Latest posts for the topic "Passport renewal"

Passport renewal

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:29:00 GMT

I have just renewed my passport and it took exactly one week which I thought was really good service. Mine was just a standard renewal for a soon to expire passport and my husband took the photos and printed them. I used first class post. My son has just had to replace his passport as he left it in a pocket and put it in the washing machine! Form for replacement passport involved more information and a countersignatory to confirm his identity so he used the Post Office checking service - the assistants behind the counter had to hold a mini-conference as they didn't seem to know what they had to do. His new passport took just over a week to arrive.
Anyway, just thought I would post this in case anyone else needs to renew or replace their passport. Cost is a staggering GBP72 now.

Re:Passport renewal

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:14:45 GMT

A friend of mine works for a company bidding for the work involved in giving the passports a radical change, they are to become biometric, (probably next year) and will then cost a stagering GBP150+ to renew.

If anyone needs to renew a passport, do it this year. Saying that it will probably cost twice that come the time you have to change it anyway.

Re:Passport renewal

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:50:50 GMT

Annoyingly my at the time girlfriend had to replace her passport in January as it had expired. Two weeks ago we got married so she has to change it again! Another 72 quid!

Re:Passport renewal

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:58:08 GMT

thats a bit expensive, i thought the government were trying to bring in ID cards to replace driving licence's and passport's sort of everything rolled into one or is that not going ahead?

Re:Passport renewal

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:24:35 GMT

Mrs H works at the passport office, which came in handy when our son put his through the washing machine 2 days before going abroad )

Re:Passport renewal

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:33:51 GMT

This reminds me of a few years ago when the day before we were due to go skiing my sister could not find her passport. (Bearing in mind she is the most anal person I know and usually soooooooooo organised) I flew out on my own and she followed 2 days later when she had her new passport. It oost her a fortune as she had to pay for and "on the day" passport. Buy a new flight to Geneva and then she took a taxi all the way to Courcheval..................what some folks will do not to miss their holiday!!!
So the moral of this story............make sure you know where your passport is many weeks before you travel and know that it's not about to go out of date :D

Re:Passport renewal

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:35:48 GMT

I dont know how people can lose something as important as a passport, or let it run out of date, but you'd be amazed how many do.

Re:Passport renewal

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:36:06 GMT

Tony_H wrote:Mrs H works at the passport office, which came in handy when our son put his through the washing machine 2 days before going abroad )

A handy contact MMMmm 8)

Re:Passport renewal

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:44:31 GMT

Eljay wrote:This reminds me of a few years ago when the day before we were due to go skiing my sister could not find her passport. (Bearing in mind she is the most anal person I know and usually soooooooooo organised) I flew out on my own and she followed 2 days later when she had her new passport. It oost her a fortune as she had to pay for and "on the day" passport. Buy a new flight to Geneva and then she took a taxi all the way to Courcheval..................what some folks will do not to miss their holiday!!!
So the moral of this story............make sure you know where your passport is many weeks before you travel and know that it's not about to go out of date :D

mine is always re packed with insurance certificate etc in hand kluggage ready for new trip, scarey this time because i havent got the tickets, hopefully snowb4ndit won't forget mine

Re:Passport renewal

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:48:30 GMT

amanda n wrote:

Eljay wrote:This reminds me of a few years ago when the day before we were due to go skiing my sister could not find her passport. (Bearing in mind she is the most anal person I know and usually soooooooooo organised) I flew out on my own and she followed 2 days later when she had her new passport. It oost her a fortune as she had to pay for and "on the day" passport. Buy a new flight to Geneva and then she took a taxi all the way to Courcheval..................what some folks will do not to miss their holiday!!!
So the moral of this story............make sure you know where your passport is many weeks before you travel and know that it's not about to go out of date :D

mine is always re packed with insurance certificate etc in hand kluggage ready for new trip, scarey this time because i havent got the tickets, hopefully snowb4ndit won't forget mine

Don't worry yourself amanada they are in the bag already together with passports, photos, insurance, EHIC... etc etc

Re:Passport renewal

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:51:22 GMT

phew lol, only thing i am missing is my map of where to go, will ring them again tomorrow, know its M1 junc 5 but thats it, full panic mode trying to figure out how long will 22 junctions take on a friday morning and is it really too early to leave at 5am?? hum

Re:Passport renewal

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:53:23 GMT

amanda n wrote:phew lol, only thing i am missing is my map of where to go, will ring them again tomorrow, know its M1 junc 5 but thats it, full panic mode trying to figure out how long will 22 junctions take on a friday morning and is it really too early to leave at 5am?? hum

What time were you told that the bus leaves Watford?

Re:Passport renewal

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:55:17 GMT

about 2.30 ish but i will be there for 12 ish i like to be early, i was joking, i am having hair done at 9am then setting off, would rather hang around for a couple of hours than miss it completely

Re:Passport renewal

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:56:24 GMT

does anyone know what the ferry port is called at Calais, i am looking up directions to austria, i can feel a road trip coming on :mrgreen:

Re:Passport renewal

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:16:37 GMT

Strangely enough, its called the Port of Calais

Re:Passport renewal

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:28:35 GMT

Tony - could your son possibly know my son since they have both managed to wash their passports? Our daughter couldn't find her passport last year and it turned up in her garden shed - Don't ask!!

