How to quickly get an appointment to renew your passport

• The deadlines for filing an identity document renewal file remain very long.

• It is nevertheless possible to find appointments at the town hall at short notice.

• Despite everything, the production time of the titles remains between 3 to 8 weeks depending on the region.

Is there an area where the coronavirus outbreak hasn't done any damage?

It is in particular because of the measures taken to stem the Covid-19 that many French people have found themselves without valid identity papers, for lack of having been able to renew them.

As a result, for the past few months, town halls have been overwhelmed by requests for appointments to file a passport or identity card renewal file.

The available dates are mechanically postponed to Greek calendars.

Have the emergency measures announced by the government to remedy this situation borne fruit?

Those who wanted to go abroad in July without having largely anticipated the renewal of their passport had to retreat to a more local destination.

The tropics will be for next summer.

On the other hand, all is not necessarily lost for the Augustians.

Certainly, if it remains possible to travel within the European Union with a French passport expired less than 5 years ago.

However, you will have to travel by car and certainly not by plane.

Outside the EU, it is better not to try your luck.

To be in the nails, the town hall box remains essential to file your file and have our biometric data recorded.

The effects of the emergency plan are not being felt

When we mentioned the subject, it was impossible to get an appointment at the town hall before September, almost everywhere in France.

Except that this Monday,

was able to see that dates had been released much earlier.

Thanks to the "Quickly my passport" platform, developed by Guillaume Rozier on the same model as the "Quickly my dose" site, we have quick access to the appointments available at the town hall.

And there, surprise, several times the dates of July 12 or 13 were offered to us in the North, but also in Île-de-France, in Gironde or in the PACA region.

To verify that it was not a bug,

pushed the process to validate an appointment on July 13, at 11:05 a.m., in the town hall of Annœulin, in the North.

We then contacted the town hall by telephone and we were able to confirm our appointment in person.

However, such close dates remain rare and getting an appointment within two days is a matter of luck.

Is it thanks to the means of the emergency plan put in place by the government?

Clearly, no.

contacted the town halls offering short-term dates and all confirmed to us that these were slots released after cancellations.

“When in doubt, people make several appointments in different town halls and do not necessarily think of canceling the others.

This is also what generates the shortage, ”explained a civil status official from a northern municipality.

There remains the great unknown of the production time of the identity document requested.

Contacted on this subject, the prefectures of Nord and Pas-de-Calais have not yet responded.

But on this subject, the town halls are very well informed since they are the ones who receive them.

In the North, the “normal” period of 10 to 15 days has increased to 3 weeks or even a month.

Worse, in Gironde, we were told between 6 and 8 weeks to obtain his passport.

“We can reduce this period to 5 to 10 days by presenting proof of travel”, we are nevertheless assured in a small town near Bordeaux.

A risky bet, however, that it is perhaps better not to attempt.

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