For those of you who had success with an application re-submit during Paris Time hours, how far out were your trip arrival dates? Our trip is Nov 14 and I wasn't aware of the Paris Time trick. Wondering if I should re-submit or give it a few days to see what happens.

My trip was for November 20

Oh nice, okay! I'll give it a shot tonight.

My trip leaves the US on November 17th. I tried the trick of submitting at ~6am Paris time. The first one didn't work. I then submitted another one and that one succeeded. This was like my 8th attempt overall. Many thanks to all of you, in particular louisc who gave me renewed hope!

Safe travels to all!

Just providing a follow up, this worked like a charm! Created a new file (did not yet delete the original one that was still pending) and re-submitted at 7:00am Paris time. Got an email notification 13 minutes later that it is being "examined" and then another email notification 5 minutes afterward that it was accepted! I logged into the site to download the QR code PDF and deleted the original file that was still in pending. So strange that it works this way, but a huge thank you to my fellow FTers for this amazing tip!

A datapoint as well, I got the booster yesterday and selected "3/3" doses and put in that as the latest date of injection on the form. I was afraid it would muddy things up (even included notes to spell out the dates of each of the three doses) so I'm relieved it was processed automatically.

Another Datapoint here, similar to louisc and jamabam, Morning Submission worked like a charm :tu:

Originally created a file 2 days before and finally submitted at 6:25am CEST (this one was stuck "In-Progress")
Created a new file at 7:15am CEST, from Submitted > Received > Accepted, 3 Minutes 😲😲
Mon Dieu, C'est Possible 😁

It was faster to see the your file being refreshed in real time vs. getting the automatic reply emails 15 minutes later

"2/2" Doses, Travel Date was October 27.

Submitted Oct 13. Approved Oct 22. If your dates are far out just wait and let it happen naturally. No need to overload the system

Ended up booking the return flight, merged the confirmation with the departing flight using a pdf editor since the form doesn’t let you submit more than 1 file.
Took the advice of many in this thread by submitting in early morning weekday France time. Each time we didn’t get the Processing email within 20 mins, we just re-submitted. Took 3 tries for mine on the same day with the same email before finally getting approved. Then I deleted the other applications. Took 2 tries when I did it for my s/o the same day, all within around 8-10am range. This was on 10/19/21 and we entered France on 10/22/21 so that’s why we were in a bit of a rush as I started applying 10/16/21 and the 26 day estimate would have been too late anyway.
So far within Paris we went to a handful of bars, restaurants, and malls. It’s a hit or miss whether they actually ask for your code. The first day at 3 places each of them checked. The second day no one checked. Our hotel also never checked when we arrived. All in all we felt re-assured to have the QR code ready to go but as an advice to those who end up not getting the code in time, there seems to be plenty of options if it becomes a problem.

I'm curious if anyone has had Date of Birth issue with the FR pass. It lists my DOB correctly, but when I scan it in certain apps or verifiers, e.g. in Portugal, UK or Ireland, it shows the date incorrectly - ie the previous day. It seems to be a timezone issue, i.e. It saying I was born 12am on 12th, when in the UK that'd be 11th etc. The DOB shows correctly in the FR, OS, CH apps etc...

Also.. anyone here had a 3rd/booster shot, and if so, does that reflect on the DCC?

No issue with DOB but my First and Last names are reversed when I scan my QR code into the German app.

DE is the same timezone, so I wouldn't expect the issue; but PT, IE, UK etc seem to have an issue.

Here is a set of really weird data points for the application. And my trip isn't until early 2022.

I tried unsuccessfully at all sorts of early morning times, including 6:50, three different times between 7:00 and 8:00, 8:27, and 10:15 or so, all Paris time, but with no success. After a while, I stopped deleting the unsuccessful tries and left five sets of files in the "en construction" category. I made the tries on various dates between October 15 and October 26.

Then, today, the system somehow accepted the most recent set of tries from October 26 while ignoring all the older files! So the accepted files were only four days old, in other words neither new or aged. How does that make sense? Anyone who can figure out the rhyme or reason in all that is smarter than I am. Anyway, thank you to everyone on this thread for all the help and data points.

viva la france!:d

3rd vaccine shot on document
 

Submitted my application at 12:04am Eastern time and was approved in a few minutes. 3rd try. My document reflects 3/3 with date of last vaccination, exactly as what was input in to the application.

Will Train tickets Work?
 

We have a trip planned to three Euro countries (Ukraine, Austria, Netherlands) starting 18 November. I have been told that Germany now requires a German Passport or health insurance to create the QE code for US citizens with a CDC card. We have a 10 hour layover in FRA so I had planned on getting it taken care of there.

Plan B is to try with France. Because I don’t have plans to travel there, I figured if it would be accepted, I would buy a couple of cheap throwaway train tickets. Has anyone tried this, and so I need e/t or will the inbound be enough?