A new office in charge of identity papers opens in Isère

If you had to have your identity card redone recently, you must have been patient, so this is an opening that should interest you. A desk for renew your identity card or passport open to Saint-Jean-de-Bournay in Isere. If the official opening is scheduled for Monday, October 17, the service has been running for a month and the appointments were quickly taken by storm.

Much less road to get his papers

so far, it was necessary to make a good thirty kilometers round trip to get an appointment for his identity papers. Some were going “on La Côte-Saint-André, I think there was L’Isle-d’Abeau or Villefontaine, and then you have to go there twice” to register the request and then to recover his card or passport explains Régine Brozat, municipal councilor delegated in particular to the population.

With the rise in the price of fuel, these journeys cost so even for the test phase of this new service, the slots were quickly taken. “We had a lot of people, the schedule is almost complete!” continue the chosen one.

You have to book your appointment on the website of the town hall
. Behind the computer, Ghyslène Bouvatier manages the requests. “We took guinea pigs, we saw how it worked and then you have to practice” she smiled. Today, she is broken in. “It’s very, very, very much in demand. During the holidays we had a lot of calls. When do you open, that’s the ultimate question.”

Interested parties as far as Chambéry

Some are ready to come from afar: a resident of Chambéry has made an appointment in Saint-Jean-de-Bournay. Nothing prohibits it but the mayor of the town, Franck Pourrat, thinks above all of the inhabitants of the sector. “This service will also allow us to develop the activity of our city center” he says, giving an example. “People when they come to do their identity card, they will come to do the shopping in Saint-Jean-de-Bournay. The goal is to regain our attractiveness and not become a dormitory town.”

This service costs 15,000 to the town hall but it will be partly subsidized by the State and then for the mayor, “it is also the role of a municipal council to develop services because the population needs them, especially in a rural environment.”

If you want to make an appointment, you will still have to wait because all slots open for reservation until December 5 are already taken.

From this date, here are the hours at which the office will be open:

• Monday from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
• Tuesday from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
• Wednesday from 1:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
• Thursday from 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
• Friday 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.