Covid Passport

[Ringlet]

Here in Northern Ireland, to register for a covid passport we have to upload a photo of our driving licence or passport.
Does anyone know is it possible to get a covid passport if you don't have either a current driving licence or a current passport? I don't have either.
I can't get an answer from any website to give me this information.
Sick to death and in tears spending hours trying to get this thing sorted out.
Please, if anyone knows any information, would they tell me?
I couldn't get into the local craft fair today with my daughter because they were serving alcohol on the premises and I didn't have the app.
Thank you so much.

[Togo]

You can apply for a covid passport letter to be posted to you using the online service or you can go to your GP and ask for the same letter I believe. It is so in Wales and should be likewise in N.I.

[Togo]

I think this may help.

https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/services/apply-domestic-covid-vaccination-certificate

[Ringlet]

Many many thanks, Togo.
I was in despair about it all.

I'll give this a go. Cheers to you.

[Togo]

Hope it works for you Ringlet. I organised ours and it was a real faff. How some will cope with an acceptable driving licence image or passport image heaven knows. The system is very very particular about what it will "recognise" as clear and unadulterated and the face scan and video clarification is a bind after confirming email and mobile phone numbers. The waiting time has gone from 24 hrs in my case, to 14 days for "she who must be obeyed" in the space of 5 days. Anyone wearing dark clothes on a driving licence image is going to struggle as the site wants to clearly read the date printed across the bottom of image. The date is printed in black. I had to fettle the brightness and clarity in my image editing doodaahh.

[emmie]

is it really this much of a faff, i was considering getting a covid passport, i am in England, and wondered how easy or hard it is? I have had the 3 vaccines so am reasonably protected and did an LFT which was negative on saturday..

[bednobs]

it's much easier in england (and if you have mobile phone)
You dont have to (yet) prove your identit in the same way you do in NI

[Togo]

To do the online application for smart phone use or to be able to print your own copy you need either a driving licence or passport. You need to be able to upload an image of one of them which means you need to take a photo and put it in File Explorer(say) from your phone or camera. Emailing it to yourself then filing it in images there is the work around method for most. You will need to register with the NHS in you respective Country(which all have a seperate website ... madness) and follow the lead through. You need a pc, laptop, or smartphone with camera and you need to be recieving both email( on any device) and text messages on you mobile to access the photo upload for driving licence or passport. When you have done this you are contacted to log back in and then post a recorded image of yourself(they provide the facility) and to either speak the number shown in your image or to write it down and show it to the camera at the same time as your own image. There is also now a face scan before the image download that you have to do. That is weird. Like a psychodelic Andy Warhol picture of you.

[Etch]

For England the NHS COVID Pass letter page seems to have been updated:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/covid-pass/get-your-covid-pass-letter/
It now says "You'll be sent the letters you're eligible for. You may be sent a travel letter, a domestic letter or both. The letters are valid for 30 days." Previously the letter (one and only) did not have an expiry date. However the process for applying online seems to be as simple as it ever was: provide your NHS number, date of birth and the postcode you have registered with your GP. That's it - no need to scan/photograph or upload anything, and has worked for me twice. Alternatively ring 119 and it should be just as straight forward.

[bednobs]

That page says nothing about NI, where the process seems different (and the need for "domestic covid passport" much more stringent)
For example in NI you have to show it , from today, for places that serve food and drink

[Etch]

"That page says nothing about NI, where the process seems different." That's true, I was addressing emmie's question "is it really this much of a faff", which is why I specifically said "For England...".

[Togo]

It looks like any covid pass that you have will be cancelled unless you have had a booster. In England only I think up to now.

[Ringlet]

Thanks everyone, for your answers.
I'm so fed up with trying to get this sorted that I'll probably end up not going any place where I'm likely to be asked for a covid passport.
I have my three vaccinations but the system in Northern Ireland is just too complicated and user-hostile for old timers like me.

[emmie]

i was going to ring 119 and request a letter but on reflection its unlikely to get here before Christmas, where i will be away...