Renewing Passports
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PaulRoberts
Active Member
You can track current wait times at this site. (and report how long yours took)
https://www.passportwaitingtime.co.uk/
It took a week for my first class signed for passport to get from london to liverpool, and they don't start the processing until your passport has arrived there even though you have done the online part.
The passports are delivered by TNT, you need to be home if it's a shred letterbox.
https://www.passportwaitingtime.co.uk/
It took a week for my first class signed for passport to get from london to liverpool, and they don't start the processing until your passport has arrived there even though you have done the online part.
The passports are delivered by TNT, you need to be home if it's a shred letterbox.
Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
interested for my partner whose passport has expired. Was it 70 something quid? Did you have much trouble with the photo ID or could they use an existing one? I heard that the DVSA and Passport are linked in some way now, so they can use your driving license photo if you don't want to get another one taken?
vickster
Squire
Unless it's changed, you can use passport photo on DL, not sure on other side as it needs to be no more than a month old.
Photo rules https://www.gov.uk/photos-for-passports
It's a bit more than £70
https://www.gov.uk/passport-fees
Friend of mine recently got hers in around 3 weeks (and that included having the photo confirmed by an authorised individual)
OP
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Chris S
Legendary Member
It cost me £82.50 to renew my passport, plus the postage to send in the old one. I sent it Special Delivery so that was another £6.85.
There wasn't an option to use my driving licence photo. It was the same as my old passport photo anyway.
I got my photo taken at a digital photo booth at the Post Office. It cost me about £9 and gave me four paper photos as well as a code to access the digital one. I entered this code when I filled in the online application and the photo appeared on it.
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Dag Hammar
Über Member
Reading comment No 22 above, by Chris S, it works out he paid £98.35 in total.
Now refer to my previous post No 7 from March this year.
I paid a total of £103.50. This included having my photo taken by the counter clerk at the P.O. and I did not have the bother of packing and sending and the passport was returned by secure, trackable post.
Alright, I paid £5.15 more for the service but it was entirely hassle-free and definitely worth it.
rogerzilla
Legendary Member
Black? BLACK?!
You're telling me Farage got debanked for this, and they're not even BLUE?!
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
YUP - forst thing I thought when I got mine
All that fuss to get a blue passport and they make it Black!!!!
can we just cancel the EU exit and go back to where we were - I'm sure the French will agree - they are our friends after all
rogerzilla
Legendary Member
To be fair, my old hardback 1980s passport also looks black under any lighting condition. The myth of the blue passport!
captain nemo1701
Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
I renewed mine about 3 weeks ago using the post office. I just had a text saying it'll be delivered this Friday...yaay 
T4tomo
Legendary Member
it might have expired by now fella, i'd check the date before booking a holiday
BrumJim
Forum Stalwart (won't take the hint and leave...)
This web site kept me sane. It gives you an accurate estimate based on current progress.
Applied for my son's passport something like 2 weeks before the holiday. Arrived on the Wednesday, left on the Saturday. Kept me sweating, but the passport office was very good at keeping me updated with progress.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I'd love to regale you with tales of bureaucratic incompetence, but my last renewal about 18 months ago went so smoothly that I can't remember a thing about it apart from the fact that it was easier than expected.
