Digital Passenger Declaration to Replace Incoming Passenger Card

[mrs.dr.ron]

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

DO you have the link for this ?

 

[CaptainCurtis]

DO you have the link for this ?

Australia Digital Passenger Declaration (DPD)

Australia Digital Passenger Declaration (DPD)

dpd.homeaffairs.gov.au

 

[Pushka]

I've done a dummy DPD with no dates, have loaded up passport so all bar travel and flights is complete etc but can't see where to load up the vaccination certificate.

 

[PeterA]

I did ours on the phone app which meant that you used your phone’s scanner to upload from the QR code on a physical copy of the vax certificate. I think it could have been painful without the physical copy though.

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

I've done a dummy DPD with no dates, have loaded up passport so all bar travel and flights is complete etc but can't see where to load up the vaccination certificate.

I tried to do that so my info was loaded up and ready for next month, but it wouldnt let me do it without flight details !

So I am now taking 2 Panadol and lying down !

 

[Pushka]

I tried to do that so my info was loaded up and ready for next month, but it wouldnt let me do it without flight details !

So I am now taking 2 Panadol and lying down !

Yeah. Same here.

 

[kyle]

So no one's got a hack on scanning the qr code from a photo yet with the DPD app?

 

[PeterA]

I initially tried using the photo on my iPad to no avail, but as mentioned, I had a hardcopy that worked.

 

[dajop]

What seemed to work best for me was attaching screenshots.

 

[AV8]

I tried to do that so my info was loaded up and ready for next month, but it wouldnt let me do it without flight details !

So I am now taking 2 Panadol and lying down !

I'm sure a lot of our senior Frequent Flyers would remember the saying " I'm going to have a cup of tea, take a Bex powder and go have a lie down" - brings back memories.

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

I'm sure a lot of our senior Frequent Flyers would remember the saying " I'm going to have a cup of tea, take a Bex powder and go have a lie down" - brings back memories.

Ha ha ! My grandfather had a Bex and a cup of tea every afternoon just in case he got a headache ! Living with my grandmother gave him the headache every afternoon !

 

[DC3]

Bex. The housewife’s drug of choice in the fifties and sixties.

 

[drron]

What I don't get is why we have to upload the vaccine certificate to this document when I already have it attached to my passport. Bureaucracy gone mad.

 

[Pushka]

What I don't get is why we have to upload the vaccine certificate to this document when I already have it attached to my passport. Bureaucracy gone mad.

It makes sense for non Aussie passport holders but I guess to do it for other holders and not Aus citizens is likely these days - discriminatory.

 

[drron]

It makes sense for non Aussie passport holders but I guess to do it for other holders and not Aus citizens is likely these days - discriminatory.

Though if you are a foreign passport holder living in Australia Medicare allows you to upload your vaccine certificate to your foreign passport.

 

[Pagans]

when filling this form in there are two options in regards while in transit or stopping . They say if in transit list all stops -the term transit means get off the plane and get back on the same plane or same flight number . Way down the page they refer to stopping now if this is the case they say just have the start country and finish-Australia . Why aren't these definitions together and explained ?

 

[Pushka]

Though if you are a foreign passport holder living in Australia Medicare allows you to upload your vaccine certificate to your foreign passport.

I'm thinking of tourists though.

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

What happens if you are an OAP with no mobile phone ?? or you have a mobile and no 14 year old grandson to load it up ?

 

[Lynda2475]

Ok so i just did my DPD using the app and it was dead simple, took about 3 minutes. Used my android phone to scan my passport photo page and rfid chip, take a selfie (first one failed, but moving in bathroom where there was better light saw second one accepted) and then scanned the printed copy of my international vax cert no problem (the one thing i had printed before i left home).

The longest bit was getting it to recognise my home address, the auto recognition didnt like the 99/99-99 street name format (kept dropping my unit number) so i had to manually enter full addy.

When came to print, i took a screen shot of the summary page, samsung phones smart enough to recognise that page was more than one screen and ensured image scrolled down to get all info.

Screen shot saved and ready for check in on Wednesday, which should b simple as Fiji Airways has a check in desk at the hotel, so i will have my boarding pass before i get to airport and they will delivery my checked bags.

Edited to add, for me it was actually easier than filling in the paper arrival card for Fiji as the font was so small on that (less tha 2pt) i couldn't read it even with glasses on, had to resort to using camera and zoom on my phone.

 

[Pushka]

Ok so i just did my DPD using the app and it was dead simple, took about 3 minutes. Used my android phone to scan my passport photo page and rfid chip, take a selfie (first one failed, but moving in bathroom where there was better light saw second one accepted) and then scanned the printed copy of my international vax cert no problem (the one thing i had printed before i left home).

The longest bit was getting it to recognise my home address, the auto recognition didnt like the 99/99-99 street name format (kept dropping my unit number) so i had to manually enter full addy.

When came to print, i took a screen shot of the summary page, samsung phones smart enough to recognise that page was more than one screen and ensured image scrolled down to get all info.

Screen shot saved and ready for check in on Wednesday, which should b simple as Fiji Airways has a check in desk at the hotel, so i will have my boarding pass before i get to airport and they will delivery my checked bags.

I'm not sure that your experience is all that replicable for older people or indeed many others who could simply fill in a piece of paper on the plane back. Think about the processes you needed to do and how someone say 60 plus or simply not into technology, might deal with this. Scanning passport page - my app wouldnt, selfie - why when there's a picture embedded in the passport details, and even then yours failed first time, address - doesn't recognise unit numbers, screen shot from a phone that knows to scroll down to capture it? iPhone doesn't. So now we have to have a Samsung? Vax certificate attached to passport anyway. Seems like someone in IT had too much time on their hands.