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Passports
BillieTheBot
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How long do they take to come through?
My friends are wanting me to go on holiday with them on the 3rd April for a week but I don't know if I'd get a passport in time?
Also, where do you get them from and how much do they cost?
My friends are wanting me to go on holiday with them on the 3rd April for a week but I don't know if I'd get a passport in time?
Also, where do you get them from and how much do they cost?
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Its all confusing me
ETA: Rach - do you know where we can get cheap flights? Thats all we have gotta pay for as my friend's Mum owns an apartment there.
We are thinking of going Tuesday 3rd April - Tuesday 10th April.
Its the Easter holidays.
You pick up a form from the post office (get a couple in case you screw one up) and then fill it in like the instructions tell you to. If you've had a passport before, or you have British parents and were born in the UK it's pretty simple. If you don't, it gets a bit more tricky.
Well I did anyway.. but I was at the British Consulate in New York and was flying home that evening and I'd lost it.
Take it to the post office they will check it over for you for a small fee, saves them sending you the form back because you've done something wrong.
And to answer your other question, go into a main post office and they will give you the forms. :thumb:
What?!?!?!?!?! :shocking:
I didn't realise it had gone up by so much.. I'm sure mine was £40 something a couple of years ago. I'm off to lock mine up in a safe place now!
The normal service usually takes about three weeks, so you should be fine with that, unless its your first passport, in which case you have to have a personal appointment anyway.
Not yet you don't.
Holiday is confirmed for first week of April. Proper excited :hyper: Just gotta sort flights out at end of week when everyone has the cash.
I'm gonna do the whole 'Check & Send' thing. Does anyone know how much extra it costs to do that?
Gonna pop down to my post office after my lecturer fills out his part of the form on Monday/Tuesday
It's 73 pound in total for the passport+check and send, and you should getit back within 2 weeks :thumb: Also if it's your first passport you need a FULL birth certificate to send off with the application.
It's £66 without the post office check and send, personally i think it's worth the few extra quids, saves them sending you the form back and delaying the process.
Talk about bloody faff i know.
Yeah, I don't know if it is a newish thing, but i had to.
I've only ever been abroad twice and the last time I went, I had my own passport. I was far too young the last time I went to even remember.
I've got my child's passport that ran out 2 years ago. I'm going to send that off.
URGH. It aint half costly. I've just had some photos done and they ended up costing me £8 because the stupid machine chopped the top of my head off!
Went to Max Speilman to get them done professionally and I have white bits all over my face! I look awful!
Yeah i think if you have had your own passport then you don't need to send your parents off, i was on my mums so my passport was technically my first passport of my own, that might have been why. If you go into a main post office they are really helpfull and tell you what you need.
So where you going on holiday then :thumb:
My mate's Mum owns an apartment there so she's nicely letting us stay there for a week. We are going for my friend's birthday.
Should be good. I'm proper excited as I haven't been on holiday since I was 16 and that was to Blackpool with my mates! :rolleyes:
Also, I've only ever been abroad twice, only once that I can remember so I'm looking forward to it although I'm not looking forward to flying :nervous:
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