jake
30th June 2015, 13:52
This may be of interest to anyone living in the Philippines or abroad, who has a British passport.
My passport and the kids were due for renewal next year and, as we plan to travel abroad around New Year time, I decided to apply early due to the delays I had read about online. The website states your application will take at least 8 weeks, so I wasn’t expecting them to be returned before the time stated.
The online application was fairly straightforward and the total cost including the fee for returning the passport and any other documents was £102.86 per passport. When I was about to print the reference number of the last application the laptop and printer decided to throw a wobbly, so I ended up writing down the number. When I tried to log in later I realized the references was case sensitive :doh Anyway, as it was Sunday night I had to wait till late Monday afternoon to phone the hotline. Spoke to lovely Irish women who sorted it all out and emailed me the details. Thank you!
Ended up sending the applications on June 11. You have to pay the postage costs, which was 3,400 in our case. Up to 6 passports with individual applications can be sent at the same time, which is handy if your passports are ready for renewal around the same time.
Today June 30th I got a bit of a shock when Mr DHL appeared at the door with our new passports. In the end it took 19 days. The remaining time on the old passport up to 9 months was added to the new, so all in all I am chuffed with the service we received from Her Majesty’s passport office :xxgrinning--00xx3:
My passport and the kids were due for renewal next year and, as we plan to travel abroad around New Year time, I decided to apply early due to the delays I had read about online. The website states your application will take at least 8 weeks, so I wasn’t expecting them to be returned before the time stated.
The online application was fairly straightforward and the total cost including the fee for returning the passport and any other documents was £102.86 per passport. When I was about to print the reference number of the last application the laptop and printer decided to throw a wobbly, so I ended up writing down the number. When I tried to log in later I realized the references was case sensitive :doh Anyway, as it was Sunday night I had to wait till late Monday afternoon to phone the hotline. Spoke to lovely Irish women who sorted it all out and emailed me the details. Thank you!
Ended up sending the applications on June 11. You have to pay the postage costs, which was 3,400 in our case. Up to 6 passports with individual applications can be sent at the same time, which is handy if your passports are ready for renewal around the same time.
Today June 30th I got a bit of a shock when Mr DHL appeared at the door with our new passports. In the end it took 19 days. The remaining time on the old passport up to 9 months was added to the new, so all in all I am chuffed with the service we received from Her Majesty’s passport office :xxgrinning--00xx3: