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SMARTY29A_2

okay so i will be okay to leave my daughters passport re-newal until nearer the time as i understand this new "hassle" is only for brand new 1st time passports

CFC

SMARTY29A wrote:

okay so i will be okay to leave my daughters passport re-newal until nearer the time as i understand this new "hassle" is only for brand new 1st time passports

March 08 - it's up to you, it could be rolled out to renewals by then. The hassle is only temporarily for new 1st time passports, it WILL be rolled out to renewals for everyone, the only question is whether it will be 08 or 09. I wouldn't leave it till March 08 personally. I think you'd probably be OK up till November - and then that's a nice quick turnaround time to renew.

movieman

There's going to be such an outcry about this with people missing holidays due to the whole stupid monstrosity that I have a real hard time imagining Labour imposing it on renewals too before the next election: they're hated enough already, they really don't want to give a large fraction of the British population even more reason to hate them.

Still, I'm glad I'm emigrating: I'll renew my passport ASAP once I'm gone, and I'll never need to do so again after I get foreign citizenship.

phill79

CFC wrote:

then you may be called for a compulsory "interview" at one of them.

Do you mean "Will be called"?