Passports

[vetran]

WGAS whose passports they are?

First time adult applicants require significantly more work.

however I suspect Goethe probably covers most of it.

...misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.

[Sysman]

https://www.gov.uk/overseas-passport...wing_new/adult

Which means doing without my passport for at least 6 fooking weeks. How has it reached this point?

Sad innit?

If you restart that page it offers Get a passport extension

If you’re living overseas, you can apply to extend your British passport for 12 months. Child passports can also be extended.

You won’t be charged any extra fees.

...

The service is by appointment only - phone your nearest British Embassy, Consulate or High Commission and select the ‘Consular Services’ option.

It's a pain in the rear.

[SantaClaus]

Can't issue passports, can't even play football. I'm proud to be part of a country where everything is great.

[scooterscot]

Can't issue passports, can't even play football. I'm proud to be part of a country where everything is great.

Don't feel so bad, you've got a financial hub that is the world's capital of dirty money.

[darmstadt]

2/5ths of the applications are from newly naturalised citizens.

Oh Well

Oh Well...

The figures show that the extra demand for passports reached 727,067 applications last month – 57,000 higher than the year before. The largest part of the increase involves the renewal of 399,000 adult passports, normally the most straightforward to be processed.

Mind you, they're making a profit

[vetran]

Oh Well...



Mind you, they're making a profit

so 328,000 are new passports then, something you do once in your life.

400,000 are renewals. something you do 4-5 times in your life once a decade.

that makes 3.28 times more passports issued new to each person renewing even if you take into account that some people have now put their renewal in early to anticipate the delay.

[EternalOptimist]

lets get this straight. the average bloke spends four weeks of his life having nooky, but spends 18 weeks waiting for passports ?


hell in a handcart, hell in a handcart

[Smartie]

It's a fiasco, but the standard time was always six weeks. Most people plan their foreign trips well in advance so leaving it until the last minute and then bitching about doesn't engender an awful lot of sympathy.

Plenty of countries require at least 6 months duration left on your passport when you leave their country so just apply for it a year before it's due again. If you can't stand the 10 or 15 quid that will cost you in a lost year then, well.

[Mich the Tester]

It's a fiasco, but the standard time was always six weeks.

No it wasn't; last time I had it renewed by the FCO/British Consulate it took a week. 10 years before that I had it renewed in a couple of hours at the passport office in Peterborough; travelling up to Peterborough was a bit of a pain but at least it got the job done.

Going without a passport for 6 weeks is not really much good for people who travel on business often, never mind those who want to travel for personal reasons.