Can I still use my current passport whilst applying for a new one, if it is still valid?

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Annemos said:

Watch out for this with your timing, bex. If you use Courier. 

My new passport was printed on August 2nd and scanned in the same day by TNT.  

Now it has gone missing. No scan done since. They are trying to locate where on earth it is.

(And in fact on the tracking, there was somebody else's delivery details, of a package that was sent back on July 27th. And a photo of their door which is NOT mine!)  

so what is your course of redress here?

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I have found this whole thread rather interesting in that I have had so many different responses. However, I did go to Peterborough passport office (around 40 minutes away luckily) and went in with my documentation. It took two minutes to hand over everything. I had paid for the seven day service but got it back in four days. I also received my old passport back after ten days. Whilst I paid more, and whilst I may have lost months on my old passport, having my new blue one has given me so much piece of mind, and now I can book trips abroad next year without any worries. Sometimes piece of mind is much more valuable than anything else.

eskbanker

[Deleted User] said:

I have found this whole thread rather interesting in that I have had so many different responses.

Not really - one person posted duff information but promptly accepted that they'd got it wrong when it was pointed out, but everyone else was on the same page, i.e. the official line, except for your recollections about what you believe you heard on old TV programmes or the like.  Up to you if you chose to ignore the facts, but there's no need to keep making out that it's confusing, contradictory, etc!

jimi_man

Indeed. The rules are so unbelievably simple that I find it puzzling how there is so much confusion about it. 

Maybe there should be a sticky with a link to them which explains it very simply. 

ellieellie1955

bexoxo60 said:

I have found this whole thread rather interesting in that I have had so many different responses. However, I did go to Peterborough passport office (around 40 minutes away luckily) and went in with my documentation. It took two minutes to hand over everything. I had paid for the seven day service but got it back in four days. I also received my old passport back after ten days. Whilst I paid more, and whilst I may have lost months on my old passport, having my new blue one has given me so much piece of mind, and now I can book trips abroad next year without any worries. Sometimes piece of mind is much more valuable than anything else.

Thanks for the update!
Piece of mind is the most important in this life

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jimi_man said:

Indeed. The rules are so unbelievably simple that I find it puzzling how there is so much confusion about it. 

Maybe there should be a sticky with a link to them which explains it very simply. 

Thank you sooooo much for your sarcasm!!

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ellieellie1955 said:

bexoxo60 said:

I have found this whole thread rather interesting in that I have had so many different responses. However, I did go to Peterborough passport office (around 40 minutes away luckily) and went in with my documentation. It took two minutes to hand over everything. I had paid for the seven day service but got it back in four days. I also received my old passport back after ten days. Whilst I paid more, and whilst I may have lost months on my old passport, having my new blue one has given me so much piece of mind, and now I can book trips abroad next year without any worries. Sometimes piece of mind is much more valuable than anything else.

Thanks for the update!
Piece of mind is the most important in this life

Thank you for your understanding. It's nice to get a response that is not sarcastic or caustic.

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eskbanker said:

[Deleted User] said:

I have found this whole thread rather interesting in that I have had so many different responses.

Not really - one person posted duff information but promptly accepted that they'd got it wrong when it was pointed out, but everyone else was on the same page, i.e. the official line, except for your recollections about what you believe you heard on old TV programmes or the like.  Up to you if you chose to ignore the facts, but there's no need to keep making out that it's confusing, contradictory, etc!

Maybe not to you, but it is to me, and I know others who also find it confusing. I'm not a dumbwit either.

eskbanker

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eskbanker said:

[Deleted User] said:

I have found this whole thread rather interesting in that I have had so many different responses.

Not really - one person posted duff information but promptly accepted that they'd got it wrong when it was pointed out, but everyone else was on the same page, i.e. the official line, except for your recollections about what you believe you heard on old TV programmes or the like.  Up to you if you chose to ignore the facts, but there's no need to keep making out that it's confusing, contradictory, etc!

Maybe not to you, but it is to me, and I know others who also find it confusing. I'm not a dumbwit either.

My point throughout this thread was that there is clear and unambiguous guidance given via the authoritative official channels - I accept that it's possible for people to get confused if they choose to trawl around all sorts of other places, but was disagreeing with your assertion that you've had 'so many different responses' on this thread, where (with one brief exception) the information you've been given on here is both correct and consistent.