{"id":317736,"date":"2025-11-30T03:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T03:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/317736\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T03:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T03:04:10","slug":"australian-border-force-passport-system-outage-causes-delays-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/317736\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Border Force passport system outage causes delays nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">International travellers are facing major delays at Australian airports due to a nationwide passport system outage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A Melbourne Airport spokesperson told the ABC the Australian Border Force (ABF) advised it was experiencing a nationwide system issue affecting all inbound and outbound passengers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;[The] ABF is processing passengers manually,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;We are currently prioritising flights to manage passenger flows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;We appreciate passengers&#8217; patience as ABF works to resolve this issue.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A long line of passengers waiting at the Sydney international departures area\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/71bcc5657a1e4d05349811674ab94513\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">There is a long queue of passengers waiting to be processed through the Sydney departures area. (ABC News: Nick Dole)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Melbourne Airport media has now reported that the ABF advises the issue has been resolved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">However, Sydney Airport is still experiencing a long line of passengers in the departures area who are waiting to have their passports processed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Staff have told passengers the Border Force IT issue has been resolved, but a backlog still exists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">In November last year, a <a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2024-11-08\/huge-lines-at-international-airports-across-the-country\/104576526\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/104576526\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">similar technical outage<\/a> affected SmartGate kiosks across the country that lasted two hours.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"International travellers are facing major delays at Australian airports due to a nationwide passport system outage.\u00a0 A Melbourne&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[77000,64,63,179246,86235,44,179247,179245],"class_list":{"0":"post-317736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-airports","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australia-airport","12":"tag-australian-border-force","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-passport-nationwide-outage","15":"tag-passport-system-outage"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}