Passport Costs To Increase In October - Renew NOW !

superfurry

Insert by Martin

Passport prices are going up on 5 October. An adult 10 year passport will increase to £66 and a child passport from £34 to £45.

You can renew your passport at any time, but they can only add 9 months validity from your old passport to your new one, so its reasonable cut off logic to say - this is only really worth doing now, to save the money, if you've roughly less than a year to go.

For details on applying visit the Passport Website




If you need to renew your passport within the next 9 months, you should do it before the end of September, as the cost jumps from £51 to £66. Also, for new applications. You can renew up to 9 months in advance, and you will be credited with any whole months remaining on your old passport.

I can't believe it costs the same amount to renew a passport and to apply 1st time !

Smiley_Mum

Didn't they just recently have a price increase on passports?

Here is a link about the costs etc...

http://www.passport.gov.uk/news/news.asp?strAreaNo=320&intelement=1127

To renew my kids passports it's going to go up from £34 a head to £45. They don't expire until Dec 07 but if I renew now I'll save £22. Mine doesn't expire until beginning of 08 but wondering whether I should renew now and save £37 and lose over a year on my own passport and 8 months each on my kids. So, £119 versus £156. Ouch.

clarew

Thanks for this info- my husband and oldest childs is up in feb 07, good to be able to get it before at old rate. However, be careful when reading the above link, it states that some countries may soon require the new funky type passport to enter usa without a visa. Presumably they would have to make some allowances for x number of years for all us people with the old ones?

Dazzieboo

I had to go to Peterborough to get my childrens passports as they had to come off my ex-husband passport and have their own, it was "too complicated" to guarantee to get them back within 3 weeks, hence the trip up there. While I was there, I was told that from October 2006 all new adult applications would involve an interview which would have to be done at a local passport office and that new ones would be opening to accomodate the demand. Apprently this is so the imprint (I think that is the term) could be taken from the eye and put into the Passport.

I have a letter explaining all of this, but haven't seen anything on the website. Maybe it has been delayed.

jammybunn

Dazzieboo wrote:

I had to go to Peterborough to get my childrens passports as they had to come off my ex-husband passport and have their own, it was "too complicated" to guarantee to get them back within 3 weeks, hence the trip up there. While I was there, I was told that from October 2006 all new adult applications would involve an interview which would have to be done at a local passport office and that new ones would be opening to accomodate the demand. Apprently this is so the imprint (I think that is the term) could be taken from the eye and put into the Passport.

I have a letter explaining all of this, but haven't seen anything on the website. Maybe it has been delayed.

It has been delayed till 2nd quarter of next year ( i know coz im waiting to start my promotion there!) all first time adult appications will require an interview to be arranged at one of the 72 offices that will be open nationwide

Miss_Cinnabon

I have to renew as i recently got married and was shocked to find i have to pay 51 pounds just for a name change:mad: have to get lo his first passport too, will def send off before oct though, going to florida next year.

Rachie_B

kyle wrote:

I have to renew as i recently got married and was shocked to find i have to pay 51 pounds just for a name change:mad: have to get lo his first passport too, will def send off before oct though, going to florida next year.

ditto :mad:

even though we have been married 2 yrs on sunday :rotfl:

alanrowell

kyle wrote:

I have to renew as i recently got married and was shocked to find i have to pay 51 pounds just for a name change:mad: have to get lo his first passport too, will def send off before oct though, going to florida next year.

If you do that you'll have to get a visa to go to Florida which will involve filling in a form, sending it to the US embassy with a large amount of money & attending an interview in London - all of which will take several weeks

I'd wait a few months after October to ensure that you get a "biometric" passport or keep your current passport

Miss_Cinnabon

How does that work? i was told as long as i have a machine readable passport before oct then i still qualify for the visa waiver scheme it is only after oct if you renew and don't have a biometric then you would need a visa.

Doubtful the passport office will handle the demand of biometrics and not everyone would get one after that date! this is what i have been told.

Correct me if i am wrong.

flang

Take no notice about US Visas and the october deadline.
Most passports should be machine readable, this just means that it has a list of numbers at the bottom of ur passport like(//ddf^^^ddkjd) that is swiped through a laptop before check-in.
All visas etc are filled in while your in the air!
You DO NOT have to attend an interview to fly to Florida.

ollywood68

Can someone clarify something for me. If my passport runs out end of May, if I renew it in September, I will get a new passport running for 10 years? But if I renew it in August, they will not give me a new 10 year passport but only a 10 month one?