More Than 1,900 Clare People On Passport Waiting List As Backlogs Continue

More than 1,900 people in Clare remain on waiting lists to receive passports.

Figures released to the Oireachtas show 12,158 applications have been made to the Passport Office from this county so far in 2022.

Of those, 1,973 remain in the system, with more than 1,200 currently being processed and a further 710 requiring further information from the applicant.

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Over 623,000 passports have been issued to date in 2022, which is a 20 percent increase at this point of the year back in 2019.