[Closed] Passports

supply and demand

There are fewer checks for renewals. However remember you're not paying for a specific product - your fees are funding the organisation as a whole.

Stop moaning.

Yeah!

I blame you.

i baulked at the cost .... then remembered i was expensing it 😀

stuff having to do the whole family - no wonder we never went on holiday when i was younger !

I want to know which turnip thought taking photos of your baby for his passport was a good idea?

Better than not having a photo surely?

hardly. do you not notice how much your childs face changes every 3 months or so until theyre about 4/5?

photo reference (even if you could get a perfect one) is pretty useless. Just adds massively to the cost. Should be able to add up to a5yrs old to both parent's passport for £10 rubber stamp based on birth cert. A new one costs £50 and has to be done again at 5yrs for another £50.

So why d'you think they decided to have them? Cos they were bored one day?

Btw they are a bit better trained than the casual 'oh that looks like you' glance that you or I might give.

Lil Grips is still recognisable from her picture if you look carefully, bout 20 months later.

its a fund raiser.

I dont think there's a lil' Miss Terrist training camp yet....

its a fund raiser.

Don't be daft. If they wanted to raise funds they'd just stick the prices of normal ones up. That's what they usually do. There's no competition after all.

bet they never thought of that grips?

2009: £77.50
2007: £72
2006: £66
2005: £51
2003: £42
2002: £33

There's the Queen promising to look after you while you are travelling and make all foreigners quake in their boots if they dare hinder you. Cheap at half the price I say....

only if she comes tooled-up

They have to do a fair bit more work nowadays.

It's all those drunken Brits abroad requiring consular services when they fall foul of the local police officers.

It's all those drunken Brits abroad requiring consular services when they fall foul of the local police officers

Overseas passport issue is fantastically expensive now and is being privatised and regionalised, so often your passport has to be sent away out of the country you're living in (and which may require you to carry a passport...). 😐

I'm glad my company pays for my passports, since I've had 2 new ones in the past 6 months 😯

Cheers, Rich

turboferret - Member
I'm glad my company pays for my passports, since I've had 2 new ones in the past 6 months

Cheers,[s] Rich[/s] Bond, James Bond 007

Sorted it for ya!

Or are you an international drug runner?

£7.75 a yr for a passport is a bargain IMHO

Better off doing renewals on line. Gets rid of the need for check and send, which as I can vouch for is not a guaranteed service!

Better off doing renewals on line

But don't they then send the form for you to sign that you have to then post back?
That just seems to have added a step to the process, I've just done the whole families again, simple matter of popping the forms in the post and the passports arrived 10 days later

I don't see any need for check and send for most people

Yup they send you the form but all printed out, then all thats required for the most inept person is to sign inside the box!