New online passport renewal service to be unveiled tomorrow

The Government will tomorrow unveil a new online passport renewal service which, it hopes, will ease the pressure it is currently under in the face of unprecedented levels of applications.

Between January 1 and March 16 this year, a total of 191,428 applications were received compared to 155,163 for the same period last year. That is an increase of more than 23%.

As of last week, there were 60,000 applications in the system.