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Re: Passports

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Postby Watis » February 28th, 2018, 1:07 pm

tea42 wrote:You can renew your passport up to 9 months before it expires. Recieved our renewed passports by courier this morning. Our applications went in on the 20th February. Thus it took just 8 days!

I'm impressed!


Back in January, Mrs Watis and I renewed our passports. Mine was handled by the Peterborough office and was dealt with in a similar timescale to that which you experienced.

However, Mrs Watis's application went to the Northern Ireland office. Despite crossing the Irish Sea:

- the online renewal and photo was submitted on Sunday.
- her old passport was put in the post on Monday.
- her new passport was delivered on Thursday
- her old passport was delivered on Friday.

Yes, we were impressed!

Watis

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Re: Passports

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Postby neversay » March 6th, 2018, 5:20 pm

It's worth noting that passport prices are increasing from 27th March by £3 for online and £12.50 for postal application:

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/ ... t-the-jump

While I'm at it, I would like to recommend http://www.epassportphoto.com/ for your pictures. I took a photo of my daughter against an off-white wall using my mobile, upload it to epassportphoto for formatting (ignore their paid options and follow the 'or, you can use our FREE Do It Yourself service' link), then uploaded it to Tesco's 1 hour printing for 35p - for just the picture we liked.

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Re: Passports

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Postby swill453 » March 6th, 2018, 5:29 pm

neversay wrote:It's worth noting that passport prices are increasing from 27th March by £3 for online and £12.50 for postal application

Yes, very annoying that. A name change after marriage has to be done by postal application, not allowed to do it online.

Scott.

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Re: Passports

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Postby supremetwo » March 6th, 2018, 7:37 pm

neversay wrote:While I'm at it, I would like to recommend http://www.epassportphoto.com/ for your pictures. I took a photo of my daughter against an off-white wall using my mobile, upload it to epassportphoto for formatting (ignore their paid options and follow the 'or, you can use our FREE Do It Yourself service' link), then uploaded it to Tesco's 1 hour printing for 35p - for just the picture we liked.

This new official renewal web site does all the formatting for you - just upload your picture.
https://www.gov.uk/apply-renew-passport
https://www.passport.service.gov.uk/help/photo-rules
https://www.passport.service.gov.uk/photo/photo-guide

And a very efficient service is now provides with an emailed report at every stage.
Progress reports at every step plus tracking your application
https://www.passport.service.gov.uk/track

Other Government departments, please take note.

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Re: Passports

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Postby neversay » March 6th, 2018, 8:15 pm

This new official renewal website does all the formatting for you - just upload your picture.


You are right that the new website is great. Sadly you don't get the option to upload a photo on children's passports as they have to be countersigned.


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