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Buggers at passport office

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    #51
    Originally posted by Eirikur View Post
    Got it today 10 weeks and 4 days after sending in the application
    It's almost like a boom. Have a

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      #52
      I seem to remember that the passport office has this problem every summer too...

      A friend just got new passports for his kids, the standard service took about 7 days. They weren't British passports though....
      Free advice and opinions - refunds are available if you are not 100% satisfied.

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        #53
        Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
        Nah, it started under Labour:



        So if your child was basically born around that time then they're now reaching 16 and so need to get their own passport. This was a change bought in by the Labour government to make money from passports (oh, I believe parts of it were also semi-privatised.) This might also explain why all his kids have Irish passports
        The last of these passports would have expired in 2008.
        The material prosperity of a nation is not an abiding possession; the deeds of its people are.

        George Frederic Watts

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postman's_Park

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