Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) & Apostille will be restarting their walk-in service this Monday

DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS (DFA) & APOSTILLE

will be restarting their walk-in service from Monday 30th January from their office at 42-47 Lower Mount Street.

A couple of notes on this:

• They are open on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Fridays. Their opening hours are 9.30am – 12.30pm, and 2.30pm – 3.30pm.
• They will be closed for a walk-in service on Wednesdays to allow them to process bulk batches of documents and post.
• Their Cork office is not open for the walk-in service.
• They are operating a soft launch service this week. So, any walk-in’s will be accepted.
• Their website will be updated to reflect the above.
• A maximum of 5 documents can be processed at the counter.
• More than 5 documents will be treated at the drop-off service, where they can return documents by collection / post. They will let the customer know when documents are ready for collection.
• If large bundles of documents are broken into smaller bundles by the same organisation, these will be treated as drop-off bundles as above. For example, if 20 documents are broken into 4 groups of 5 by the same company.

Also, to note, they will begin rejecting documents that are not sealed correctly where a corner wafer is in place.

If you are binding documents with a staple please make sure that this is secured. Documents must be securely bound. Where staples are being used you must ensure that you cover same so that they cannot be interfered with. There can be no “naked” staples.