Passport Renewal / Application - Time Taken?

[Julesmac]

And it is still in Dandenong !!

Most recent update​

Item processed at facility
DANDENONG SOUTH VIC
Date & time Wed 6 Apr, 10.08pm

I live only 3 suburbs away and was waiting for 10 days for a parcel to arrive. I suspect there's something very attractive about that facility that makes the parcels want to linger.....

 

[jakeseven7]

My daughter's passport arrived on Tuesday. So that was 2.5 weeks from the application date.

My son's passport application is still ongoing.

My mum got hers (Perth) in 2.5 weeks.

I don't know why the Passport Offices are saying 6 weeks, I now know 3 people - all got them within 3 weeks....

The AFF article seems a bit off....?

 

[lovetravellingoz]

My mum got hers (Perth) in 2.5 weeks.

I don't know why the Passport Offices are saying 6 weeks, I now know 3 people - all got them within 3 weeks....

The AFF article seems a bit off....?

The Passport Office indicates "You should allow up to 6 weeks to receive a passport, no matter where you apply. A child passport without full parental consent takes much longer.".

It looks like some get them a lot quicker, and some not.

 

[Ho Really]

My mum got hers (Perth) in 2.5 weeks.

I don't know why the Passport Offices are saying 6 weeks, I now know 3 people - all got them within 3 weeks....

The AFF article seems a bit off....?

Same here and didn't even require me to sign. The wife living at a different address applied on the same day and at the same PO got hers a day later. A friend will get his after Easter (tracking number), again about 14-17 days which I think (a fortnight) has been the normal case for many years. So they are doing a reasonable job. Cheers

 

[hhewison]

My partner applied for a tourist visa to Australia. He previously had a premanent residence visa, and has visited Australia many times with me.
As an Indonesian he could not apply for an evisa which takes 24 hours to process.
He had to fill out a 19 page application and submitted copies of 14 documents. He was told no medical was required.
3 weeks later immigration requested a medical that had to be done by an authorised panel. The nearest medical panel is 1,000 kms away in Bali.
Processing time was estimated at 90% processed in 11 months. This was changed this month to 90% processed 20 months. For a tourist visa.
In his application it asked for reasons for express processing.
He mentioned he was required to travel with me as I was going to visit doctors in Australia for heart and kidney tests. The appointments were in 1 month.
Well the appointments have come and gone. I didn't go. His visa application is now 6 weeks old and the immi website informs me that 90% of applications for this visa will be processed in 20 months.

 

[Jean Prouvaire]

Data point:

25 March - submitted my passport renewal at an Australia Post branch. Did not pay for the rush service as my departure date was (is...? will be...?) eight weeks later.

8 April - got a "we've finalised your application for an Australian passport" email from Dept of Foreign Affairs & Trade, including a tracking number.

13 April - passport delivered.

 

[offshore171]

Looking at some of these posts, I now see that renewing my passport last year, with a 2-week turnaround as it turned out, was a such a good idea.

Yes I did likewise, submitted the renewal during the October 2021 lockdown, even though my current passport had about 8 months left.

I don't like being without a current passport, and I figured that the passport office was going to get swamped with renewals once the floodgates were reopened for international travel.

Back in October, the passport people must have been all sitting around twiddling their thumbs, because the new one came back in under 2 weeks.

 

[I love to travel]

I rang them. It is being finalised and she gave me a dare to ring back if I hadn't got any more notifications from them.

 

[Beano]

All government departments and postal systems are fickle at the best of times. Sometimes they " exceed expectations" and deliver early, and sometimes they drag their heels. Enjoy the good times and complain bitterly when they don't deliver. Oh, and airlines!

 

[drron]

I live only 3 suburbs away and was waiting for 10 days for a parcel to arrive. I suspect there's something very attractive about that facility that makes the parcels want to linger.....

That has been going on for over 50 years. In my Uni Christmas holidays for the last 5 years of my course I was the Foreman of the student night shift. Some postal articles did take quite a few days to get through the sorting machine. Think of postcards with naked human bodies. Then one thing we were taught was how to stop the sorting machine working. It was very well used by all the shift workers.

 

[DC3]

It seems that some AFFers like to sail close to the wind on their passport renewals, assuming that it will all come together just before departure.

 

[I love to travel]

It seems that some AFFers like to sail close to the wind on their passport renewals, assuming that it will all come together just before departure.

To be fair I am leaving 9 weeks before application and departure.

 

[JohnPhelan]

I submitted my passport renewal at the post office in mid-March. Exactly two weeks later, I got a text from the Passport Office saying the new passport had been issued and was on its way via registered mail. It took another two working days to make it to me, so the whole process took just under three weeks.

 

[MH_fan]

I put my application in at the end of March, 10 weeks before I'm due to fly. Let's hope it doesn't take that long!

 

[lovetravellingoz]

To be fair I am leaving 9 weeks before application and departure.

Yes I applied just over 9 weeks before departure for myself so as to provide a safety buffer on top of the 6 weeks that it is meant to be concluded within.

 

[jakeseven7]

I put my application in at the end of March, 10 weeks before I'm due to fly. Let's hope it doesn't take that long!

Based on 3 people I’ve personally known getting them within 3 weeks you should be fine.

 

[CaptJCool]

Passports for children have always taken a bit longer as there are more back of house checks that need to be performed.

Yep

especially if separated parents and the serious risk that one parent will “abscond” with child to some far flung country from which it’s impossible to extricate nor extradiate minors....

see Australian Federal Police international travel Family Law Watchlist Family law kit

also

International family law and children

Families who are split across international borders face unique challenges.

www.ag.gov.au

 

[AustSerbKor]

Applied for my daughter's Australian passport on the 4th of March. I still haven't received a text message. Tbh it annoys me her Korean passport can be issued in 3 days for $40 but her Australian is at 6 weeks and counting. Why in 2022 isn't the whole process digital? They could have implemented digital procedures in the last 2 years when application numbers were low. We don't travel until June so there is still time.

 

[Rnash]

I submitted mine with 9 weeks to go before flight. At 6 weeks now and rang up the PP office to see what was taking so long. They said the "6 weeks turnaround" is from when they receive it in the mail, and they had only had it for 26 days. Doing the maths it has sat with Auspost for 2 weeks, completely incompetent. So I'd say if you have any less than 11 weeks pay for rush service if you are posting it.

 

[DC3]

Yeah. Get in early folks. Not worth the pain of leaving it "late".