 Poster: A snowHead
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Following a brief "moment of madness" chez Hopkinson. I've put myself to wondering what the contingency plan for replacing a passport misplaced on a Thursday evening for travel on the saturday of an Easter weekend is... any snowHeads have experience of this?
Don't worry folks - everyone has their passports here, and the cats have their vaccination cards.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Unless you have any connections at the embassy, maybe stay home, go to church with the family and celebrate the resurrection of our Lord. Relax....you can have a new one issued in a fortnight.
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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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Ian Hopkinson,
No idea, but I have scanned my passport into a PDF and left it on my e-mail server so that if I loose it when travelling I have evidence that I am who I say I am and can show I had a passport
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That should work and get you across the border.......not! It will probably get you arrested though for copying a federal document illegally.
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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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Jacques,
Just as well the UK is not a federal country. Its for use in an emergency if lost when travelling oversea's.
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BernardC, you reckon a photocard driving license will work? Would it got one out of the country though?
Jacques, I don't think dbiggins is claiming he will use it in place of his passport - rather as an emergency measure should his passport go astray whilst he is abroad.
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Ian Hopkinson, Go on! Leave your passport at home on Saturday and try it! Get an extra advance of adrenalin before skiing - but probably best to bring your own latex gloves... (Just in case!) 
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And hail to the EU for that. Now hand over all your Stirling and let me convert it to Euros for you. I suspect Ian will be traveling outside Europe if he needs his passport.
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Ian Hopkinson, ring up the Passport Service. They are very, very much improved since the meltdown a few years ago, and I think you can get one within hours if you turn up at one of the seven(?) centres. (London, Newport, Peterborough, Liverpool, Durham, Glasgow, Belfast from memory, but best check!)
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Try going to Afghanistan without a passport or maybe a better example would be America.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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laundryman, even on bank holidays?
Jacques, actually I am travelling in Europe... hold on - I'm flying to Geneva... 
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So what are you worried about? I think the drinking age is 16 in Switzerland...for a pint anyway.
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You know it makes sense.
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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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Ian Hopkinson, Steady, Steady don't be awkward!!! - is your destination airport the French or International Geneva?! - But your destination does beg the question of whether recriprocal European rights apply in the International Swiss side. Two years ago a Scottish (A very proud highlander) friend of mine actually got out of Geneva without even photo ID, having mislaid his Passport (Which eventually turned up in one of the many pockets on rucksack he was carrying!) He convinced the authorities in Geneva and Glasgow that he was Scottish - a rare feat in Geneva! The Glasweigans knew straight away he was one of theirs!
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Poster: A snowHead
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See Ian, finally someone comes through with some useful information afterall. What would you do without us?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Ian , Put the theory to the test. Shred your passport and see what happens with these options, after all, what have you got to lose?
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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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[quote]The Glasweigans knew straight away he was one of theirs!
Ach-aye!
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| laundryman wrote: |
| Ian Hopkinson, ring up the Passport Service. They are very, very much improved since the meltdown a few years ago, and I think you can get one within hours if you turn up at one of the seven(?) centres. (London, Newport, Peterborough, Liverpool, Durham, Glasgow, Belfast from memory, but best check!) |
Yes that works. I got a British passport for my daughter at Bristol or Cardiff, can't remember which now, in two hours' flat on the strength of a few forms filled in by me and a faxed letter of consent from her mum in France ... we were flying out the same afternoon.
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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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Well - there's another contingency handled  This means I don't need to lie awake worrying about it...I'll have to think of something else...
I've never been clear whether I was in the French or the Swiss side of Geneva airport, they always seemed to want to be paid in Swiss francs in the past so I assumed I was in the Swiss part.
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a friend got to the airport last Summer, only to discover her passport had expired. They phoned the Greek authorities, who agreed to let her travel, and she was welcomed home again without a problem. it doesn't work for USA though.
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It's gone very quiet on here all of a sudden, do I hear the scamper of (not so) tiny feet hurrying off to check their passports.
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Ian Hopkinson, If this is Contingency plan #104 Have you laminated the list of the other 103 plan's 
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We have managed to be refused boarding for a passport problem, renew it and catch a flight all on the same day ( in the space of 6 hours)! That has to be a record! 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I have an Anglo-indian friend whose passport ran out, he just borrowed another anglo-indian friends passport, as it had happened before and they had never had any problem doing it, because, they presumed, the immigration service thought that they all looked alike.
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Kramer, and....
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You know it makes sense.
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If your flying you may not be able to leave the country. On my last flight my passport was checked 20 yards from the checkin desk, at the checkin desk, at the over sized luggage desk, at passport control and finally at the departure gate. It was only checked once on entering Canada and twice on leaving Canada once at the checkin and once at passport control So 5 times to get on a plane leaving the country and twice to get back in.
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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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Have two. One for visiting Israel and one for everywhere else. Saves a lot of hassle. And you might not forget both of them at the same time
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Poster: A snowHead
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laundryman, Don't bet on it.... You will wait for hours to get seen and you will have to wait around all day to get one at Victoria, if at all
I have got back into the country having lost one abroad...that was pretty straight forward. The hardest thing was getting on board the ship on acount that they can't carry you without documents. Got back into the UK after a quick...and I mean quick, chat woth Immigration
So taking that you will get out ok...via the French at Dover...and you can get back in if the Immigration at Calais think you are legitimate
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Hywel,
Its standard practise for the ferry company to want to see your passport at check-in
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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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I drove to Bourg St Maurice last year using my 12 year old sons passport - I handed over for inspection several times without looking at it myself - Obviously the Ferry Company didn't look to carefully either
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boredsurfin, no, the contingency plans reside in my head and are constantly reviewed to prevent their dissappearance 
It certainly feels like my passport gets regular checking when I'm at the airport, I know when I've travelled Eurostar (some years ago now) things were much more relaxed.
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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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Passports.............good idea...............I'm off to check !
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Ian Hopkinson, Le Shuttle not relaxed now, we were held back last week because the queues were to long at passport control. Each passport visually checked and passed under a UV lamp.
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A few moons ago we took a trip over from Dover to Boulogne on the ferry, in the days when immigration was strictly administered and a passport of some kind was compulsory, even for France. There were three of us, heading for a party, all clad in gorilla suits, and nothing else. After rampaging through Boulogne for the day and attending the best party ever, come the morning we noticed one of our number was missing. Apparently one very unsteady primate had wandered out in the middle of the night and not been spotted since.
Asked at French customs, no sign. No gorillas had passed through that morning. Back in the UK, same answer from immigration.
He eventually turned up later that day. The previous night, legless, he had wandered out for a walk and got completely lost, forgetting where the party was. In a bar he had his wallet and passport nicked. Eventually passed out in a phone box.
Not speaking a word of French apart from 'La plume de ma tante est dans le jardin', he somehow got through French customs and onto a ferry with neither ticket, ID or money. Back on the UK side he talked his way through, although he had to put up with comments like 'that'll teach you to monkey around', and this isn't Aperil Fool's Day you know'...
So IH, on your contingency list, just make sure you include a note to pack your gorilla suit .
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PG, my limited French " in the garden" but dont know the rest.
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Paul Mason, my tailor is rich.
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Confused of Birtley 
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FAQ
is that you don't need a Passport to travel within Europe as it is currently defined. All our European Cousins will welcome you with open arms and take you to their bosoms upon production of qualifying Photo Identification 
