Passport Renewal

giraffe69

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photome

wen2202 wrote: »

You now pay for your renewal online at the .gov.uk site, you print out the declaration and then send the form off with your 2 photographs.

It worried me when i was asked to pay and i had to check and check again that i was on the right site.

Unfortunately it does seem that you ended up on a copy cat site, horrible people who should be outlawed.

Is that really the case, I thought they jst sent you the forms prefilled and then you sent them back with payment??

poppy_f1

photome wrote: »

Is that really the case, I thought they jst sent you the forms prefilled and then you sent them back with payment??

nope you cant pay online, you fill a form in and send it back with the renewal application

if it were the real site it would show up on your bank statement as HM PASSPORT OFFICE

just done a renewal this month

tomtontom

poppy_f1 wrote: »

nope you cant pay online, you fill a form in and send it back with the renewal application

if it were the real site it would show up on your bank statement as HM PASSPORT OFFICE

just done a renewal this month

You might want to check again - I have checked the official site today and you can now pay online.

rochja

At this stage it is a beta service - ie undergoing shakedown trials to see how buggy it is before it is launched to replace the old service. An official Government beta service - what could possibly go wrong?

photome

tomtontom wrote: »

You might want to check again - I have checked the official site today and you can now pay online.

It does indeed say you can

poppy_f1

tomtontom wrote: »

You might want to check again - I have checked the official site today and you can now pay online.

well its changed in the last month...

robatwork

If you're really lucky, someone called hpuse will be around soon to advise you.

samanthag

Hi, i have jut been reading through this thread because I need to renew my sons passport as he wants to go on holiday.
This will be his first adult passport him being 16 when he had his last one.
From what I can gather you need to pay online now which I presume is correct and I just wanted to ask what about countersigning the photo does this still need to be done as he has changed a lot from the 16 year old photo he was on his last passport.
Also I have always done the check and send with the post office and paid for the passport at the same time, so how will this work when you have already paid for the passport online how will the post office know you have paid ? will they try and charge you again?.
I have alsways just filled the forms in online and not paid but then paid in the post office when they were sent off, so it is all a bit confusing now.
Can anybody advise.
Thanks Sammy

Mojisola

samanthag wrote: »

From what I can gather you need to pay online now which I presume is correct and I just wanted to ask what about countersigning the photo does this still need to be done as he has changed a lot from the 16 year old photo he was on his last passport.
Also I have always done the check and send with the post office and paid for the passport at the same time, so how will this work when you have already paid for the passport online how will the post office know you have paid ? will they try and charge you again?.
I have alsways just filled the forms in online and not paid but then paid in the post office when they were sent off, so it is all a bit confusing now.

You don't have to pay online - there are various options for paying. If you want to use the PO, you still can - https://www.gov.uk/how-the-post-office-check-and-send-service-works

Yes, you will need someone to sign the new photos and fill in the appropriate section on the forms.