Daughter Passport Renewal after 5 years

ozzymiller

Can anyone help?
We are about to change my daughters passport as she has had it 5 years and that is what they ask you to do. Now my wife said well that's another xxx pound which I thought was out of order as we are paying twice. Now having checked the web and passport section it is not clear if i have to pay again or not.
She was issued the passport over 5 years ago and there is something about extension being free but it does not make clear.
HELP!!!!!!!!!!! Do we have to pay again or not. If we do it makes a child passport more expensive than an adult one.

Thanks

mancitychick

Yes you do have to pay.

peachyprice

Yes, you do.

maemaesmummy

Yep £49 we have just renewed ds's

laurel7172

The extension is granted where you renew a passport that hasn't expired yet.

So I've just renewed DS's passport, which was due to expire in August this year (to comply with visa requirements for a school trip). For my £49 fee I've been given a passport which expires in August 2016-a free extension of the six months his old passport had to run.

daveyjp

Any passport renewed before it runs out will have the extra months added - IIRC the maximum is 9 months.

DavidHayton

ozzymiller wrote: »

Do we have to pay again or not. If we do it makes a child passport more expensive than an adult one.

Yes this is true. :mad:

David

spiro

2 times the cost of 5 year childrens passport (£49*2=£98) is more expensive than 1 10 year adult one (£77.50) but there is two lots of admin involved, 2 passports, 2 lots of postage etc.

Mands

spiro wrote: »

more expensive than 1 10 year adult one (£77.50)

In an effort to make you feel better ...

We're outside the UK and in the process of renewing an adult passport. The cost is 160€ for the passport plus two lots of courier costs at 25€ each, so 210€ or about £175 all told.

Obviously it's our choice to be here but it's still an ouch in terms of the costs.

Mands

jammin_2

Mands wrote: »

In an effort to make you feel better ...

We're outside the UK and in the process of renewing an adult passport. The cost is 160€ for the passport plus two lots of courier costs at 25€ each, so 210€ or about £175 all told.

Obviously it's our choice to be here but it's still an ouch in terms of the costs.

Mands

Would you not just get a friend in the UK to apply for it locally?

balletshoes

maybe its not a UK passport they're applying for? Even to extend (ie add pages to) his existing non-UK passport, my OH has to pay more than £50. I think when he got his originally 10 years ago, it cost more than £100.