Where can I use an Irish passport card?
I have recently supplemented my Irish passport with a passport card. This is a cute credit card sized thing that fits neatly in my wallet. According to the DFA site, it is valid in the EU, EEA, and Switzerland.
Does anyone have experience of using these cards? In the EU, EEA, elsewhere?
Best Answer
Montenegro accepts it, as stated in Timatic, the database used by Airlines. So do French overseas territories, North Cyprus and Moldova
As for the UK, your freedom of movement there, which has nothing to do with the EU and is already more absolute than that for other EEA nationals, will not be affected. As such I'm sure you'll be able to use your passport card post-Brexit, and that Irish passport books won't be stamped.
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Answer 2
In the UK and elsewhere they have scanned the code >>>>name<<< on the passport card in the same way as the code on the passport. As mentioned it will not work in the automatic gates but as most people use the gates in most airports, having it checked manually at a desk has sometimes been a bit quicker. No real problems apart from when they were still new and still a novelty for airline and passport control staff.
Answer 3
I was using an Irish passport card in one hotel in Benidorm.
The receptionist insisted it was only a I.D. card and would not listen.
She actually laughed out loud at my apparent stupidity.
However I succeeded in the end without an apology.
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