£72.50 for a passport renewal - wow!

dzug1

Doshwaster wrote: »

The one change I would like to see is the lowering of the age where you can get a free passport as at the moment it is 85. My parents are 80 and in fading health so they are reluctant to spend £150 between them on new 10 year passports.

The free passport was intended to 'reward' those who had been affected by World War 2 - it wasn't directly related to age as such


A bit of a gimmick really - |I can't see it being changed. though

lovesgshp

Wish mine only cost £72.50. Had a UK passport for about 50 years, but because I now live in Italy, it costs £128.00, plus £19.86 for courier fees to renew. We have just renewed 2 in the last few years.
They have just changed from Paris renewal centre to the UK, but price has not gone down.

theGrinch

My GP always asks for cash for sick notes or signing. I wonder if he declares it

LondonDreamer

The price actually went down in 2012. It used to be £77.50 which is what my DH's last renewal cost.

I have two passports (dual citizen) and renewal costs between them are over £200. Still a bargain for a document I choose to keep renewed. Skipping one meal out per year more than covers the cost.

Valli

andygb wrote: »

When did renewing a passport become so expensive? Mine is out of date in another month, and I couldn't believe the price.:eek:

Make sure you use the .gov.uk site if renewing online;)

https://www.gov.uk/renew-adult-passport

InsideInsurance

lovesgshp wrote: »

Wish mine only cost £72.50. Had a UK passport for about 50 years, but because I now live in Italy, it costs £128.00, plus £19.86 for courier fees to renew. We have just renewed 2 in the last few years.
They have just changed from Paris renewal centre to the UK, but price has not gone down.

Again, a choice to live in Italy.

Why not apply for italian nationality given its now your home and get an italian passport instead?

agrinnall

I've just done a search of my accounts and discovered that I paid £18 for a passport in 1997, but that had gone up to £66 in 2007. According to this inflation calculator the 1997 price would equate to £27.76 today, so there must be a lot of money going somewhere now that it wasn't then.

Voyager2002

agrinnall wrote: »

I've just done a search of my accounts and discovered that I paid £18 for a passport in 1997, but that had gone up to £66 in 2007. According to this inflation calculator the 1997 price would equate to £27.76 today, so there must be a lot of money going somewhere now that it wasn't then.

As explained above, a decision was made to fund consular services through a levy on passport fees rather than from general taxation.

balletshoes

agrinnall wrote: »

I've just done a search of my accounts and discovered that I paid £18 for a passport in 1997, but that had gone up to £66 in 2007. According to this inflation calculator the 1997 price would equate to £27.76 today, so there must be a lot of money going somewhere now that it wasn't then.

i found a similar article in one of the newspapers from a few years ago -

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/3392283/Passport-fees-to-jump-by-a-third-to-more-than-100-to-pay-for-fingerprinting.html?oo=0

Wammer

balletshoes wrote: »

theres an article about that today in one of the newspapers -

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/3392283/Passport-fees-to-jump-by-a-third-to-more-than-100-to-pay-for-fingerprinting.html?oo=0

looks like i should renew my passport sooner rather than later this year, as it may go up even more?

Today? Note the date the article was written.

By Christopher Hope, Home Affairs Editor
6:33PM GMT 06 Nov 2008