 Poster: A snowHead
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Renewed online on Monday and returned current passport by special delivery. New passport arrived this morning which is reasonably impressive!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| narbs wrote: |
| Renewed online on Monday and returned current passport by special delivery. New passport arrived this morning which is reasonably impressive! |
Same, did my son's, was done within a week
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Same x2. Very quick.
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Expecting my new passport tomorrow after applying online last week. Sent old one off Saturday. So less than a 2 week turnaround for me.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Child passport renewal was 9 days during
October/November - initial photo rejected after 3 (partially weekend) days and birth certificate required as proof of parental responsibility, new photo next day and passport issued 6 days later
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My daughter’s passport runs out in May 2024. Can she go back to the UK for Xmas? That would be 4 months before the expiry date?
Thanks.
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Just had two daughters' done-one a straight replacement (3 weeks), the other because it had been lost (4 weeks-needed a few more checks).
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Child passport renewal took a month in total from Portugal but including a delay during which they requested the original birth certificate (we had asked for a new middle name to be added). Given the old talk of 2-3 months, I’m very happy with that.
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Anyone entitled to an Irish passport should really consider getting one. Once over the hurdle of getting one a real benefit in avoiding or reducing potential queuing time at many EU airports.
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my wifes took 9 days back in July, at the height of the 'Oh s*** I forgot to renew before school hols season'.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@Poogle, hi I have just renewed mine and my sons, it took less than a week - we did it on-line.
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In terms of getting my new passport printed mine was also a very fast turnaround. Took < 2 weeks and that was a couple of months ago. The issues I had were with the application and the delivery
Application - I thought (mistakenly) that if I paid the extra to do the application through my local post office then there would be less that could go wrong. When the post office counter lady pressed send on my application it didn't process and they explained that the system was down, I'd have to come back later and start again. Having walked out of the PO I checked my emails on my phone and had a confirmation email from the passport office. Went back in to the PO and the manager spent 45 mins on the phone to resolve this because they didn't have the label for sending off my old passport (fair play to him for that). Also, if you are going down this route you need to make sure you check their checking before they press send. They got my address wrong which proved to be a real problem when it came to ...
Delivery - I winced when I saw who passport office courier was and sure enough it was tricky. Two failed deliveries, emails not responded to, eventually managed to get past their phone robot and speak to a human and get delivered on the 3rd attempt by intercepting the delivery driver who fortunately didn't ask for photo ID (because it was in the envelope he was trying to deliver). I never did get my old passport back (this is supposed to be sent separately).
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Mrs MA and I are within half an hour of a passport office, so both (months apart in the last 12 months) went for the One Week Fast Track service. I can highly recommend the service if you are in a similar position.
With this service you:
- Make an appointment at the Passport Office. Both times, there were appointments available within a few days.
- Fill in a renewal form from the Post Office.
- Attend your appointment and spend a few minutes with an officer who checks your application form, photos etc.
- Receive the new passport within a week of your appointment. Both of ours arrived within 2 - 3 days 
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You know it makes sense.
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@mountainaddict, I can walk there if I want to, but work commitments meant finding suitable appointment times wasn't easy so we opted to do it online. The worst part was the posting off the old passports as it was ages before they were received and processed. Once received it was only a few days (see previous page) to receipt, and it was Christmas post.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| Alpinebear wrote: |
My daughter’s passport runs out in May 2024. Can she go back to the UK for Xmas? That would be 4 months before the expiry date?
Thanks. |
Risky. We once got denied boarding a flight from Heathrow to Kuala Lumpur because daughter only had 4 months left on her's. So we went to Thailand instead where they are more lenient.
Quite a stressful experience to be honest. We had about 20 minutes to decide whether to cancel the holiday entirely or change it completely for another destination. Only once they allowed us to enter Bangkok did the stress start to diminish.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| We once got denied boarding a flight from Heathrow to Kuala Lumpur because daughter only had 4 months left on her's. |
So infuriating, to put it mildly. Why aren't passports just valid to the relevant date if you only want to do a few days away? Or indeed any travel at all within the validity period if you have a return ticket booked... 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Alpinebear, travelling from where and on what passport? I'd have thought 4-months would be fine, we went to France in summer with just over 3-months left on passport. Rules for France are more than 3-months at intended return and passport less than 10-years old.
Aware sometimes airlines in particular have specified 6-months
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| mountainaddict wrote: |
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| We once got denied boarding a flight from Heathrow to Kuala Lumpur because daughter only had 4 months left on her's. |
So infuriating, to put it mildly. Why aren't passports just valid to the relevant date if you only want to do a few days away? Or indeed any travel at all within the validity period if you have a return ticket booked... |
To make matters worse, they couldn't change our return flight which should have also been from Kuala Lumpur back home, because there were no seats on the plane out of Bangkok. So the day before the end of the 3 week holiday, we tried to get into Malaysia (from Krabi in Thailand) to make our original flight home from KL, but again they wouldn't let her in.
So I ended up going to KL by myself for 1 night, whilst the Mrs and daughter went back to Bangkok and had to book new flights home. Again, we had about 20 minutes to decide at Krabi airport what we were going to do.
Just madness. They could see we only needed to be in Malaysia for one night because we showed them our ticket out of KL for the following day, but they were having none of it.
I think a lot of it just depends on which country you're trying to get into. Malaysia is obviously incredibly strict.
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Absolutely awful that @mikeycharlton 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@Poogle, mine and my sons took less than a week, from start to finish. I did it on-line.
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Just renewed mine on line.
8 days from application to receiving new passport.
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All of ours (4 passports) were stolen in Antibes this summer.
I renewed two via fast-track including a visit to the Passport Office in London (Docklands), in order to be sure my son could make his school trip to Morocco and I could be on emergency call. The other two I did one (my wifes) online, and one with a paper application form (you can’t use online for a child).
Both the online one and the paper one were delivered to us before the two “fast-track” applications…
Crazy.
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Did a renewal online week before last, received new PP via DHL on 10th day after application.
I did it one evening and didn't send the expired one until the next afternoon though.
If you did it in the morning and got the old one in the post straight away, it would probably be quicker.
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I have just received my new passport. I did a renewal online mid-afternoon on Tuesday and sent old passport next day delivery and new one came before 10 this morning.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@gsb, was it yours? 
The Home Office have been mixing people up recently.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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