Travelling with a newborn

[Guest guest17520]

Hi All,

 

I'm hoping someone can give me some advice.

 

My wife, daughter and I are planning to go on holiday later in the year as we have seen some cheap flights in the Jetstar boxing day sales.

 

The problem we have is that we have to travel in August/September to take advantage of these prices, however, my wife is due with our second baby in May.

 

Would 3-4 months be enough time to register the birth of the newborn baby and get a passport or should we hold off on booking the flights?

 

I have checked the issue date of my daughters passport and it was issued 5 months after she was born but I remember there being problems with registering her birth due to her being born so close to Xmas and the registry office was closed. Also that was before we could apply for UK passports at the post office.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Richard

[Amy123]

Hi Richard,

I travelled in september to england with my baby who was born in may and we had his passport on time so as long as you start the process as soon as you get the birth certificate there shouldnt be a problem.

Amy

[Shaz36]

Hi,

I have travelled with a 3 month old before. I got the birth registered in the first fortnight, then applied for the passport. Took the application and documents to the post office for the check and send service, you pay a little more for it, but it guarantees a 2 week turnaround. Got it in 10 days, no problems.

 

Shaz

[lsbc1976]

we had a birth certificate and passport for our lo within two weeks, its quite quick as long as your avoiding holiday season

[Guest guest17520]

Thanks fr your replies, I think I was getting excited over nothing! I remembered that I'll need to take some time off when the baby is born which will mean I won't have any annual leave left to take a holiday this year! I'm a sucker for cheap prices hehehe

 

Thanks anyway, it's good to know this type of info.