{"id":45995,"date":"2025-08-05T19:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45995\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T19:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:04:13","slug":"annoying-passport-process-finally-ditched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45995\/","title":{"rendered":"Annoying passport process finally ditched"},"content":{"rendered":"

A major change to how Australians apply for a new passport is reportedly about to be introduced by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).<\/p>\n

While Australians can renew their passports online, the process to obtain a new passport requires Australians to either apply online then lodge an application in person at Australia Post, or complete a paper application and lodge it a post office.<\/p>\n

Soon Australians will be able to apply for a new passport online without having to go into a post office making it easier and quicker for people to apply for a passport digitally, DFAT said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\"Australians<\/p>\n

Australians will no longer have to go into an Australia Post office to lodge a new passport application and will be able to apply online.<\/p>\n

Licensed Post Office Group executive director Angela Cramp told 2GB the change had been years in the making and was expected to be introduced in the coming year.<\/p>\n

Ms Cramp said some Australians still relied on face-to-face contact and wanted to make sure their passport application was lodged at an Australia Post office so a person could check they had the correct documents.<\/p>\n

For some people, applying for a passport was a very stressful experience because they were worried about having the correct documents or not getting their application approved, she added.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost people do want to come and make sure that their passport is lodged at a passport at a post office, and we check all the documents for them,\u201d she told 2GB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major change to how Australians apply for a new passport is reportedly about to be introduced by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[39839,39837,9461,43,44,39836,39838,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-45995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-applying-for-a-passport","9":"tag-australia-post","10":"tag-australians","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-passport-application","14":"tag-post-office","15":"tag-top-news","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-topnews","18":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45995","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=45995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}