Passport Office

[dellzeqq]

I went to the passport office. With my form. But no photograph. Hey! I thought, there's a photobooth in the foyer! And so I asked the functionary in the foyer if this photobooth, in the Passport Office foyer, provided the correct photographs. And he said that it did. And so I went over the road, got my four quid in change from a newsagents, smiled at the functionary, got in the booth, went snap snap snap snap, waited outside, smiled at the functionary, retrieved the photographs, smiled again, asked him what he thought and he said that they were invalid because I'd not removed my spectacles......

 

[Black Sheep]

he said that they were invalid because I'd not removed my spectacles......

liez, i'm wearing my glasses in my passport photo (had it a year now) it took a couple of attempts to not have any reflection in the lens tho but otherwise absolutely fine.

 

[dellzeqq]

liez, i'm wearing my glasses in my passport photo (had it a year now) it took a couple of attempts to not have any reflection in the lens tho but otherwise absolutely fine.

I know you're trying to cheer me up, but it's not working..........

 

[gary r]

Hahahahahahahahhehehehehehehhohohohohohohostoppityou'rekillingme.

5 (five) (that's Five (as in, FIVE))) times the PO approved my photo taken in their own Passport Photo booth. Which is exactly the same number of times the Pissport Office rejected it (forth renewal) because the "background wasn't white enough". Being plain white and all as it was.

After a LOT of complaining to the equally pisspoor civvy companies to which they outsource this crap, I threatened to judicially review them.

Next day without another word, a courier van arrived at my house. With my new passport in. Just my passport. Which was all it had in it (the driver explained over a mug of tea on my drive), as it had been driven by him from Glasgow to Surrey that morning, and was going straight back empty, as soon as he saw the bottom of the china.

That's where your tax money is going ladies and gentlemen.

And that was after they rejected my son's baby photo because he was "smiling". He was about 14 months old...

Squandering idiot oxygen and cash thieving kuntz.

Oh, and don't bother complaining, as you can only do it on the form they send you. Which they never did despite 3 times of asking, two of which were writing. And the Home Office never answered my subsequent letter.

"Unfit for purpose" doesn't even begin to describe it.

Oh and whilst we are talking about photo's i have about 20 hotos that were rejected by the PO,I had them taken at Jessops,To Light-to dark-a small shadow-reflection on the hair-etc etc !!!! Ive just phoned the passport office to check on progress & we faxed a letter last nigh "oh we dont need the letter now the passport has been issued" well i only recieved the letter yesterday!!!!

 

[Piemaster]

The 2 we've just had done for the kids went through no problem. Much to my surprise.

Bill Bryson tells a story that his wife had problems when applying for a US passport / citizenship. US authorities want a set of fingerprints and could not accept that she couldn't give a full set as she was missing a finger. By the time they had come to their senses the time limit for the application had run out....

 

[Arch]

Last time I renewed, the lady at the post office (a trainee, being supervised) wasn't sure about my photos, and advised me to get some more, just in case. The reason? My teeth were showing. Anyone who's met me will nderstand that this is not because I was grinning like an idiot, but because they just do. After a school career of being called Goofy, I'm kind of used to it. I suppose she was doing me a favour, rejecting them then, rather than have to go through the rigmarole of sending it back...

So now I have a photo with no teeth showing, with the resul that it looks very strained and bugger all like me. In fact my friend who renewed at the same time reckoned that both our photos look so strained that we could pass as each other, or any short haired brunette.

 

[Black Sheep]

You lot should think yerselves lucky. Our passport office here has closed and all renewals have to go through the Embassy in Paris. It's like dealing with the central tractor construction committee in the former German democratic Republic. But they're French!

what dealings with the central tractor construction committee in the former german democratic republic have you had?

 

[ChrisKH]

Hahahahahahahahhehehehehehehhohohohohohohostoppityou'rekillingme.

5 (five) (that's Five (as in, FIVE))) times the PO approved my photo taken in their own Passport Photo booth. Which is exactly the same number of times the Pissport Office rejected it (forth renewal) because the "background wasn't white enough". Being plain white and all as it was.

After a LOT of complaining to the equally pisspoor civvy companies to which they outsource this crap, I threatened to judicially review them.

Next day without another word, a courier van arrived at my house. With my new passport in. Just my passport. Which was all it had in it (the driver explained over a mug of tea on my drive), as it had been driven by him from Glasgow to Surrey that morning, and was going straight back empty, as soon as he saw the bottom of the china.

That's where your tax money is going ladies and gentlemen.

And that was after they rejected my son's baby photo because he was "smiling". He was about 14 months old...

Squandering idiot oxygen and cash thieving kuntz.

Oh, and don't bother complaining, as you can only do it on the form they send you. Which they never did despite 3 times of asking, two of which were writing. And the Home Office never answered my subsequent letter.

"Unfit for purpose" doesn't even begin to describe it.

He wasn't smiling. He had wind.