Re:Passport renewal

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:59:57 GMT

amanda n wrote:about 2.30 ish but i will be there for 12 ish i like to be early, i was joking, i am having hair done at 9am then setting off, would rather hang around for a couple of hours than miss it completely

I had my hair cut yesterday and I hate it! I am soooooooooooo upset, I will be wearing a bobble hat next week 24-7! :cry:

This is snowb4ndit by the way (on hubby's pc)

Re:Passport renewal

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:05:02 GMT

i bet it is lovely snow, don't tell anyone but i had mine done yesterday as well, the grey roots lol. asked her for a bit more red in lol oh my lord looks like we both wearing bobble hats 24/.7

Re:Passport renewal

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:07:36 GMT

amanda n wrote:i bet it is lovely snow, don't tell anyone but i had mine done yesterday as well, the grey roots lol. asked her for a bit more red in lol oh my lord looks like we both wearing bobble hats 24/.7

I won't tell anyone, your secret is safe with me :roll: :mrgreen:

Re:Passport renewal

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:09:35 GMT

scapula wrote:

amanda n wrote:i bet it is lovely snow, don't tell anyone but i had mine done yesterday as well, the grey roots lol. asked her for a bit more red in lol oh my lord looks like we both wearing bobble hats 24/.7

I won't tell anyone, your secret is safe with me :roll: :mrgreen:

It's safe with me too! :lol:

Re:Passport renewal

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:11:40 GMT

hey with the new haircuts we will have to have our passports renewed, i look like a convict on mine hideous.

Re:Passport renewal

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:18:34 GMT

amanda n wrote:hey with the new haircuts we will have to have our passports renewed, i look like a convict on mine hideous.

My last passport photo was ok, I sat slightly sideways and did it black and white (to hide wrinkles).

Now they are much more stringent and my current passport photo is hideous! :roll:

Re:Passport renewal

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:35:21 GMT

Can't be, i'll show you mine if you show me your's on the bus hee hee :mrgreen: oooo i am all excited having trouble sleeping now just want friday morning to be here. got all euro's just have to re pack once more just to make sure, bought some new p.j's lol

Re:Passport renewal

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:51:11 GMT

As a good Catholic girl, I recommend a prayer to St Anthony when you lose your passport or anything important. you'll probably start your sentence something like this when you realise you can't find the bloody thing: ''Oh my GOD...'' or something more colourful.
amanda, where are you going on Friday? i've missed that part of the thread. you're NOT taking the train to Niederau to see Gill, are you?!!!!!!!!!!! L.

Re:Passport renewal

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:29:03 GMT

jastem wrote:Tony - could your son possibly know my son since they have both managed to wash their passports? Our daughter couldn't find her passport last year and it turned up in her garden shed - Don't ask!!

I blame Mrs H not my son as she does the washing!!!!

The story about the shed sounds interesting....let me guess - took her passport out as ID, got in too late and slept in the shed and left her passport in the shed?

A lad who used to play football for me did that once, but he got cold so he turned on a blow torch which was fine until the roof caught fire!!!

Re:Passport renewal

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:39:17 GMT

note to self: check pockets before doing the washing :?

Re:Passport renewal

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:41:45 GMT

I get warnings every day 'empty your pockets before you bring the washing down'. I have had numerous wallets/phones/amounts of money washed, I just never learn :lol:

Now where's my passport...

Re:Passport renewal

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:04:04 GMT

Well, a late night and alcohol did have some bearing on it but not how you described. Our son had been finished with very suddenly by his girlfriend of several years so we packed him off to our daughter to have a sisterly talking to followed by a marathon session in the local hostelries with our son-in-law. The following morning they discovered that their house move was to take place that day instead of the day after - chaos! Our son and son-in-law were not very much help and simply threw things in boxes. So, many weeks later they were due to come skiing with us, I did the usual mum thing of making sure everyone had their passports, health cards, etc. After turning their new house upside down, they eventually looked in the shed! At least it did turn up and no roofs were damaged in the process. I did warn you not to ask!!!

Re:Passport renewal

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:27:57 GMT

jastem wrote:Well, a late night and alcohol did have some bearing on it but not how you described. Our son had been finished with very suddenly by his girlfriend of several years so we packed him off to our daughter to have a sisterly talking to followed by a marathon session in the local hostelries with our son-in-law. The following morning they discovered that their house move was to take place that day instead of the day after - chaos! Our son and son-in-law were not very much help and simply threw things in boxes. So, many weeks later they were due to come skiing with us, I did the usual mum thing of making sure everyone had their passports, health cards, etc. After turning their new house upside down, they eventually looked in the shed! At least it did turn up and no roofs were damaged in the process. I did warn you not to ask!!!

Brilliant.