent residents wanting to leave Australia.

www.homeaffairs.gov.au

Unvaccinated Australian citizens and permanent residents can leave Australia without an individual travel exemption.

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At what stage are we told that we need to do this new app?
So so sounding old lol but it really was easier pre covid to have a quick trip

Can do the DPD online. But still needs to be done.